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Re:Ask HN: Why does visual programming suck?
on Sunday June 04, 2017 @09:13PM (#14484686)
SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) does a good job of this I think. SSIS is made for manipulating data flows. The flow of data happens to be very well represented in many cases by visual network flow diagrams. Most of the common patterns of data flow are implemented as drag and drop widgets.
That said, as necessary, you can do pretty much anything in that environment as code if you want. The best thing about the language, though, is that /if/ you go down the path of coding something out instead of using a common pattern, it forces you to ask "Why am I doing something out of the norm here?" Sometimes you have a valid reason. Sometimes you don't and that question course corrects you back into a maintainable architecture. It's a very niche language (even mostly vendor locked down), but I think it's a great example of a visual programming environment that's mostly great to work in.
Re:Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?
on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:38AM (#12920211)
My wife is an instructor at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Yesterday all faculty/staff/students got an email about a girl who was assaulted. She was walking down a street close to the university. Two white men (one in a Trump hat) pulled up next to her in a car, hopped out, hit her over the head with something then stole her hijab and wallet. http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/crime/2016/11/09/ul-...
Re:Show HN: SqlSmash, A productivity plugin for Sql Server Management ...
on Thursday March 06, 2014 @02:45PM (#7356099)
RedGate has a ton of amazing tools. RedGate SQL Prompt hugely improves query composition.
Re:O(n) Sorting Algorithm: Quantum Bogosort
on Saturday July 06, 2013 @03:27PM (#5999773)
I wish I'd seen some of this before I took a discrete optimization course. I would have loved to submit some of this.
Re:Show HN: Indoor Location you can try yourself
on Thursday August 16, 2012 @04:51PM (#4393597)
Can you guys give any insight into how you're combining the sensor data? I'm a newb on the topic, but I was trying to do something similar in a different domain and got stuck trying to make a kalman filter. I tried to get an EE friend to explain them to me, but I couldn't get it.
Re:Bored in grad school? Learn Hadoop
on Wednesday May 09, 2012 @01:10PM (#3949487)
It's the start of the Summer, I'm in my 2nd year MS-CS. I began a simulation last night at 9PM that's still running (usually 14 hour turnaround). I just got in, sat at my desk and thought "I'm bored, guess I'll check HN" and THIS is what I see.