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Re:Is TypeScript actually worth It? on Friday January 13, 2023 @03:17AM (#34365197)
(A bit )off topic - chatGPT managed to infer your email address based on this comment. Required some hints though - most likely due to my lack of experience (first try). I was curious to see how it can improve indexing in general.
Re:Ask HN: Meta Question Does FAANG Become Maang or Manga? on Thursday October 28, 2021 @06:00PM (#29032598)
You’re absolutely right, as myowz pointed out, it was ignored with G/Alphabet, but it would funnily confusing to say “He works for a MANGA (or MAAAN) company” to someone…
I once used FDW to synchronize Microsoft SQL server DB with PostreSQL, after setting up, It was just a matter of a single UPDATE to sync quite complex data across systems. It isn’t a perfect way, but given there was no public interface in MS SQL backed application it was a pretty effective solution.
Re:Postgres gets support for upsert on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:48AM (#9510315)
Yes, MySQL: ALTER TABLE t1 ADD COLUMN `count` SMALLINT(6) NOT NULL AFTER `lastname`
Re:Postgres gets support for upsert on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:46AM (#9510309)
I know, but when I look at a table structure in PgAdmin, all newly added columns appear at the end, of course this can handled properly in select col2, col1... , or by creating a view, but by any other way as this wiki [1] page says. But during development, ability to create logical column order is somehow important to me.

[1]https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Alter_column_position

Re:Postgres gets support for upsert on Friday May 08, 2015 @02:31AM (#9510261)
I know it doesn't matter to some developers out there, but for me, the only thing left is the ability to add a column after another one. Even if it's only logical order, it's easier for me to read a table structure when fields are ordered nicely.
Re:Show HN: Airtable, a real-time spreadsheet-database hybrid on Friday September 26, 2014 @05:17PM (#8374922)
This really looks very nice!

After defining 3 tables with related records, some thoughts:

- Trying to enter some records, I pressed space in the checkbox column, "zoom view" appeared instead of changing the value (enter changes the value), I understand that this is a convention in your system, but what's the point of the zoome checkbox? :)

- Detail view shows checkbox columns, as checkbox - name and another value-changing checkbox below, waste of space - record with 4 column takes almost all modal window.

- Changing value of checkbox with enter, disallows submitting detail view, so there is no submit, but then I cannot simply discard changes made in the detail view, when I press ESC - data still changes. To revert changes, I had to press ctrl-z several times.

- I noticed that of the entered characters changed to ?, I'm not shure how cannot replicate it, but entering some strange character, and clicking around does the trick.

- I think you should consider adding standard spreadsheet/browser keyboard shortcuts: F2, alt+down.

- Make page up / page down work.

- Adding related record, could automatically open new detail window - creating unnamed row seem pointless.

Good luck!

Re:Ask HN: Have you remapped the Caps Lock key? [Poll] on Friday December 27, 2013 @04:08AM (#6970003)
As a Total Commander addict, I cannot believe some is still copying files using drag and drop, manually selecting files etc. There are some alternatives for a Mac as well.

As far as remapping goes, I've remapped my right ctrl to delete. I delete a lot, and reaching to the far right corner of the keyboard was a pain.

Re:PHP Application Server based on pthreads on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @06:15AM (#6443612)
There is an error message after hitting the download button: No mirror defined for download "Windows" [1]

[1]http://www.appserver.io/dl/Windows

Edit: Shouldn't be the case event if it isn't available yet :)

Re:Yandex Browser on Monday October 01, 2012 @09:06AM (#4596724)
437(chrome) vs 402(yandex) PS yandex detected as chrome 19