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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2022) on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:47PM (#33820704)
Lightmeter | YC W22 | Berlin

Senior Back-end Software Engineer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lightmeter/jobs/H97vAO...

Lead DevOps Systems Engineer: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/lightmeter/jobs/PB5qMl...

We use a wide of tools technologies, such as Go, Python and Javascript, and SQLite, Postgres and Kafka.

Re:The Dog Bunny Puzzle Solved with Prolog on Saturday September 24, 2022 @04:50PM (#32966437)
Maybe a bit late in times of twitters and instantaneous replies, but I decided to spend some of my weekend refreshing my (still very basic) Prolog-fu and chose the Dog Bunny Puzzle [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32884467

Re:Code in Database vs. Code in Application on Monday July 11, 2022 @02:26AM (#32052872)
Interestingly when one uses SQLite (or virtually any embedded/serverless[1] database engine), the code is always executed within the application process, regardless of being written in pure SQL of by the hosting language, making the dichotomy irrelevant.

Not having support for stored procedures can be used by some as an argument against SQLite, but the fact is that store procedures conceptually make no sense in embedded databases if you can extend the query language with the host code.

One big issue I've seen on SQLite is that if you add an index or view on an expression which uses code from the host process, no other application will be able to read data from the database file, unless you have such code in an extension that can be read by such applications.

[1] https://www3.sqlite.org/matrix/serverless.html