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Re:Request for Technically Risky Projects on Sunday July 19, 2020 @01:27PM (#23890841)
I am sure you know about Solid.

Just in case: https://solidproject.org/

Re:Ways to make a web component on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:47PM (#23873313)
When I was a young web-developer, I joined the WHATWG group. And one of my few contributions was asking for custom HTML elements.

I actually developed a framework myself in LotusScript ;)

Re:Ways to make a web component on Friday July 17, 2020 @01:43PM (#23873274)
Problem here is CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. You might use variables, functions or attributes, styles, tags, that would interfere with other components.

That's why you want an additional layer like Angular2+ taking care of that.

Just saw this https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jgxd3d/twitter-insider-ac...

Means they had someone inside Twitter.

It seems like the devs at Twitter are clueless, how this happened.

The hackers could be deep in Twitters systems, eventually even have even someone working at Twitter, or it's a result of a new yet unknown password list or phishing attempt.

Re:The global fertility rate is falling on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @02:15AM (#23841919)
That's a good thing, because fertile soil depletion is going to be a huge problem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/sep/12/third-of...

Re:PGX: Write Postgres extensions in Rust instead of C on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @01:40AM (#23828886)
I think the comment was less about your code but rather about your v0.0.3 version number. I guess a v0.99 would imply more stability.

That's why lots of companies have switched to date based versioning, similar to Ubuntu and others.

Re:Hacking with environment variables on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @12:50AM (#23828639)
You can define any executable in the $BROWSER environment variable which will be executed whenever antigravity is imported.

You could execute a 'curl` which directly pipes into 'bash -c'.

Re:Try Linux on Monday May 25, 2020 @09:16AM (#23300680)
I hooe my update from 18.04 LTS ro 20.04 LTS will be the opposite of eventful.
Re:It is now 100 seconds to midnight on Thursday January 23, 2020 @11:02AM (#22128565)
Watching the press conference now. To be honest I am not surprised, that the clock was moved closer to midnight.

In my opinion the major issue is, that most people don't understand what is happening.

Re:I Was Tortured for Days at Guantanamo Bay on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:43AM (#22126744)
The word "painless" is just for the paper trail so people can start pointing at each other instead of taking responsibility. Means it will be covered up while people are still being held captive without a fair trial.

This needs to go to the International Court Of Justice in Den Haag, regardless if the court is being recognized by the US.

It's old Microsoft all over again!
Apache Drill is nice for querying structured files like CSV.

https://drill.apache.org/

I gave the tutorial using docker a try. The SQL like query language is OK until it gets to doing queries with where clauses on the data. Some form of help and auto completion would be great.

I recommend to align with the GQL standard: https://www.gqlstandards.org/

And Apache Tinkerpop. E.g. a RDF Sail implementation for Nebula. http://tinkerpop.apache.org/

Re:Rust DataBase Connectivity (RDBC) on Sunday January 12, 2020 @01:25PM (#22028013)
I think the initiative is great. I did lots of Java database development. Starting with JDBC, circumventing J2EE with Spring and Hibernate, and ending up doing JPA with Spring. I haven't seen anything similar in Rust.

Therefore I recommend looking at JPA for object relational mapping, and Spring Frameworks JdbcTemplate for things like basic CRUD support and JPA abstraction.

Re:Which Machines Do Computer Architects Admire? (2013) on Thursday January 09, 2020 @05:04AM (#21999904)
I admire AMDs Zen architecture.
Actually looking into independent power sources for small IoT sensor stations for a hobby project. I think to understand climate change better, we need more data.

Engineer here btw.

That's a cool idea.

I came across this link because I want to build cheap small sensor stations using LoRa to transmit data (gps location?, temp, humidity, air quality) to a central server.

Solar is not really an option because it needs to be cleaned once in a while.

Re:Myths about Minimum Viable Product on Tuesday December 31, 2019 @01:37AM (#21919388)
For me a MVP has only to do with project management and agile methods.

The moment a MVP leaves this area, it's a product. If people present it as MVP, they are doing a poor job or don't know what they are doing.

Re:Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:26AM (#21877204)
Thanks a lot! I love that you are using Rust.
Re:Show HN: Gameslab, a FPGA powered handheld game console on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:07AM (#21877136)
Congrats on getting it done.

Just mastering Ki-CAD is an accomplishment. I learned circuit design with P-CAD. And it was anything else but intuitive. Playing around with Ki-CAD reminded my of thise days.

Can you recommend a good Ki-CAD tutorial?

Can you elaborate a little bit on the mistakes you made and what led to the choices you made? E.g. first time read about Das U-Boot.

If original author agrees, I can dockerize it.
I think what they meant was making training less costly for their customers. It's a lost opportunity, when pilots train instead of sitting behind the wheel/stick flying goods or customers around the world.
In regards of profitable, I hope you also consider internal cloud computing usage as it were used by an external party.

E.g. if stuff like AlphaGo, Youtube, or the Search Engine used tons of cloud computing resources you should not count it as no profit made (actually loss because of power consumption, server housing, networking, ...), regardless if those cloud resources were anyways unused. Then it's up to your colleagues then to make the profit.

MapR-FS is a great distributed file system, which solves tons of challenges out of the box. E.g. HA, POSIX, NFS, multi tenancy, multi-temprature, co-location, and sexurity.
Re:A New Search Engine on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:08PM (#21717657)
We need a smarter search.

One that is based on analyzing the content of a page then on it's page rank.

Self speaking that it has to be open source.

Apache SOLR would be a good starting point.

Re:Is Plagiarism Wrong? on Sunday November 24, 2019 @07:20AM (#21619969)
I agree fully. I left academia because of exactly this reason.

While academics have high morale on not stealing more than four words in the same sequence, they don't have any issue putting their names first on some engineers idea.

Re:Diagram.codes on Sunday November 24, 2019 @06:55AM (#21619850)
I recommend taking a look at https://sequencediagram.org/

I've been using it in various projects, since it only requires a small text file and only a web browser to view those diagrams.

Would be awesome if this diagrams could make it into Markdown.

Re:Is AMD Returning to Open-Source BIOS/Coreboot Support? on Monday October 07, 2019 @04:30PM (#21185616)
Found this article while looking if Libreboot is supporting AMD Ryzen for my DIY homelab / NAS box. Found an outdated HN article too and thought this might interest someone on HN.

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