strokirk's comments

On: HTML First

[strokirk]

Visual iconography doesn't need to transmit the same ideas to different users, it's there to reduce space taken but still be identifiable to an experienced user of the tool.

On: Was Rust Worth It?

[strokirk]

I would have needed this when I started learning Rust! All my early programs were object soups.

On: Mypy 1.6

[strokirk]

Pyright doesn’t really support a lot of big libraries, like Django, so if you want to use them you’re out of luck.

On: I went to 50 different dentists: almost all gave a...

[strokirk]

Wow. In Sweden, ”frequent” would be every second year.

On: Remote work on HN: Who is hiring? – 69% jobs in 20...

[strokirk]

Why would in-office work lead to more burnout, as opposed to remote work? I’m thinking that remote work would be much more conducive to burnout - nothing to stop you working too long, no segregation between work environment and home…

On: PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language

[strokirk]

What made you think the goal is to not know SQL?

On: PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language

[strokirk]

What countless alternatives? I can’t think of many, and believe me, I’ve looked hard!

On: PRQL: Pipelined Relational Query Language

[strokirk]

It’s certainly not a feature. A lot of important SQL usage is ad-hoc queries, and they are more annoying to type than they should be.

[mulmen → strokirk]

I don’t understand how changing the order of the clauses makes a query easier to type.

[spullara → mulmen]

If you have auto-complete it can see what table you are using and complete the column names. Starting with SELECT it could be any column in the database.

[mulmen → spullara]

Huh. I have been doing this for like 15 years and never have a problem. Text editors like Sublime Text suggest names based on the content of the file. SQL Developer, SQLWorkbench, and DataGrip all seem to handle it just fine.

[spullara → mulmen]

It will suggest names that aren't in the table you are going to query unless it is psychic.

[mulmen → spullara]

It is psychic in the sense that it makes educated guesses based on previous entries and the current database and schema. This is the same kind of educated guess it would make with a table name.

[nhinck2 → spullara]

I see this complaint stated over and over again, how hard is it really to type SELECT * FROM x a and then go back?

[spullara → nhinck2]

Is there any downside at all to putting FROM first?

[mulmen → spullara]

Disrupting decades of inertia to placate a small humber of unskilled novices.

On: Why don't we get our drinking water by taking salt...

[strokirk]

Which area is it more expensive in, then?

On: LazyVim

[strokirk]

Just because it’s predefined doesn’t mean it’s suboptimal. On the contrary - anything I do myself likely has less about of thought and consideration from an officially published configuration.

[majkinetor → strokirk]

That is just not true. Anything not customized to your specific need and context is certainly more complex and bloated. "Officially published" is a common falacy (resorting to authority)