The OFFICIAL programming thread

I think I must run the most expensive (per-user) accounting system on the planet. It’s completely custom built, multi-user, multi-language, multi-currency and, now since Chhunly does more important work, has exactly one user (me).

In previous years, I fell for the mistake of enhancing it whilst I was actually doing my end of year taxes but, since I prefer programming to accounting, it just meant I lost weeks doing stuff I enjoyed while my tax deadline drew closer without any real progress. Now I wait until after my taxes are done and fix things that irritated me during the previous weeks. To that end, I just implemented dark mode:

I could probably just use an off the shelf solution (or even just a spreadsheet) but one of the technologies it uses is something I use professionally so it’s good to ride the bleeding edge of that tech and experiment with it / learn. And it’s nice having the freedom to make it do whatever I want. For example, the number of web apps that insist on blowing out the back of my retinas at 11pm because they still don’t support dark mode in 2024 is too damn high.

Jam

Probably 30 years ago I set up an Excel workbook which has served me well to this day.

I have an accountant, a necessary evil for the business, and I just send him the workbook each year around the end of February or towards the middle of March.

I suppose if I were a programmer I would have looked for a more difficult way to get the job done. ;-)

Gators1

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I think I must run the most expensive (per-user) accounting system on the planet. It’s completely custom built, multi-user, multi-language, multi-currency and, now since Chhunly does more important work, has exactly one user (me).

In previous years, I fell for the mistake of enhancing it whilst I was actually doing my end of year taxes but, since I prefer programming to accounting, it just meant I lost weeks doing stuff I enjoyed while my tax deadline drew closer without any real progress. Now I wait until after my taxes are done and fix things that irritated me during the previous weeks. To that end, I just implemented dark mode:

I could probably just use an off the shelf solution (or even just a spreadsheet) but one of the technologies it uses is something I use professionally so it’s good to ride the bleeding edge of that tech and experiment with it / learn. And it’s nice having the freedom to make it do whatever I want. For example, the number of web apps that insist on blowing out the back of my retinas at 11pm because they still don’t support dark mode in 2024 is too damn high.

What’s the blurred out line? Porn subscriptions?

Was just wrestling more than I should have to with a simple MongoDb query when I was reminded by how much I dislike MongoDB in general. Actually, I’m not a huge fan of document databases to begin with but they’ve certainly got their very specific use cases. They aren’t a replacement though for relational DBs in 99% of normal enterprise software. Unfortunately, I chose a software stack that was hot in 2014 that was based on MongoDB which was also hot a decade ago and now I’m fucking stuck with it unless I want to spend weeks on a rewrite.

When I was first exposed to the MongoDB hype, lets say I was highly skeptical. After years of using now, I’m certain that whatever dubious time savings it gives you are wasted in working around its issues. Mongo seems to be on the nose now maybe in part because they are trying to squeeze money out of its users but at least in part because for most people it was a wasted fucking investment based on bullshit marketing lies:

Nemil Dalal / Aug 29, 2017

The Marketing Behind MongoDB

Countless NoSQL databases competed to be the database of choice. MongoDB's marketing strategy helped it become the winner.

the majority of application software that developers write will be in use cases that are better fits for MongoDB and other NoSQL technology

MongoDB’s CTO feels that nearly 90% of database installations would benefit from switching to MongoDB.

I fucking tech marketing.

Jam

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

Gators1

@Hog welcome to my world but it’s worse by eleventy. There are hundreds of tools out there all with hungry sales reps trying to tell you that their shit will change the world and the competing tools are terrible. The chart below was made to show how crazy it is, but the crazy thing is each box isn’t even all of them for that category.

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@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

I had to re-read the line you quoted 3 times before I saw the problem.

I drop/miss words way too often in my writing. I read a how-to book on speed reading in my early teens and I think it permanently broke me because unfortunately I seem to write the same way I read - leaving out chunks that can be inferred from the surrounding words.

Lob12

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

Gators1

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

Damn you are a masochist. Actually listen to Putin…read Jam… I scroll past without reading anything and then post the frog.

Kilemall

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

He constructed it correctly.

Kilemall

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

I actually read them because it’s same speed comprehension for me. He makes points that are valid but more complex then USA Today level writing, but a LOT of you are missing it.

Lob12

@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I speed read everything Jam posts and it’s been serving me well so far!

I actually read them because it’s same speed comprehension for me. He makes points that are valid but more complex then USA Today level writing, but a LOT of you are missing it.

You can start talking shit after you watch the Tucker interview, poser!

Pakoon

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

@Hog said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

I fucking tech marketing.

When one is filled with hate, sometimes words go missing.

I bet that I can read your mind though! ;-)

I had to re-read the line you quoted 3 times before I saw the problem.

I drop/miss words way too often in my writing. I read a how-to book on speed reading in my early teens and I think it permanently broke me because unfortunately I seem to write the same way I read - leaving out chunks that can be inferred from the surrounding words.

I have the same problem.

Gators1

There’s a new job opening at Google if anyone is looking…

No Tech For Apartheid on Twitter

https://time.com/6964364/exclusive-no-tech-for-apartheid-google-workers-protest-project-nimbus-1-2-billion-contract-with-israel/

Gators1

The birth of the relational database and SEEEEEQEL!!!

The Birth of SQL & the Relational Database

Jam

So . . . .

SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. It was initially called “Structured English Query Language” (SEQUEL) and pronounced “sequel”, though it later had to have it’s name shortened to “Structured Query Language” (SQL) due to trademark issues. It was created to supplant the then popular QUEL database language, and the name “sequel” was meant as a pun (it was the sequel to QUEL). However, this leads to the big question – was language still called “sequel” after the name change?

Answer here:

Pronouncing SQL: S-Q-L or Sequel?

So, it turns out that My Ess-Cue-Elle is the more official way to pronounce MySQL. We work with the Oracle MySQL team a couple times a year and that is how they say it.

Tazz

@Jam said in The OFFICIAL programming thread:

So . . . .

SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald Chamberlin and Raymond Boyce. It was initially called “Structured English Query Language” (SEQUEL) and pronounced “sequel”, though it later had to have it’s name shortened to “Structured Query Language” (SQL) due to trademark issues. It was created to supplant the then popular QUEL database language, and the name “sequel” was meant as a pun (it was the sequel to QUEL). However, this leads to the big question – was language still called “sequel” after the name change?

Answer here:

Pronouncing SQL: S-Q-L or Sequel?

So, it turns out that My Ess-Cue-Elle is the more official way to pronounce MySQL. We work with the Oracle MySQL team a couple times a year and that is how they say it.

Depends on its pronoun

Jam

I suppose in a way that is true.

It can be My Ess Q El, but it can be your My Sequel, or vice-versa, lol,

Kilemall

It’s used interchangeably in my department.

Tazz

@Kilemall I’m sure this news is making its rounds in the medical field. How is this even possible?

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/houston-hospital-halts-liver-and-kidney-transplants-after-learning-a-doctor-manipulated-some-records/