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> People use it for legacy reasons

This is so incredibly wrong it must be a troll.


There is principle of the matter and then there are exceptions. We say that women can give birth. That holds true in principle even if there are those who can't due to biological failings.


But to say "you can never be a real woman, because you can't give birth" would be very silly, given how many "real women" can't. And yet that doesn't stop the terfs.


I had an idea for a new markup language. I'm thinking of being cheeky and calling 'Yet Another Markup Language'. Hope it catches on!


But will v1.0 parse the country code for Norway as a boolean? If not, get out of here, you amateur.


No.


It's simply too good


Are we on bizarro HN?

No, you ask the DB to EXPLAIN itself to you.


Next you'll be telling me that instead of asking AI to find my bug I should just use print statements or a debugger to observe the state of my program over time to find where it deviates from expectations and figure it out that way.


That goes for all (active) software really. Otherwise people call it obsolete or abandoned.


>the man The man, right. Not the father.


Check his profile.

> about: I believe in the creation of a machine god

Sounds about right.


I wonder if he’s a machine himself?


>fur iphone

Science has gone too far!

Seriously, thanks for pointing this one out. I haven't heard of it before.


Terrible auto complete, thanks for the notification, I was able to correct still.

So furiphone (fxl1) and hopefully nothing related to "iphone".


No it doesn't. Think invites to private torrent sites.


> Also when doing joins its cleaner to use the table_name.id or alias.id then table_name.table_name_id or alias.table_name_id or whatever else besides id is used However, using 'table_name.table_name_id' and then having another table with an FK that references it with the same name i.e. 'table_2.table_name_id' allows you to use a shorthand 'USING' clause instead of 'ON' in databases that support it.


Great point thanks for calling USING out. Since you end up putting table_name_id for FKs it totally makes sense to just use that in the main table. Seems I am just so accustomed to having id as the default PK over the years it become habit (my DB professor was an old time IBM-er who preached all tables will have an ID). With auto complete in just about every tool these days and ORM limitations improving will need to update my thinking on this reality. 95% of the time living in the MSSQL world so USING is not something that can even be used (I don’t think).


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