Recent submissions

Comment · 3 years ago
> Postgres isn’t in any sense struggling to attract new users – there are plenty of 22 year olds defaulting to it today.

Yes, I do use Postgres for a lot of my self-hosted apps. For PHP applications, though, I keep using MariaDB as their default/only DB.

Comment · 3 years ago
Then what would the just right "foot shaped" shoes like?
Comment · 3 years ago
The article doesn't mention how to resolve string manipulation problem involving locales.
Comment · 3 years ago
After I digged into related articles on the link, it seems like the holy grail to the config files dilemma is to just hard-code desired settings in the source code. However, it also means that users (especially using binary packages) are stuck with settings from the distro.

If you truly needs user-configurable setting, maybe TOML is for you.

Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Yikes! Applying "all related" answers to the original question is mostly nonsense unless you're lucky.
Comment · 3 years ago
Looks like ChatGPT agrees to the forum thread one way or another...
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I wasn't surprised then...
Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
And when Quora also shows answers from "related" (but IMO not strictly related to the original question in question) by default, I think these answers are mostly incorrect when being applied to the original question.
Comment · 3 years ago
Smells like that someone else were given superuser...
Comment · 3 years ago
But what if that vendor product B got crippled (like recently Unity and today JIRA) for most of features that people deemed essential, or even vanished? People who is less fortunate has to switch to more cost-effective solutions (it may include F(L)OSS ones).

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton