tomatofrank

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software engineer in nyc
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Comment · 9 months ago
Depends on your use case but if you want to avoid the syncing problem altogether you can federate queries to Postgres either via the native Postgres connector or over a JDBC bridge
Comment · 1 year ago
Very pumped to see how this improves the experience in VSCode.

I've been revisiting my editing setup over the last 6 months and to my surprise I've time traveled back to 2012 and am once again really enjoying Sublime Text. It's still by far the most performant editor out there, on account of the custom UI toolkit and all the incredibly fast indexing/search/editing engines (everything's native).

Not sure how this announcement impacts VSCode's UI being powered by Electron, but having the indexing/search/editing engines implemented in Go should drastically improve my experience. The editor will never be as fast as Sublime but if they can make it fast enough to where I don't notice the indexing/search/editing lag in large projects/files, I'd probably switch back.

Comment · 2 years ago
You like thrillers? You like non-fiction? You like absolute page-turning non-fiction thrillers?

Check out "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston - it's about the Ebola virus and a strain that wound up in a primate facility just outside of Washington, D.C.

Stephen King called the first chapter "one of the most horrifying things I've read in my whole life." It's so true. Preston caught some flak from CDC scientists for sensationalizing the effects of hemorrhagic viruses, but I think he painted a fairly accurate picture for the layman in all of us: they turn your flesh into soup.

Comment · 2 years ago
Show me five use cases of offline web apps and I'll show you a liar ;)
Comment · 4 years ago
Do you have an example query?
Comment · 4 years ago
I'll check it out!
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
The evidence supporting this is the 4 YouTube videos at the top of the list, followed by 3 of those 4 YouTube videos on page 2 (LOL).
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Haha yeah, I was wondering when someone would suggest this. Last night, after I got the result back immediately from DuckDuckGo and Bing, I returned to Google and added quotes around the lyric itself, and it returned the right result immediately.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, Google is still my default browser, though I haven't used other engines enough to develop a strong opinion here.

I'll add that I could have been more clever with my query. For instance, if I surround the lyric in quotes, Google returns the right result first.

Original query: like you didn't care I don't know why lyrics r&b

Improved query: "like you didn't care I don't know why" lyrics r&b

At the end of the day, I'm not frustrated with Google. I use it every day and it saves me lots of time. It just amuses me that in some cases, other engines that probably use simpler search algorithms are objectively better. And in this case, I think it's fair to expect Google to produce the right result on page 1.

Comment · 4 years ago
"like you didn't care I don't know why lyrics r&b" was my query
Comment · 4 years ago
fuck yeah they did :P
Comment · 4 years ago
Oh that's interesting, TIL.

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