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cholmon··on HeidiSQL – GUI client for MariaDB, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and PostgreSQL
One of my favorite features of HeidiSQL is its "Find text in database", see https://www.heidisql.com/forum.php?t=1006

It'll search through all text fields of all tables of whichever database you specify for a given string, and displays a nice per-table summary for each matching record. I haven't found anything like this in any other DB client.

cholmon··on Most of What We Read on the Internet is Written by Insane People
This parallels civic/political engagement in real life.

It's tough to get lurkers (like me) to speak up and shift the discussion when the emotional cost of doing so - arguing, being downvoted, getting defensive, being ridiculed - seems to make the effort simply not worthwhile for the individual. Not only on the web, but also in the office, at Thanksgiving dinner, at a cookout, etc.

cholmon··on Ask HN: What's the largest amount of bad code you have ever seen work?
Wow. What is the average salary for an Oracle developer doing this sort of work?
cholmon··on Ask HN: What is the best personal journaling solution?
http://jrnl.sh is great for minimalism, if you're comfortable with the command line.
cholmon··on Do Our Questions Create the World?
Depends on what you mean by "know".
cholmon··on Vue.js: the good, the meh, and the ugly
Agreed. Luckily "Better TypeScript inference" is on the roadmap for Vuex 4.

https://github.com/vuejs/roadmap#vuex-4x

cholmon··on Stripe Home
From the article,

> Under the hood, Home is built on the same technology as our user-facing products (such as the Dashboard)...

Anyone know what technology that is?

cholmon··on Lessons from “The Profit”
I'm interested, eye opening in what way(s)?
cholmon··on GitFinder – Use Git on Mac Right from Finder
“Buy” button at the bottom of the page, $24.95.
cholmon··on Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'
I recall reading somewhere that the old testament "Adversary" view could be interpreted as Satan being less of an antagonist who is directly opposed to God, and more of a celestial prosecutor, whose role is to ensure that those who are deemed faithful (by God) truly are. Prosecutors aren't evil people who are opposed to the Judge, but rather are important instruments in ensuring, perhaps imperfectly, that justice is applied.

Almost like a divine unit testing framework: if there are critical weaknesses, please help me uncover them ASAP. Hence God's willingness to let Satan make Job's life miserable.

cholmon··on Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught (1996) [pdf]
1) Lecturing - Every lecture should make only one main point - Never run overtime - Relate to your audience - Give them something to take home

2) Blackboard Technique - Make sure the blackboard is spotless. - Start writing on the top left-hand corner

3) Publish the Same Result Several Times

4) You Are More Likely to Be Remembered by Your Expository Work

5) Every Mathematician Has Only a Few Tricks

6) Do Not Worry about Your Mistakes

7) Use the Feynman Method

8) Give Lavish Acknowledgments

9) Write Informative Introductions

10) Be Prepared for Old Age

cholmon··on Homebrew 1.4.0
https://www.patreon.com/homebrew
cholmon··on A Simple Fix for Our Massive Inequality Problem
FTA, "It’s called a social wealth fund, a pool of investment assets in some ways like the giant index or mutual funds already popular with retirement savings accounts or pension funds, but one owned collectively by society as a whole. One that paid dividends not to the few, or even just to the shrinking middle class lucky enough to have their savings invested, but to everyone."
cholmon··on Ask HN: What are best tools for web scraping?
I recently stumbled across http://go-colly.org/, that looks well thought out and simple to use. It seems like a slimmed down Go version of Scrapy.
cholmon··on Craniopagus Twins Share a Brain and See Out of Each Others Eyes
Do they share the same dreams? Can one be awake while the other is asleep, and if so, can she experience the dream, or parts of it, while being fully conscious?
cholmon··on ACME Support in Apache HTTP Server Project
I'm curious how renewals will be handled. According to https://github.com/icing/mod_md/wiki#no-auto-restart-when-st...

"...you have to manually restart httpd for any certificate changes to take effect."

It's easy enough to have a daily cronjob that just reloads Apache unconditionally, but that feels dirty.

cholmon··on The Logic of Risk Taking
"skin in the game"
cholmon··on Ask HN: Better HTTP client library for PHP
http://docs.guzzlephp.org/en/stable/testing.html
cholmon··on Work at the edge of your range
I disagree. The pain of maintaining crap code, especially crap code that you wrote yourself, is a very effective teacher. What better way to level-up your programming skill than to build things the wrong/expensive/slow way and then live with the consequences?
cholmon··on Alaska’s thawing soils are now pouring carbon dioxide into the air
my first thought as well
cholmon··on Ask HN: What's your eclipse story?
Sat in my front yard with my wife and kids. Got a little over a minute of totality, which was far more impressive than I anticipated. It looked just like the pictures, with the white corona all around...but seeing it with my own naked eyes was a major "holy shit" moment. Very surreal.
cholmon··on Unique xml-based content management system
"SoftXMLCMS is written in JavaScript and requires IIS with support of Microsoft Classic ASP."
cholmon··on Ask HN: Switched from MacOS to Windows for Daily Driver. Any Advice? Tip/tricks?
A few tools I'm fond of on windows:

http://cmder.net/ http://www.heidisql.com/ http://www.sublimetext.com/

cholmon··on Bryan Johnson invests $100M in Kernel to unlock the power of the human brain
...what?
cholmon··on How Only Being Able to Use Logic to Make Decisions Destroyed a Man’s Life
Reminds me of this guy...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage

Interesting tidbit about recovery: "A report of Gage's physical and mental condition shortly before his death implies that his most serious mental changes were temporary, so that in later life he was far more functional, and socially far better adapted, than in the years immediately following his accident. A social recovery hypothesis suggests that Gage's work as a stagecoach driver in Chile fostered this recovery by providing daily structure which allowed him to regain lost social and personal skills."

I wonder if Elliot from OP had the opportunity for a similar recovery.

cholmon··on Ask HN: What was the first platform you ever wrote code for?
Ti-85 in high school. TI-BASIC at first, then a friend showed me games built for z-shell (Z80 assembly) and my mind was blown, started learning C and assembly.
cholmon··on What is “Life” about?
As Karl Popper said, all life is problem solving.
cholmon··on Julie Rubicon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump
cholmon··on Ask HN: Do you click on webpage ads?
Not intentionally
cholmon··on Ask HN: Where do I go to learn Modern PHP?
http://www.phptherightway.com
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