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hotdamnson··on British woman undertakes trip from London to Edinburgh using only £2 local buses
I did something like that going from Sao Paulo (Brazil) to Leticia (Colombia) following the coast toward north and later taking amazon river cargo ships. It took me about 5 months, transit days about 2 months.
hotdamnson··on Work life balance is impossible
I mitigate the imbalance by minimalism.

For example I spend only about 20% of what I make (after taxes). It's not that difficult for IT guys and remote world we live in right now.

hotdamnson··on Are we on information overload? (2012)
It was a question back in 2012. Today nobody has any doubts anymore.
hotdamnson··on Notes on Saudi Arabia
It's worth noting that the actual Saudis make up only 62% of the country population(according to wikipedia). The rest are mostly semi-slaves / slaves from Indian subcontinent / south east Asia. It's not as extreme as cases of Oman or UAE but still noticeable.
hotdamnson··on How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
I just posted the essence of the query, add

Where r.id = :repo

and you will have the same thing.

hotdamnson··on How PlanetScale Boost serves SQL queries faster
Why do these new big thing databases make SQL look like some witchcraft?

Here is some proper SQL query:

SELECT DISTINCT

       r.id,  

       r.owner_id,  

       r.name,  

       COUNT(r.id) OVER (PARTITION BY r.id) AS COUNT  

  FROM repository r  

  JOIN star s ON s.repository_id = r.id  
ORDER BY 4 DESC;
hotdamnson··on Tell HN: Employers are not desperate to hire developers
I don't think that 'normal' tech / consulting / software house companies have those. It's more of a big corp thing.
hotdamnson··on What the Great Inflation (1965-1982) taught us
What history can actually teach us is that things that never happened before happen all the time. This is so valid for anything related to global finance.
hotdamnson··on Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)
North east of Spain and south west of France properties prices will skyrocket now.
hotdamnson··on Google is shutting down Stadia
Google search when?
hotdamnson··on Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
December* and yes
hotdamnson··on Lua, a Misunderstood Language (2021)
If the Korean child is born on the 31st of December at 23:59 it will be 2 years old and 2 minutes old at the same time.
hotdamnson··on I’m a productive programmer with a memory of a fruit fly
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana
hotdamnson··on Why Figma Is Worth $20B and Other Observations from the Adobe Acquisition
Would it be actually legal for the Figma owners to sell the company to Adobe, create the new company, say Figma2.0 and create similar(better) product from scratch, also advertise it as creators of original Figma come up with Figma2.0?
hotdamnson··on Amazon’s $23M book about flies (2011)
Here in Thailand, there were cases where the shop sent a package containing cash amount paid by the customer because they didn't have the item they sold. This was an attempt to avoid some negative repercussions from the platform they were selling on (Shoppe, Lazada). Totally mental.
hotdamnson··on Ask HN: Does anyone else think SQL needs help?
This is a very poorly written SQL.. Try some modern syntax: select DISTINCT sale_person_id, sale_person_name, max(no_products_sold) over (partition by sale_person_id) AS max_products_sold, commission_percentage, sales_department from no_products_sold;