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hzy

70 karma · joined January 3, 2012

Web Hacker + Amateur Photographer
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hzy··on Boston Cab Dispatch queues up to sue Uber
When the established industry starts suing you, you know that they're starting to become scared of your disruption.
hzy··on Show HN: After $30M in Sales We've Switched Our Business Model
I don't understand why you've linked to your companys' landing page, which doesn't have any association to your title.
hzy··on Show HN: After $30M in Sales We've Switched Our Business Model
The contentless link and the spammy other comments here make me think this is someone gaming the system to get free advertising.
hzy··on "River" detection in text
justified alignment has a time and a place (newspapers), but for the most part I agree, the differing line lengths make keeping your place far easier.
hzy··on Grove.io shutting down
I don't know about your friend, but I'm happily using the latest version of Sparrow with no issues whatsoever, maybe he has some other unrelated problems...
hzy··on Show HN: I'm building a webapp for serious cyclists
http://pin.net.au is approaching general release
hzy··on Show HN - Github competitor with free private repo
It's a single, unified place to host code with a known-to-be-good experience.
hzy··on OrmHate
Because it has near-zero barrier to entry. That doesn't speak highly of PHP as a language, just on how its deployment strategy is designed.
hzy··on Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial
Of couse that's an over-simplification, de-normalisation certainly fits in after many other forms of optimisation.
hzy··on Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial
I think 3NF is a good starting point, then as I said in another comment, you start profiling to find where expensive queries are coming into play and hurting your performance, then denormalize those issues away.
hzy··on Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial
The 3A/3B course has very little regard for modern best practises, just what was relevant 15 years ago when the course was written.
hzy··on Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial
By 3NF most database schemas are good enough(tm), going further usually results in minor changes for large amounts of work.
hzy··on Understanding database normalisation: a very short tutorial
That's a process called de-normalisation, covered here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denormalisation You should only consider doing that after thorough profiling showing your joins are causing the performance loss.
hzy··on Kickstarter: Make a Better CoffeeScript Compiler
I don't really see the benefits of this over the existing compiler. The changes sounds like they could be merged into the existing compiler as command line arguments with relative ease.
hzy··on Girls and Computers
I'm not sure if I can see the correlation between the story being told and the fact that the author is female. It seems to be briefly mentioned in the first and last paragraphs.
hzy··on Blackout your Drupal site on January 18th (inspired by Wordpress plugin)
all 6 drupal users can black their sites out now!
hzy··on CLI tool for GitHub Issues
I read this as "Github gives out CLI edition"
hzy··on Kodak Teeters on the Brink
As long as Ektar and Portra keep rolling onto store shelves I'll be happy.