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stevedh··on ggsql: A Grammar of Graphics for SQL
Intermediate Representation
stevedh··on Ask HN: What's the best hackable smart TV?
It was shot in colour. But the rest of the comments in the tree apply.
stevedh··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
A Touch of Cloth. Probably the highest density jokes per second in UK comedy.
stevedh··on UK becomes first G20 country to halve its carbon emissions
I've flown Newcastle to Southampton (and back) a few times.
stevedh··on Ask HN: Science Fiction Starter List
Citizen of the Galaxy - despite being one of Heinlein’s “juveniles” is an interesting and entertaining exploration of the balance between freedom and duty.

It’s mostly not earth based.

stevedh··on Show HN: Going into freshman year, figured I should build an interpreter
Can you expand upon why you chose those particular things to focus on? I’m genuinely interested and don’t have a traditional CS background so I’d like to know what I’m missing.

(Serious question. I’m not being snarky)

stevedh··on Thunderbird 115
5. iOS Outlook

6. MacOS Outlook

stevedh··on London Underground Dot Matrix Typeface
https://fallout4london.com/ ?
stevedh··on The Complete ZX Spectrum ROM disassembly (1983) [pdf]
Oh that's why I could never check it out!

I'm kidding - I'm in the same area and would have loved to have read this, if I'd known it existed.

stevedh··on Please don’t let anyone Americanise it (1992)
Douglas Noel Adams
stevedh··on Ask HN: Junior SQL developers – How do you learn SQL?
Yes I'm familiar with it. What I'm saying is that :

relation = table. join = relationship.

stevedh··on Ask HN: Junior SQL developers – How do you learn SQL?
Bit of a nitpick.

Relations are another name for the tables, relations are not the joins between them.

stevedh··on Microsoft announces Lists, a new Airtable-like app
Absolutely agree with everything here. But I'm curious what you're considering as an Excel replacement? For anything more sophisticated than Google Sheet's can handle I can't think of a single alternative off-hand.
stevedh··on The Why of Cooking (2017)
That's an interesting idea. Do you leave the eggs to cool prior to breaking or are the cool enough to be handled after 20s?
stevedh··on Does OO really match the way we think (1997) [pdf]
This is an approach I've been exploring myself. Do you have any suggestions or recommendations as to languages that lend them selves well to this approach?
stevedh··on You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky (2015) [video]
It looks like that should be http://chandoo.org/wp/
stevedh··on Show HN: Jukebox, a music player for Dropbox for iOS
A bit of an aside, but is anyone aware of a cloud player (for onedrive or google drive ideally) that supports audiobooks well? I'm using the onedrive app at the moment but it has a tendency to forget your progress which leads to a lot of manual scrubbing to find your place.
stevedh··on Ask HN: What is HN reading?
Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" is well worth reading if a little enigmatic.
stevedh··on You shouldn’t use a spreadsheet for important work
Technically VBA != VBScript, although they are similar.