musou

musou wrote

like many people, the first program i ever made for fun was on a texas instruments calculator. trying to fit the whole thing in the available space, and getting it to run at tolerable speeds, was just as big of a puzzle as getting the program to work like i wanted.

i think for the majority of the history of computing, we've had to pay way more attention to efficiency, and overcoming the limitations of hardware, than most everyday programmers have to deal with today. and as we start bumping up against physical limitations like this, the skills and techniques required to optimize programs for space and execution speed will start to become more important to the majority of programmers again.

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musou wrote

damn, that's good. i admit i did not pay attention to the lyrics the first time, i often find it hard to focus on words and music at the same time and most of what i make and listen to is instrumental. but i looked them up and listened again and it transformed the experience

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musou wrote

i do not understand why anyone would buy that many of those things, but it's obviously important to them and i hope the entire collection is well-insured

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musou wrote

i don't know much about tea but i have been drinking ten ren high mountain oolong lately and it's real nice to me

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musou OP wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in ORMs are weird sometimes by musou

yeah most of the ones i have used do have the ability to execute raw SQL queries, which is how i solved the problem i had the other day. but you lose a lot of the benefit of using the ORM in the first place, you usually have to handle query pagination, input sanitization, and casting the response (which usually comes back as a 2D list of primitives) to the appropriate data structures yourself.

and just as bad, the code now has inconsistency in it. i never feel good about doing the same thing two different and incompatible ways.

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