mikea1 · HackerTrans

8 months agodiscuss

I think the Martian was adapted well from book to movie, so I have hope for this one. That said, compressing the entire story into a theatre runtime is tricky: I think it would be a win if only half of the character and relationship growth of the two ship bound protagonists comes through in the adaptation (because it was sooo good in the book!)

mikea1

3 years agodiscuss

> It reads like someone had a bad experience with a PM who thought they were Steve Jobs.

I had the opposite understanding about the article. Steve Jobs was an extraordinary leader who through immense will power created good products; an attempt to replace someone like Jobs as the product manager with an ordinary person will result in a mediocre product.

mikea1

3 years agodiscuss

> the pipelined nature of PRQL really maps much better to how people should think about queries

I disagree. Database engines take SQL and transform it into an execution plan that takes into consideration database metadata (size, storage, index analytics, etc.). Queries should be thought of with a _set based_ instead of _procedural_ approach to maximize the benefits of this abstraction - diving into the implementation details to guide the execution plan formation only when necessary.

Also, the pipeline approach could be achieved with common table expressions (CTEs), right?

That said, I think PRQL looks promising because it is a solid attempt to make RDBMS development more approachable. I also like that `from` comes before `select`: it is far more readable. A solid and modern IDE experience for PRQL could be a "killer app".

mikea1

3 years agodiscuss

> I've seen a real trend over the past decade of a lot of people wanting to consume content/ideas/etc. from a slide format rather than reading paragraphs of text.

I prefer long form content... but spending time in the comments section of HN may show a revealed preference.

I concur with your observation. Piling on with a couple examples:

- Axios is a news service that only delivers information in bullet points. Unlike their long-form competitors, they are expanding into local news. [0]

- Long form content, such as books, are less popular. The average number of books read each year has fallen to a 30 year low. [1]

[0] https://www.axios.com/local/columbus/2022/11/22/introducing-...

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/388541/americans-reading-fewer-...