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There's multiple levels of experience. Someone can get really good at the technical solutions without learning what the human problems are and how to solve them.

For example, someone might dismiss IDEs as being unnecessary because technically the same job can be done without them by a superior human being, so the solution is to just be a superior human being.

Or as another example, someone could completely dismiss syntax highlighting as being useless for the superior, implying that the solution to the problem syntax highlighting solves is to just also become a superior human being.

There are multiple layers to any solution, and if one of them is missing, the others are kind of shaken out of balance.

sdegutis

há 6 anosdiscuss

Wasn't James Dean the "Rebel Without a Cause" in 1955?

sdegutis

há 7 anosdiscuss

It's not that it's unproved, it's that people aren't interested in hearing the proof, because it would mean they would have to change. If you are interested in explanations, watch a couple of Fulton Sheen episodes linked to from https://sdegutis.github.io especially within the Family Retreat series or the Catechism series.

sdegutis

há 7 anosdiscuss

Cause and effect goes much deeper than atoms.

sdegutis

há 7 anosdiscuss

Having depression is not a moral failure. But often it is caused by a lack of knowing how to handle moral dilemmas properly.

The brain is just a conduit for the soul and this connection is called the mind.

sdegutis

há 7 anosdiscuss

Using pills to solve a moral problem is as ineffective and illogical as using food to solve sadness.

sdegutis

há 8 anosdiscuss

The next paragraph gives a little more context:

    The SQLite website (https://www.sqlite.org/) uses SQLite
    itself, of course, and as of this writing (2015) it handles
    about 400K to 500K HTTP requests per day, about 15-20% of
    which are dynamic pages touching the database. Dynamic
    content uses about 200 SQL statements per webpage. This
    setup runs on a single VM that shares a physical server
    with 23 others and yet still keeps the load average below
    0.1 most of the time.

sdegutis

há 8 anosdiscuss

If you have a relatively small set of users, setting up your own database is usually as simple as setting it up locally and you won't need shards or anything. And setting up backups is as simple as adding a cron job that calls your backup shell script, which you can test separately. And by "small set of users", consider what SQLite's own website[1] says:

    Generally speaking, any site that gets fewer than 100K
    hits/day should work fine with SQLite. The 100K hits/day
    figure is a conservative estimate, not a hard upper bound.
    SQLite has been demonstrated to work with 10 times that
    amount of traffic.

If SQLite is able to comfortably handle 100k hits/day, I imagine that more "legitimate" databases can handle more traffic comfortably without needing to jump to scale horizontally.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/whentouse.html under "Websites" section

sdegutis

há 8 anosdiscuss

ClojureScript is basically an s-expression version of the good parts of JavaScript with lodash built in. It’s pretty cool. That said, if you don’t mind losing the benefits of s-expressions and macros, you can get mostly the same experience in vanilla JS. And even then there’s sweet.js which can get you part way there.

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