Victor Nicollet

Most-linked posts?

1. The Vanishing Schema Paradox
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1. victorNicollet · 2022-01-25

   There are plenty of good ideas in here, I really like it. Here's a few things I can say from my experience (I have been working on a "better SQL" for almost 10 years now): - Your "aggregate by" taking a set of calculations to be performed on the groups is an excellent idea: the fact that "group by X" isn't a separate statement from the "select" that describes the calculations, means you can keep the idea that each l…

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   on “PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL”
2. victorNicollet · 2024-12-31

   Submitted Show HN: A remake of my 2004 PDA video game as a story · 106 points

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3. victorNicollet · 2012-08-23

   I believe this is a great idea, but I disagree with some points of your implementation. I actually started writing a lengthy comment about this, and after about two hours of writing I decided it might look better as a blog post, so there you go: http://www.nicollet.net/2012/08/tent-the-right-goals-the-wro...

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   on “Introducing Tent - the decentralized social web”
4. gtani · 2011-02-18

   Submitted My Company Is Using OCaml for web development. Why? as a story · 65 points

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5. victorNicollet · 2023-07-05

   https://nicollet.net Rather than a site to write articles, it's a site where I keep links to things I write (or talks I give) so that I don't lose them. I used to have a large blog ten years ago, with at least one post per day, because every blog guru on the internet said you needed to post every day to grow an audience. But I'm not smart enough to have something interesting to say every day, so it was rather poor q…

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6. p4bl0 · 2011-05-24

   Submitted Rewrite Your Code as a story · 7 points

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7. victorNicollet · 2023-10-21

   I've gone into more detail about this a few years ago in https://nicollet.net/blog/vanishing-schema-paradox.html but here's a short summary. Suppose you have the following analytics query: SELECT Customer.Name, sum(Sales.Quantity) FROM Customer INNER JOIN Sales ON Customer.A = Sales.A GROUP BY Customer.B Can you tell whether this will return exactly one line for each customer ? If INNER JOIN + GROUP BY was the dedic…

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   on “Don't use DISTINCT as a "join-fixer"”
8. gtani · 2011-10-10

   Submitted Functional programming, definition: 1st class objects, closures as a story · 5 points

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9. victorNicollet · 2023-01-02

   My old video game from 2004 [1] is now older than I was when I wrote it, and I recently found the C++ source and sprites in one of my archives, so I'm rewriting it in TypeScript as a personal challenge. The C++ code no longer builds (it's missing proprietary dependencies), and I no longer have the binaries or even the hardware needed to run them (it's a PocketPC game). If I manage to finish the rewrite, I'll get in…

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   on “Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?”
10. victorNicollet · 2011-06-02

    Submitted Software Patents - Why, Why Not as a story · 3 points

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11. vermorel · 2020-08-26

    Submitted The Vanishing Schema Paradox as a story · 2 points

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12. victorNicollet · 2012-05-31

    Submitted OCaml, Ocsigen, Eliom, Ohm and Frameworks as a story · 1 points

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13. victorNicollet · 2012-05-30

    Submitted Horseback couriers are all you need as a story · 1 points

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14. victorNicollet · 2012-03-23

    Submitted Execution Matters, Brand Matters More as a story · 1 points

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15. victorNicollet · 2012-02-29

    Submitted Two mindsets: blame the machine, or blame the user? as a story · 1 points

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16. zeppelin_7 · 2012-01-23

    Submitted Freedom.txt as a story · 1 points

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17. DanielH · 2011-10-12

    Submitted Let’s Whine About Google Dart as a story · 1 points

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18. dtby · 2011-05-02

    Submitted CouchDB-OCaml as a story · 1 points

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