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Microsoft's Postgres VS Code extension now available for Cursor

aquilaFiera — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:18:39 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/your-postgresql-workflow-just-found-its-new-home-in-cursor/4524081

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362092

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New comment by aquilaFiera in "PostgreSQL Anonymizer"

aquilaFiera — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:01:08 +0000

Seems like if you're doing static masking and you mask enough data, this works just great. Am I missing something?

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Singularity Missed"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 16:40:30 +0000

In both the article and Kurzweil's case, it just depends on how you want to set up the goal posts (which the article somewhat alludes to). If you want to measure flops and compare that way (which is similar to what you're suggesting), sure, we've surpassed human-level intelligence. If you want to measure capabilities like autonomous navigation (like the article does) there is still a ways to go before we have animal-level capabilities. Both discussions have merit. But it's a question of measurements and goal posts.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Rearchitecting: Redis to SQLite"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:09:23 +0000

Somewhat related: for the Neon internal hackathon a few weeks ago I wrote a little Node.js server that turns Redis's wire protocol (RESP) into Postgres queries. Very fun hack project: https://github.com/btholt/redis-to-postgres

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Pivotal Tracker will shut down"

aquilaFiera — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 14:38:33 +0000

+1. It's been 15 years since I used Tracker but I miss that aspect of it.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Rejected.us"

aquilaFiera — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 02:50:53 +0000

Jon, the creator of the site, worked at Twitter when he made this. I imagine a lot of the people to fill this out are friends and colleagues of his.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 11 May 2022 22:32:45 +0000

It's a normal PM position and you'd be in the normal PM salary bands. You'd be my peer. I manage the server-side SDKs, the CLI, the VS Code extension, the React Native SDK, the API upgrade experience, etc. We'd be in the same ladder. (AFAIK there's just one PM ladder at Stripe)

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Markdoc: Stripe's Markdown-based authoring framework"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 11 May 2022 18:22:40 +0000

We get to use Markdoc every day and it is a joy to work with.

Shameless plug: we're looking for someone to come in and a product manager over the Stripe Docs. Imagine working on docs at the company known for docs. Very fun problems.

https://stripe.com/jobs/listing/product-manager-docs/3928998

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner"

aquilaFiera — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:19:28 +0000

Dad?

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft"

aquilaFiera — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 22:06:09 +0000

Nope, I don't know of anyone working on Perl stuff in DevDiv but it's a big division.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Guido van Rossum joins Microsoft"

aquilaFiera — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 18:42:49 +0000

Well, the TypeScript and .NET organizations live within the Developer Division, and now we have Guido so there's Python. We also have fairly substantial dev tooling teams for C++ and Java so I imagine some of the contributors are there. We also have Node.js contributors as well as Electron (due to VS Code). Source: I work in DevDiv as well.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "In NY major crime complaints fell when cops stopped ‘proactive policing’ (2017)"

aquilaFiera — Fri, 29 May 2020 16:35:09 +0000

Malcom Gladwell addresses why proactive policing doesn't work at length in his book "Talking to Strangers". He refers to it as Kansas City style policing. Highly recommended.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Introduction to Web Development (2018)"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 02:04:39 +0000

Hey friends! This is Brian Holt, the author of course. Finding this on the front page of HN is an unexpected delight.

Just wanted to let you all know that the accompanying videos for this are free too[1] (you just have to create an account.)

[1]: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-development-v2/

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Starbucks in-store wifi provider in Buenos Aires uses CoinHive"

aquilaFiera — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 18:39:09 +0000

Using this logic, dollars are creating value by wasting paper and metal. What you're ignoring is the value of having a publicly auditable ledger of transactions and a decentralized currency. That _isn't_ a waste of electricity.

There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of cryptocurrency; this just isn't a good one.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Dropbox taking entire building in Mission Bay – biggest lease in city history"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 23:11:43 +0000

You can also run into an issue like Zynga: they bought an office for a lot of money, had a downturn, and then were in the precarious position of having their office worth more than them.

https://medium.com/halting-problem/zyngas-offices-now-worth-...

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsive desktop app"

aquilaFiera — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 15:48:49 +0000

> This is not as much a result of the superiority of the web stack for building applications (far from that, I don't think anyone disagrees that the web is a mess), as a failure of the current desktop UI frameworks. If people are preferring to ship a full web browser with their apps just so they can use great tools such as JavaScript (sarcasm) to build them, something must have gone terribly wrong.

This article so thoroughly misses the point of Electron. Furthermore the author's snark and condescension just serve to antagonize and attack rather than making any semblance of a point.

People choose Electron because it's easy to work with for people who are already comfortable with JavaScript. JS devs get to use tools like React, TypeScript, Webpack, Babel, and other tools they already understand and like. You have the entire wealth of tools of npm at your disposal. And since it's JS, you can share code between Electron, your website, and your Node server.

In addition to that, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript writing UIs is something thousands of us do every day do for a living. Being able to do that for a desktop application unlocked a whole world of development that previously was closed to only those comfortable with Objective C, C++, Java, and the like.

The author does a woefully inadequate job of explaining that choosing Electron is a _tradeoff_. You're trading a larger memory footprint, bigger artifact to distribute, and some extra performance challenges for the ability to write your application like a website in CSS, HTML and JS and have it work on every OS that Electron supports. For many this tradeoff is unacceptable but it's either incompetence or idiocy to not see that this tradeoff works for many of us.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Stop Faking Service Dogs"

aquilaFiera — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 02:24:48 +0000

San Francisco is only marginally better, and yeah, everyone gets their dog registered as an ESA.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds"

aquilaFiera — Mon, 08 May 2017 15:34:45 +0000

Huh, that is interesting. Another example of that from Italian is that word for cranberry and blueberry are the same word. I had never thought of them being particularly similar but many Italians I asked said they're so similar that they don't even distinguish them in their head.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "Bilingual speakers experience time differently, study finds"

aquilaFiera — Fri, 05 May 2017 22:28:29 +0000

As being bilingual in Italian and English, this seems … contrived to me. I don't believe I perceive time any differently when I speak one language or the other: I simply learned the idiomatic way to say it in that language. Same thing with using different prepositions: just because I use a different preposition in one language doesn't change the way I perceive the reality or relations of that situation.

New comment by aquilaFiera in "The Evolution of Container Usage at Netflix"

aquilaFiera — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 15:32:52 +0000

This sounds like one of those developer estimates that takes 10x longer than stated.