As someone who has written quite a few half-baked-for-general-use but fit-for-purpose SQL generator utilities over the years, I'll suggest that if you intend for a novel syntax to be a general SQL replacement then being isomorphic to SQL would massively increase usefulness and uptake:

1. novel syntax to SQL; check! Now novel syntax works with all the databases!

2. any valid SQL to novel syntax; a bit harder, but I'd start by using a SQL parser like https://github.com/pganalyze/libpg_query and translating the resulting AST into the novel syntax.

3. novel syntax to SQL back to novel syntax is idempotent; a nice side effect is a validator/formatter for "novel syntax"

4. SQL to novel syntax back to SQL is idempotent; a nice side effect is a validator/formatter for SQL, which would be awesome. (See also https://go.dev/blog/gofmt, which is where I learned this "round trip as formatter" trick.)

I don't mean for this to sound negative, and I know that 2, 3, and 4 are kind of hard. Thank you for building prql!

Best delivered while the car is still at speed for maximum frustration. (Also best when the mood is already light.)

I once made a real meals-and-visits schedule signup sheet app for a sick relative (dozens of folks signing up for slots over days, etc.) in about 20 minutes, including learning a bunch about the tool.

Ultimately it "just" made CRUD apps, but it made the process amazingly fast. The equivalent of updating a Django model and view was usually a click or two with no waiting, and the only typing was to name things.

Disclaimer: I work for Fitbit.

Edit: Also, the battery needs a 90-minute charge only once or twice a week.

There is an enormous need in several industries for this sort of thing; but most people don't really know they need it yet.

My brother and I used to argue about whether Orange Fanta counted as a coke. He thought it wasn't, because it was orange soda and not cola. I thought it was, because it was sugary carbonated soda.

My wife refers to them all as soda or pop. The industrial name for them all is "soft drink", which I think means they don't have alcohol in them.

It's a very regional, kind of random thing.

Here's a visualization of this; mostly bluer cities and mostly redder non-city:

http://www.princeton.edu/~rvdb/JAVA/election2004/

Please save your accusations of irrational, hysterical agendas for them that advocates hysteria and the abandonment of reason.

A National Security Letter would do just as well, and at least two years of data need to be at the government's disposal. Without addressing the merits of National Security Letters, I should point out that one covering your data, or many people's data, or all of Facebook's data, might arrive at any time.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter * http://www.aclu.org/national-security-technology-and-liberty... * http://www.justice.gov/oig/special/s0803b/final.pdf

http://www.quantumnano.at/

(Only such a beautiful specimen deserves such nitpicking, but: it's not a _genius_ talk, it's an _ingenious_ talk. _Ingenious_ is the adjective form of the noun _genius_.)

Beautiful maps, though.