I don’t know. I’m a tinkerer but if we think about phone ecosystem, then I just want my phone to work and not spy on me. I’ll tinker with my other devices, but after bricking one phone, I won’t do it again.
The tinkering doesn't have to be invasive or risky. I share your worry and am rather scared of breaking anything because of the amount of work I put into the configuration. My solution is to root very early on, just after testing everything and making sure I don't want to make sure of my 14 day return right, so if something goes wrong there I don't lose data. After that, I use root for all sorts of things, but after configuring everything I don't do invasive things like installing different ROMs or removing system apps or so.
Indeed. The other thing I learned after having a Windows Mobile phone for years: I don't need every latest app either. I want my phone to take calls, texts, emails, pictures, and I am mostly good to go.
I switched to an iPhone recently, but I'm not really engaging heavily with Apple's services or ecosystem.
Hi! This is cool, and is something I wish I had when studying database normalization back in my CS days. If you're seeking more visitors, I would send nice emails to DB professors offering it as free class material. Students could study "current open source" DB patterns, and discuss (in online discussions) the characteristics or that don't make sense.
One comment: I can't figure out how to make the diagrams full screen, and I don't like viewing it in that small box. Perhaps offer a way to maximize or download for offline viewing?
Thanks, a big part of this idea actually came from lecturers that have been using DrawSQL for teaching in uni classes :). I agree will definitely reach out to a few more to see if this tool will be valuable.
On making it fullscreen, that's such an useful/obvious thing to include in hindsight. Thanks for the suggestion! For now you can actually click on the "DrawSQL" logo within that opens it in full screen in a new tab
+1 that the logo affordance is too subtle to make the full feature set easily discoverable from a schema page.
The Export function in the full editor is nice to see. Once the JSON support is there, it would be fun to analytically compare schemas from function-set similar applications.
I don’t know. It sounds like you’re older and smarter than I, but whenever I see two spaces at the end of a sentence, I fix it to make it one space. It looks plain wrong to my brain
When you're reading a several hundred page technical report, those double spaced periods are really helpful for picking sentences out at a glance. You don't tend to read those in order from start to finish. There's a lot of jumping around, highlighting things, writing notes. Having sentences be easily visually distinguishable at a glance when scanning a page is fairly helpful.
It's kind of like trying to read tons of code with or without syntax highlighting.
Double spacing between paragraphs is surprisingly helpful with smudged text on physical paper. Many linguistic conventions seem arbitrary, but are really about redundancy.
Punctuation could have replaced spaces.just like capitalization of the first letter in a new sentence,it’s helpful to make things as obvious as possible. Is that period a typo or are those supposed to be different sentences?
Two spaces is probably wrong, but for typesetting it generally looks better to have slightly bigger spaces at the end of sentences, and if you need to stretch space it generally works better to do so at the end of sentences.
And you would be right. There shouldn't be two spaces. It's some old convention from typewriter times. Nowdays space is not fixed width. It's fluid and it's job of the system (browser, graphic editor) to make it right width.
In fact first thing book designer / publisher will do when they get text from author is run it through cleanup script to fix all mistakes and inconsistencies and one of those will be double+ spaces.
