This is certainly a growing trend which was first started amongst end-users themselves, and slowly we've seen a few news media outlets also following suite. So far, only a very few government agencies have actually followed. Coming to mind are also The Netherlands. What is attractive for many organisations and agencies on Mastodon, is that...
  • amki@feddit.deEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    The implied difference is if someone or even you know how the algorithm works, which for “new” is relatively straightforward.

    • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Yeah

      SELECT TOP(100) * FROM POSTS ORDER BY DATEPOSTED

      Is a relatively straight forward command to a database and hell, I’m guessing extremely readable by your average Joe.

      • anlumo@feddit.deEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        If you’re talking SQL, it would be SELECT * FROM posts ORDER BY dateposted LIMIT 100.

        • drcobaltjedi@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          There are a lot of flavors of SQL each with their own syntax. I’ve been using Microsoft’s SQL now for 3 years and the syntax I used is correct for that.