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KERMIT
16y ago
And be replaced by who?
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KERMIT
16y ago
Where is the value in Apple? Its ability to trick Americans into buying very expensive, yet very restrictive, products that most of the time they really don't need? That's actually a very harmful thing, from an economic perspective.
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KERMIT
16y ago
Are you sure about that? I've seen co-workers suggest the use of Coq, only to see a room full of managers and peers burst out in laughter. Coq won't catch on in many places where it'd be very useful solely because of its name.
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KERMIT
16y ago
It makes sense why he's saying that. The people responsible for large, important data sets usually have lots of money to spend storing that data. Since they care about their data, they know better than to get involved with NoSQL databases,
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KERMIT
16y ago
"Durability" in that sense has nothing to do with how the data is stored, or how long it's available for. It simply means that after a transaction has been reported as having been committed successfully, it won't ever be rolled back.
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16y ago
The huge rise in Objective-C's popularity isn't natural; it's only a result of Apple basically forcing all software targeting its popular mobile platforms to be written in Objective-C. Maybe the Perl community just needs to trick Apple into
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16y ago
It can, sometimes and with great skill, be used to write understandable code.
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16y ago
Don't confuse "development" with "maintenance". They are very different things. We see most of those projects merely being maintained, not radically improved. True development is happening within the Haskell community, for instance, where t
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KERMIT
16y ago
Most of the projects you just listed are several years old, and some go back more than five years. That's not exactly "new" when it comes to computing.
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KERMIT
16y ago
The best Flash-blocking extension is to just not bother installing Flash in the first place.
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KERMIT
16y ago
Browsers should just display content. Filtering proxies should filter out ads and other unwanted content before it ever gets to the browser.
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KERMIT
16y ago
Please take your anti-Reddit vitriol elsewhere.
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KERMIT
16y ago
His daemon solution actually sounds simpler, and much cheaper...
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KERMIT
16y ago
Don't use shortened URLs here, please. This isn't twitter; post the full URL.
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KERMIT
16y ago
Mainly by Haskell, Clojure and Erlang.
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KERMIT
16y ago
That sounds a lot like the Angelfire site builder that some people used to create sites way back in 1994.
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KERMIT
16y ago
Well, "Cloud Computing" became pretty widely know. After some people tried to actually use it seriously, they found out that it's actually quite shitty, and nothing but marketing blabber. This forced the marketing and hype folks to find som
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KERMIT
16y ago
No thanks, Zed. I'll just continue to use PostgreSQL. It'll scale better, it'll be more reliable, it's a real database, and it's released under a truly free licence. Take this NoSQL crap back to Rubyland.
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KERMIT
16y ago
It's too bad you're using a .ly domain. The mere association with Libya, and the fact that you're dealing with invoicing, makes me very uncomfortable.
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KERMIT
16y ago
It's okay that you're not using OpenID. It's a pain in the ass to use. It's one of the reasons I don't like using StackOverflow, for instance.
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16y ago
That was a terrible article. It was all over the place, spewing nonsense in all directions.