Stiffy

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by Stiffy 15y ago
By "larger applications", I wasn't talking about jQuery, Node.js or anything built upon them. I'm talking about real software systems with, at a very minimum, tens of thousands of lines of code. More realistically, we're talking systems wit
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by Stiffy 15y ago
That flexibility is indeed useful for scripts and adding minor interactivity to an otherwise static web page. However, people are now using JavaScript for development that far exceeds those uses. JavaScript is just not suitable for larger a
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by Stiffy 15y ago
The number of packages involved is a very poor measure of the effort needed to maintain a system. Apache and more established technologies have had much more testing and are far more mature. Their releases are often much more infrequent, me
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by Stiffy 15y ago
It wasn't edited. I'm not sure why 18pfsmt is overly sensitive. Maybe he subconsciously feels that his new techniques are inferior to proven approaches, and exhibits this through outrage?
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by Stiffy 15y ago
Apache is also very well-tested and extremely reliable. For some people and organizations, that's a very important factor.
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by Stiffy 15y ago
Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.
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by Stiffy 15y ago
If you're already running a dozen sites on one server, collectively they're probably not getting very much traffic. You may very well be able to use a large number of processes just fine.
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by Stiffy 15y ago
It's hipper. More trendy. Lets you write blog articles that make it sound like you're cutting-edge.
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by Stiffy 15y ago
Not all Ubuntu users are using a laptop. It is absurd to penalize desktop users with a UI that just isn't suited to desktop use. OEMs often don't truly understand the needs and wants of their customers, as well. The recent backlash, even am
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by Stiffy 15y ago
The problem isn't Linux. The problem is GNOME, and to a lesser extent, KDE. GNOME is just not a good desktop environment, yet it has often been pushed as "the" Linux desktop by various distros and vendors. New Linux users end up using GNOME
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by Stiffy 15y ago
Regardless of how much he actually did, this is quite an accomplishment in modern-day America. Even the most basic attempts at some task slightly related to engineering should be lauded. They are very rare these days.
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by Stiffy 15y ago
This isn't just "a single person's biased experience". This is an experience that millions of developers and users have experienced time and time and time and time and time and time and time and time again. ORMs make for a bad developer exp