andrewvc

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   by andrewvc 17y ago

   Some of us feel grateful for what the world of FOSS has given us and enjoy giving back. Given the condescending and crude tone of your comment it's no wonder such concepts are foreign to you.
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   by andrewvc 17y ago

   Zed's a great guy, hell of a programmer, and from what I've read of his, he's got a good heart. However, he sure makes it hard to like him. I'll admit that the GPL is, at its heart, a cynical license, and that's what makes it so useful... B
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   by andrewvc 17y ago

   To clarify, I meant the finer distinctions between UTF-8 and unicode aren't as important. I wasn't advocating just using ASCII. UTF-8 just works for most things. I wasn't saying character encodings and knowing how they interact isn't worthw
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   by andrewvc 17y ago

   This is the kind of thing that doesn't matter till it does, which for most programmers (at least in the US) is never. When something bad happens you go off and learn some more, but, for a lot of people, it flat out won't be an issue.
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   by andrewvc 18y ago

   I tried it out, using a few of the couch DB interfaces a couple months ago. I'd say it's not ready for prime time yet except in cases where couchdb's model makes so much more sense for your data you're willing to go through a lot more pain