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by emsy 13y ago
I agree. A much more interesting topic for me would've been: "CSS or JS Animations: does it matter?" I would say if you have so much animations that CSS can't handle it it's too much. But thats just a rule of thumb
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by emsy 13y ago
This is probably going to be unpopular: My main problem with most functional languages is that they encourage cryptic code. From the tutorials I've read Lisp seemed somewhat readable, but the tutorials encouraged me to use list compre
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by emsy 13y ago
One thing that Arch does well is that it makes you understand the OS and that you have full control over what you'll actually install. I liked that very much. For me, the problem is how poorly some updates were handled. The knowledge t
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by emsy 13y ago
The author suggests Arch Linux for Desktop use. I used Arch for 2 years and liked it. It still runs on my raspberry. I wouldn't recommend it for any serious work where downtime costs you money though. There are just too many occasions
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by emsy 13y ago
Physical protection, not legal protection.
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by emsy 13y ago
Funny, I chose my DigitalOcean VPS to be located in the Netherlands rather than the UK. Freedom comes in various levels.
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by emsy 13y ago
So what's next? Facebook employees breaking into houses and stealing Occulus Rift DevKits that haven't been used for a while? SCNR
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by emsy 13y ago
The questions were pretty good, because they were close to the real world and you couldn't google them so easily. The programming tasks were rather unbalanced. The first two were super easy, while you can easily get stuck on the last
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by emsy 13y ago
Far worse are websites like Battle.net that hijack the onpaste events to prevent pasting passwords. Hijacking keyboard shortcuts may cause inconveniences but prohibiting password pasting is a security flaw.
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by emsy 13y ago
The name fits: You've got to have a deep belief if you trust a 3rd Party binary.
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by emsy 13y ago
Haha, that was my thought too. A evaluation for a company that actually adds value instead of smoke and mirrors.
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by emsy 13y ago
Thanks for the link. CouchDB really sounds more like a platform/framework. As for the points you mentioned, refer to my answer to janl.
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by emsy 13y ago
Of course the "Oracle buys CouchDB" scenario wasn't meant serious :). But the point still stands. There may be much more trivial cases which can drive an user to switch from CouchDB and CouchDB derivatives to another DB. E.g.
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by emsy 13y ago
What if someday, you decide that you want to change the database because CouchDB was bought by Oracle? You'll have to clone Couch's REST API or you may break your clients.