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The describe it as "an unsanctioned hack on top of typescript", so I think the point is they don't want to change the typescript parser itself, but provide this as an add-on.
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User stories makes total sense when you focus on their purpose. A tenet of agile development is to quickly get functionality into the hands of the customer or product owner, so they can provide feedback and get a better understanding of wha
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Named after characters in the mythologies of the groups, e.g. Fenrir from Norse mythology. Initially they were all named after Titans (because Saturn is a Titan), but they ran out of Titans. As far as I can tell, the Norse names are all nam
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The "rationalists" were obsessed with religious ideas like the apocalypse, eternal life, separating the soul from the body, the world more real then the physical world. Instead of critically examining these ideas, they just re-fra
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> Normalisation at all costs is foolish - if the cost exceeds the value, then don't do it. Value of denormalization: May improve query performance for some particular use cases. (But probably not any more than using a materialized v
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> Normalisation is there to make data accessible for multiple different users Normalization is there to avoid anomalies which is another word for data corruption. If you have the same datum repeated multiple times in the base tables, a
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> the real world doesn't have schemas In the same sense that the real world doesn't have numbers, types, or functions. Platonist might disagree, but in any case it is beside the point. What matters is if these concepts are use
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> Also an index is nothing more than a partial copy of a table with a different key. It denormalizes you data. Do you use indexes other than pk? The relational model distinguish between the logical and physical levels. Normalization app
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Normalization only applies to the base tables, i.e. the tables which work as the "single source of truth". Queries and views (which are just stored and possibly cached queries) often have repeated information and this is not a pr
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Sorry I don't understand your argument. HTML is fully and unambiguously defined, as you can see if you follow the link. Some tags are optional in certain contexts, but this is also precisely defined.
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Comic books at the time where generally anonymous work-for-hire. The publishers like DC deliberately avoided crediting the artists. The original creators of Superman ran multiple lawsuits against DC, but only got a payout in the 1970's
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Only if you claim it is an original by another artist.
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No, because the closing </html> tag can be omitted according to the current HTML spec. See https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#optional-tags
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At the time, comic books were not really considered art. Comic book illustrations were generally work-for-hire and the artists not credited even in the in original comic books (even today this is a sore point). Lichtenstein was considered a
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> What if I were to take a Lichtenstein piece, rotate it, crop 2% of it and sell it anew w/o any royalties? Could the Lichtenstein estate really argue against it if the original its-self is stolen? You should definitely try this, ju
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Tables does not render reliably across platforms. This is because the algorithm for sizing columns and cells was never standardized. Back when tables were the only tool available for layout, professionals combined tables with 1x1 pixel tran
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And CSV for tabular data!
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To be pedantic, html parsing is not lenient, it is unambiguously specified.
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Yeah, now express this in JSON: <div> <p>JSON example:</p> <pre> [ {"title": "Led Zeppelin II", "artist": "Led Zeppelin", "price": 9
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If we are going for simplicity, surely S-expressions wins? You can support structures similar to JSON or XML on top of it, but the baseline is simpler.
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They are probably not for you.
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Just to be clear, this is The Onion, not actual clips by Lars von Trier.
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The soundtrack is from the movie, but Breaking the Waves was not a Dogme movie.
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The rules are mostly focused on production, but obviously it puts a lot of constraints on the writing that you can't use sets and costumes. > this manifesto sounds pretentious yet weird and - most importantly - badly missing the po
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One of the rules is the director must be anonymous. Obviously this didn't happen, and it is pretty clear the Dogme directors didn't take the manifesto that seriously. The genius of the Dogme concept was it took the limitations o
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Pusher is certainly not Dogme, e.g. it has a (great) soundtrack.
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"The Boss of it All" takes place in some kind of IT software firm. I'm pretty sure "automavision" is inspired by the kind of online meeting camera which tries (and often fails) to focus on the person talking. While
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This is true. It was really the whole browser HTML/CSS/DOM/JavaScript platform which was considered locked and frozen by IE. Flash supported JavaScript but through its own independent engine, which meant it could evolve indep
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Another important piece of context: HTML was basically frozen at the time, since this was when Internet Explorer had absolute domination of the browser space and Microsoft had decided not the develop it further. But innovation could still h
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If you use JavaScript you need to be aware of these pitfalls, otherwise it will bite you. The video just does it in an entertaining way.
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