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by olavk 8y ago
What would actually happen is people would stop upgrading their browsers if never versions made some previously working sites inaccessible. The age of automatic browser upgrades would come to an end and it would again take a decade before n
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by olavk 8y ago
You seem to think that the committee sitters which believe in "don't break the web" are "inadequate". But this philosophy is shared by the browser vendors - they are simply not going to implement a standard which &q
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by olavk 8y ago
This is unlikely to happen. Browser developers don't want to maintain multiple forks of their JavaScript engines. They want new features introduced in a backward compatible manner so they can maintain a single engine. Imagine in 10 yea
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by olavk 8y ago
You can be certain the ECMAScript committee is not going to break any of the more popular libraries (like JQuery, Angular etc) either. It just because these libraries were better designed in the first place that it hasn't been an issue
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Monkey patching is also what allows polyfills, which are one of the things which allow the web to move forward. So I would say it is more of a double-edged sword than an all-around bad practice.
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by olavk 8y ago
Imagine if books became unreadable the day the author died. Some people care about books, even books written by people long dead. And some people care about the content on some older websites, even if they are not using the newest flashy fr
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by olavk 8y ago
It is possible, but I think the committees would prefer to avoid too many "modes" which makes specification and testing much more complex. Just think about the complexity caused by having "quirks" and "standards&quo
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by olavk 8y ago
The discussion comes down to whether a significant amount of websites (in absolute numbers) will break. The article hints to "extensive telemetry" to figure out the number of affected sites but doesn't cite any numbers. On th
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by olavk 8y ago
Comments may drift if the code is not maintained properly, but commit messages will also drift. The more you edit/move/refactor, the harder it will be to connect the code in question with the relevant commit message. I don't
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Didn't editors have search-replace back then? Although I can understand this if the developers hated C and was forced to port against their will.
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by olavk 8y ago
This seems wrong to me. If the "why" is not obvious from the code itself then it should be clearly explained in comments. It should not be detective work to figure out why some code is written in a non-obvious way. Otherwise peopl
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by olavk 8y ago
It is the homeless people who should stop whining and move away? Or the priest who wanted to help them?
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by olavk 8y ago
Doesn't graph databases have similar query facilities? How does shifting to a graph database avoid the complexity of recursive queries?
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by olavk 8y ago
Is this serious? It seems to prevent SQL injection by only allowing statically defined strings to be interpolated. So basically not allowing any kind of dynamic or user input.
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by olavk 8y ago
But can you solve the same task in a more straightforward way without CTE?
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In order to decide whether you believe in something, you have to know what "something" the question is about. The concept of "God" in western society is often so vague it is impossible to have an opinion either way - for
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by olavk 8y ago
A belief in evolution have nothing to do with atheism. Many religious people believe in evolution.
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Even Encyclopædia Brittanica uses Animal Farm as an example of Allegory: https://www.britannica.com/art/allegory-art-and-literature .
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By that definition, not even Animal Farm is an allegory since Stalin and Trotsky are not abstract concepts.
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Those illustrations are wonderful!
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Maybe the word you are looking for is "subtle". Lewis is downright preachy a times and sometimes even goes beyond allegory and just lets Aslan be a mouthpiece for his own theology and morals. Tolkien is never preachy, so he could
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by olavk 8y ago
I will not try to convince you otherwise then. It may however interest you that Tolkien himself said " 'The Lord of the Rings' is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but conscious
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Sure there are many - differences otherwise it wouldn't be an original work! Christian mythology is just one source of inspiration. But are you disputing there is some amount of Christian allegory in LotR?
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It seems you just don't like the movies. That is OK!
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The best Disney movies are in my opinion sublime artistic creations surpassing most "art movies" in quality and depth of the craft and art of visual storytelling. Just look at Bambi, Pinocchio or Fantasia. They also happen to be s
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by olavk 8y ago
It would be ridiculous to claim the movies were not based on the books. Of course they had to change a lot of things, the books were not written as movie scripts. The primary responsibility of a movie director is to make a great movie.
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Well the Shire is saved in the end, isn't it? I think it is more that is a smaller scale conflict playing out after the resolution of the larger conflict which simply does not work very well on film. Maybe in a tv series, it would work
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Hans Christian Andersen himself altered and retold existing folktales and added his own slant and morals. Among other things he was heavily inspired by Arabian Nights but adapted the themes to a Scandinavian setting. Nothing new under the s
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by olavk 8y ago
Well I think it is more complex...certainly, I can understand how it is problematic to show Jim Crow era blacks as happy and content. But on the other hand the movie disneyfies African-American folktales like they have done to european folk
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There is no "true version" of fairy tales. They are an oral tradition with a multitude of versions - for example Cinderella is known in dozens of different version from across the world, and in the oral tradition probably every na

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