peburrows

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by peburrows 6y ago
So... do pretty much exactly what ORMs with migration support already do for you?
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by peburrows 7y ago
I originally read this headline as "WeWork sells TO Meetup" and I was extremely confused.
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by peburrows 7y ago
I appreciate the work this author does to compile these posts, but man, every time I visit his site, I get frustrated that there’s no way to stop the map animations to inspect in detail what has actually changed. Invariably, I get frustrate
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by peburrows 7y ago
“I don’t like to waste bytes” isn’t exactly a great reason to write off a widely accepted and deployed spec for transmitting data in a trustworthy manner and instead write your own implementation, which most likely hasn’t considered all the
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by peburrows 7y ago
I've browsed hundreds of thousands of websites and used a computer daily for the better part of my life...and it took me ten seconds to figure out how to even scroll the horizontal version. PLEASE stop breaking scrolling, people.
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by peburrows 7y ago
VitalSource | Backend/Full-stack Engineer | Boston, MA | Full-time | ONSITE VitalSource Bookshelf is the world's #1 digital content platform, serving more than 25 million users on over 7,000 campuses in 200+ countries with native
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by peburrows 8y ago
Well, there are a number of reasons, but let me give you one of the more important ones: If a browser were allowed to make cross-origin requests without restrictions, any site could take advantage of a user’s active session on any other sit
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by peburrows 8y ago
Overall, I agree with the sentiment of your comment, but the assertion that MySQL isn’t a serious database is just flat out wrong.
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by peburrows 10y ago
How very unfortunate that they must now focus on "building profitable businesses". You know, there was a time when that was the very point of running a business.
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by peburrows 10y ago
That's not true. Sure, many languages require you to drop down to a lower-level API to create a vanilla TCP connection, but if the language you're using doesn't provide a way to open a TCP socket and do the TLS negotiation da
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by peburrows 10y ago
Many browsers throttle javascript performance (particularly looping timers) when the tab doesn't have focus. My guess is the "color bomb" is just a side effect of the JS performance returning to a normal level when focus retu
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by peburrows 10y ago
When you say "How to Read a Book is a wonderful read," do you mean one ought to "read" or "inspect" it? :)