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by ricmo 16y ago
This is an article based on a comment(!) to a NYT article. The comment itself is just a repost of the original (and now discredited) Oehmen "why I'm not worried" blog post. So this BI "article" is a repost of a repost. So much for investiga
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by ricmo 16y ago
Typo? : "If the availability drops below 25% you can apply for a service credit equal to 25% of your monthly bill." - if availability dropped below 25%, I'd be looking for more than 25% back...
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by ricmo 16y ago
Complex VM? New UI metaphors? ...W3C? Sure, that spec oughta be ready in 20 years or so.... It's a vendor job, not a committee spec. They can take the arrows in the back, keep what works, toss what doesn't. I personally think that modern JS
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by ricmo 16y ago
We're talking (or at least I thought we were) about replacing the scripting language in a browser , which visually renders the structure and styling of a DOM. That's how browsers work. Replacing the scripting language of a browser does not
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by ricmo 16y ago
OK, how exactly? Web apps now, and presumably in the future, are essentially engines focused on manipulating a DOM structure, which is then rendered (with any luck, correctly) by the browser, right? So unless you're talking about effectivel
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by ricmo 16y ago
The pain of developing web applications is largely dealing with cross-browser DOM and CSS issues. Swapping in a different scripting language may give you faster code execution, classic class-based inheritance and a packaging system, but as
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by ricmo 17y ago
I'm not sure I get the point of this. Two of SQLites strong points (among many others) are: (a) Short dependency list (b) Platform independent filesystem storage ..doesn't this negate both of those for what seems like little gain?
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by ricmo 17y ago
have you seen this? http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/