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Microsoft is merely following Apple's shitty lead on that. Microsoft is finding new ways to hinder usage all over the place. The "+" symbols in Explorer that used to tell you which…

WTF, Microsoft, WHERE IS THE STAND-ALONE INSTALLER?

+1 for saying "key/value" instead of "key-value".

Hooray, ANOTHER Parse post on the front page!

Yay, more Parse spam.

Thanks!

But it's not without its idiotic blunders. Topping the list is Apple's insistence that your user ID be an E-mail address. That's not just a bad idea, but it has resulted in untold …

Seems like quoted keys are a pain in the ass. That's the only useful change I see here.

It's too bad, though, because all the extra quotes bloat what is otherwise a nice, spare format.

You didn't answer his question, except in regard to comments. Everything else you said is based simply on the non-standard nature of this dialect.

How about fixing the log-in system? It claims "bad login" for valid credentials, doesn't say what's bad about it, and doesn't provide any way to reset supposedly bad passwords.

That works only in a simple example like this, where you can make contact with all of the undesired objects without making contact with the desired ones. This is almost never the c…

Because you remember the name of every program on your computer, including that seldom-used demuxing utility you downloaded last year.

Yeah, I don't do that. I write the math expressions in the queries.

And yet conveniently cited as a feature of the database engine when it suits you.

We're talking about TURNAROUND TIME, not what happened years ago. This is something that took five years TO happen.

As several have pointed out: You are paying.

That "memo" (otherwise known as a rumor) has already gone back and forth, and I have better things to do than baby-sit Microsoft's UI regressions. Actually, the Start menu itself w…

Yes, extensively Mac OS. Now you want to talk about a turd, that is it. PackageMaker is abandonware and an absolute fiasco. I don't even know where to begin documenting how this "p…

Love it.

I pointed out that they never give a specific reason for preferring spaces. At least you did that. You can still achieve what you want, and even faster, by using tabs to get your s…

I thought I saw that too. It turns out that it falls back to Flash if your browser doesn't support HTML 5's "audio" tag. If anything, maybe this will prompt Apple and Mozilla to ge…

OK, then why shouldn't there be a special function to assess the cost of the beer in any specified currency at the time of the query? Should there be special functions for querying…

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The article's arguments aren't that convincing. Geospatial indexing? That's an application-specific function that shouldn't be bloating a database engine. If anything, the grocery …