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He exaggerates. That's just his style. We accept it, and we generally ignore what he says. Mongrel is nothing but hype most of the time. It doesn't offer particularly advanced feat…

That page says that Mongrel2 will be written in C. Maybe it won't be as goddamn slow as Mongrel is.

The MongoDB query looks just like the execution plan that'd be generated behind the scenes by the query evaluator of any relational database. Except, of course, the MongoDB query i…

I found http://www.korokithakis.net/node/116 to be closer to my experiences.

Most of the debt problems in the US are the result of poor decisions made by Republican governments during the 1980s and the 2000s. These Republicans get the bulk of their votes fr…

Maybe that's why reddit is so damn slow most of the time.

I wish that somebody would solve the "funny" problem with xkcd. You know, make it so that they're actually funny.

There's no excuse for a modern mail client, regardless of how it's implemented, to take 30 seconds just to open the display that's used for composing an email. Yes, that's how slow…

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I've seen code written in India that disallowed any email address containing one or more digits. This was on a site accepting email addresses from the general public, as well.

Have you never used Visual Studio or Eclipse? They easily let you navigate and search your own code, plus any other libraries you might be using and that you have the source code t…

It's good to get the word out to highly-technical audiences like one you find here, so that we can test it and report any bugs before the final release.

Are you a small man, in stature? I'm 6'5", and my thumb is about as big as the entire keyboard on a Blackberry. I try to press one key, and I end up pressing eight. That's why thos…

No, I think Microsoft actually got it correct. It's a much better user experience to have usable applications running on a real computer, than it is to have half-baked web "applica…

And be replaced by who?

Where is the value in Apple? Its ability to trick Americans into buying very expensive, yet very restrictive, products that most of the time they really don't need? That's actually…

Are you sure about that? I've seen co-workers suggest the use of Coq, only to see a room full of managers and peers burst out in laughter. Coq won't catch on in many places where i…

It makes sense why he's saying that. The people responsible for large, important data sets usually have lots of money to spend storing that data. Since they care about their data, …

"Durability" in that sense has nothing to do with how the data is stored, or how long it's available for. It simply means that after a transaction has been reported as having been …

The huge rise in Objective-C's popularity isn't natural; it's only a result of Apple basically forcing all software targeting its popular mobile platforms to be written in Objectiv…

It can, sometimes and with great skill, be used to write understandable code.

Don't confuse "development" with "maintenance". They are very different things. We see most of those projects merely being maintained, not radically improved. True development is h…

Most of the projects you just listed are several years old, and some go back more than five years. That's not exactly "new" when it comes to computing.

The best Flash-blocking extension is to just not bother installing Flash in the first place.

Browsers should just display content. Filtering proxies should filter out ads and other unwanted content before it ever gets to the browser.