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By "larger applications", I wasn't talking about jQuery, Node.js or anything built upon them. I'm talking about real software systems with, at a very minimum, tens of thousands of …

That flexibility is indeed useful for scripts and adding minor interactivity to an otherwise static web page. However, people are now using JavaScript for development that far exce…

The number of packages involved is a very poor measure of the effort needed to maintain a system. Apache and more established technologies have had much more testing and are far mo…

It wasn't edited. I'm not sure why 18pfsmt is overly sensitive. Maybe he subconsciously feels that his new techniques are inferior to proven approaches, and exhibits this through o…

Apache is also very well-tested and extremely reliable. For some people and organizations, that's a very important factor.

Something is wrong with the styling of that page. In Chrome, Firefox and IE the first few paragraphs overlap some of the panels on the right, making it very unreadable.

If you're already running a dozen sites on one server, collectively they're probably not getting very much traffic. You may very well be able to use a large number of processes jus…

It's hipper. More trendy. Lets you write blog articles that make it sound like you're cutting-edge.

Not all Ubuntu users are using a laptop. It is absurd to penalize desktop users with a UI that just isn't suited to desktop use. OEMs often don't truly understand the needs and wan…

The problem isn't Linux. The problem is GNOME, and to a lesser extent, KDE. GNOME is just not a good desktop environment, yet it has often been pushed as "the" Linux desktop by var…

Regardless of how much he actually did, this is quite an accomplishment in modern-day America. Even the most basic attempts at some task slightly related to engineering should be l…

This isn't just "a single person's biased experience". This is an experience that millions of developers and users have experienced time and time and time and time and time and tim…