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He said poor cost/performance. I.e, he means it has less bang for the buck, compared to something like a VPS on Slicehost. Which is true (there are several benchmarks in related pr…

You have to have a product before you can have by-products, that's what he says. You cannot begin with a business plan/model scattered all over the place, with some core product an…

Thanks for the fishes. Here's my new venture: http://critiquebitches.tumblr.com/

Dextorious here. I replied in another comment to most out-of-context quotes of mine used by seliger (a comment which someone already down-voted, because, presumably, the response o…

"""You could have left his name out of this, still used the quotes,""" Yeah. And preferably he could have used my quotes in context and in their entirety , instead of cutting piece…

“”"”The more recent readers don’t, or a critical mass of people is developing who don’t work to contribute substantive material. I hadn’t really thought about the issue until about…

"""("Their coming" would suggest a correction to "They're coming")'"" How about: "Her relatives would visit us for Christmas. Their coming filled us with dread!"

"""The sentence contains misspelled words.""" No, it contains correctly spelled words used in place of other desired words. "I sea your eyes", "I she your eyes" If you want to corr…

"""I think it's perfectly reasonable to define "spelling checker" to include mere non-word detectors. """ Sure it is (reasonable). You just cannot go around acting as if such a def…

I mean the whole tone and the other arguments of the parent comment. Skipped them, much?

"""That's hardly a rant. It's just the long story of MS vs. the "viral" open source / free software.""" That's hardly a story. Company wants you to use their products instead of OS…

No, he has not. "sql server" is just the product's name, it's not a generic category of servers. We call the generic category "SQL Server" belongs to: database servers, or relation…

"""This is just sugar coating for the crap they're covering.""" Yes, please, do reduce an elaborate article discussing technical and business trade-offs into a silly anti-MS rant t…

Well, re: tinfoil, you'll have to admit that turning js off is a little on the tinfoil side... What's the supposed benefit of breaking 80% of the modern web? Using lower resources?…

"""It seems the author of that article doesn't know that spell checking, translating and understanding text are actually major features of pretty new software, too. """ Actually it…

You keep using this word "spelling". I don't think it means what you think it means. This is GRAMMAR checking, or at least grammar-assisted spell checking. Very few, if any, shippi…

"""Oprah has practically become a saint, for opening a school that graduates ~100 students a year. Foxconn provides hundreds of thousands of migrant workers with the money they nee…

Say that to e.e. cummings' face!

"""Most software are outdated after a couple of years.""" You'd be surprised. Tons of code runs in production, even in the latest of shiny systems, that was written 10 and 20 and 3…

Probably found some book or magazine about programming in some cruise ship...

Well, flexible enough so that it can refactored to something else later != framework-level abstractions. It could just be as simple: just don't make an untangleable mess out of it.…

To be frank, I also expected to mainly get downvotes from my spur of the moment response. But the gist of what I was trying to convey is: It's 2011. The web is inherently tied with…

Opera && javascript turned off == I don't care about this "web" thing. So, I, for one, don't exactly care about what happened in your tin-foil crazy edge case.

"""Other cases I can think of are systems where high-throughput or low latency are major requirements but there aren't many of those.""" Actually, I haven't met many cases of syste…

"""because MySQL is sadly /not/ a correct implementation, while PostgreSQL is""" Of SQL maybe, but of Relational Algrebra/Set Theory, neither PostgreSQL is.