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Aside from the other commenter's point about this being a misleading comparison, you didn't need to reinvent the whole XML ecosystem from scratch, it was already there and function…

What makes XSLT inherently unsuitable for an interactive application in your mind? All it does is transform one XML document into another; there's no earthly reason why you can't o…

I'm aware I'm in a minority, but I find it sad that XSLT stalled and is mostly dead in the market. The amount of effort put into replicating most the XML+XPath+XSLT ecosystem we ha…

Passed with the support of the current governing party, it should be noted.

BMW tried that with the i3, it wasn't particularly popular. An engine, fuel system and a generator are all relatively complex additions compared to just putting the same cost and v…

I can't help thinking more startups need greybeards around. (Of which, realistically, I'm now one.) Largest table 100 million rows and they were paying 6 figures for database servi…

And yet it happens. A doctor in my family told the story of a patient they were treating in hospital who medically needed to lose weight, and who they found unable to get any reduc…

That's it! Thanks :-)

HP did the same when migrating away from the PA RISC architecture. IIRC as part of their testing they set it up so it would ingest, recompile and output code for the same architect…

Nikon aren't doing much better on letting third-party lenses into the ecosystem, sadly - speaking as someone with three Nikon DSLRs and Sigma glass I'm very happy with.

I'm a software engineer not a firefighter, but my understanding is that it's significantly an experience thing. Lithium battery fires clearly aren't trivial to deal with and do bur…

Sure, it's a market with massive abuse potential, but we have a world full of them and we regulate to control the abuses. The underlying service is clearly of societal benefit and …

That's incredibly short-sighted, not least because the number of fires per vehicle is orders of magnitude higher for combustion vehicles. I'd be astonished if that made actuarial s…

Agreed, but they're not that complex to retrofit to a parking space. I can foresee a future where each space has a port and an account card reader - they'd make the buildings more …

Yes, but it's also a breaking change to a very large legacy codebase. I can't see it ever happening, sadly.

All Tesla's global sales cars are due for replacement, and none are in the offing. Tesla are circling the drain, fast, and are very unlikely to be around in their current form in 5…

Because there's existing implementations that would interpret that as aliasing column names. ``` SELECT Field AS Renamed, OtherField AS AlsoRenamed ``` and ``` SELECT Field Renamed…

I remember hearing Callum Skinner talk about the British track team preparing for the Olympics, and how the biggest problem they had was strength - I remember the number 2400 for t…

Nikon defaulted to DSC_0001 for some time now, may still do but I don't have any Z series gear to check.

No, but the volume of hydrocarbons SpaceX are burning to provide a broadband network by cluttering low earth orbit with shiny things is hardly an obvious win.

Elon who's company SpaceX are firing large quantities of Methane-powered rockets into the sky?

Speaking for where I know, immigrants have been substantially higher net contributors than non-immigrants while the research on wage suppression suggests it's almost certainly not …

I wish Commodore had had a quarter of Apple's marketing skills. More powerful, cheaper hardware with a significantly more capable and extensible OS could have made the Mac a footno…

IIRC the major factor in that was found to be that left-handed people within the age ranges where significant numbers of them are dying of natural causes had usually been brought u…

For who though? If you're a user of whatever-data-format designing your new application, you could always use the subset you actually cared about. No-one forced you to use all the …