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That was also the era when DBMS locking was iffy, so competing inserts/updates would happen once sites got too busy, and everyone was encouraged to turn off transactions (or, on My…

This is one of my biggest pain points with hg vs git: Git is actually the one that flat-out prevents me from rebasing most of the time, usually for the most spurious of reasons, wh…

I remember when you basically had to yell "Committing!" and "Done committing!" to the whole room. Woe be unto those companies that tried to use VSS or CVS with more than a roomful …

So many of the quotes feel like pure projection. The guy makes up little fantasies about everyone he spied on, even assuming his tales are true, he certainly doesn't interview them…

I hope the author can come back to tell us whether he did comparisons with different speed presets for BPG; it ranges from insanely fast to insanely slow, and that's probably just …

I don't feel like that page is entirely fair. The PNG and GIF comparisons are unfair; they're the same low resolution as FLIF, but given nearest-neighbor upsampling instead of bili…

He didn't try hard enough. OpenJPEG has a file size parameter, which can go well below its -q 0 size. I was easily able to generate a 16.9K jp2 by specifying the size: https://dl.d…