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That particular visualization wouldn't show an average global temperature increase until after the artic was quite dry. As the author says, a picture is a story. His story is "at a…

Were you alive in the 90s? I'm just wondering out loud.

In this post, we see the strange assumption that large corporations inherently make more efficient bureaucrats than elected officials.

You can't handle the truth.

Look, I'm not going to argue with you because you have no idea what you're talking about. Go away.

Do the same thing you would do in SQL, run the efficient query (you're almost guaranteed have a view for date limited for a specific customer) then filter it based on product. This…

You don't seem to understand how stored views work. This computation cost is felt at insertion time and is not theoretically worse than the exact same computation cost at insertion…

You know, I was going to point out how amazingly brain dead that comparison was, and how inappropriate it was to try to guess my skill level in various languages based on my claim …

I've had this before, it works pretty well to say "do not contact me again" and go on with your life as if it never happened.

Yea, I'm 100% ready for touch screens to become a reality so I can start playing with more complicated keyboards. The idea of physical keys (even with a better layout like Dvorak) …

I easily program software 50x faster in python than C. If I didn't, I would be using C for speed.

They promote offline caching, so I'm betting speediness was because his edits were modifying a local db then going through diff resolution after they displayed.

Every single day when we don't program in COBOL. I'm at a bit of a loss, have you never switched to a more productive language and cringed when you went back to the old language?

You're effectively arguing that all languages/frameworks are equal within an order of magnitude. I think this has been demonstrated false time and time again, and you even demonstr…

This language looks pretty awesome, reading the example code I can see how it would slash my loc for ajaxy stuff by at least an order of magnitude. However, I am confused about thi…

Programming languages aren't that hard, so I'd say, if it makes them way more productive later, then no it's not a waste of time.

Exactly what compensation do you think entry level employees should be getting? Exactly what should the be making 10 years later after you've (nearly) doubled their salary.

Yea, but it's right pinky which is weaker for most people. By moving it you also gain the -_ being on the home row (which you type less than semi-colon while programming in syntax …

Copyright is not patent. Patents expire inside our lifetimes. H.264 will be a viable product for startups to use in 2017. (As an aside, don't cast this as a FF vs. the world, paten…

As a dvorak programmer, it just prompted me to write more python. If you're typing {} characters all day, you should consider how much semantic value that's adding to your programs…