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There's no such thing as a performance measurement "on all workloads".

It's written in the article?

That was the whole point in theory, yes. But in reality, almost all new gTLD registrations are being made as brand protection, and redirecting to the company's existing .com domain…

Why does there even need to be such thing as a TLD? :P I'm guessing the idea is similar to .London, .NYC, .Amsterdam, ... i.e. it would be used for a geographic indicator/market.

> Restricted gTLDs should have only been for trademarked company names, like .google or .microsoft Unfortunately however, there are a lot of grey areas... To name a few: * Amazon h…

Shell/batch scripting can often be useful in the devops world, where you have no guarantee that any additional tools (python, ruby, perl, powershell, whatever) wil be available. Sh…

> If the POSIX standard is going to require backreferences, then it should also require a non-backtracking implementation for regular expressions without backreferences At least in…

No one really knows for sure, but.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length

Yes, however that was 3 and a half months ago -- and as far as I can tell, there's been no movement towards doing so.

Funny how the conclusion is basically "Don't use `var`, use `let` instead" - even though almost all documentation/examples exclusively use the `var` keyword!

> Designers suck at code. Coders suck at design. Keep that shit separate. I currently work in a small-ish company, where I am the ONLY person designing/developing multiple systems.…

[1] pry(main)> 10..100 => 10..100 [2] pry(main)> (10..100).class => Range [3] pry(main)> (10..100).to_a => [10, 11, 12, 13, 14, ..., 99, 100]

Yes, you can. Ordering has been guaranteed since ruby v1.9, very much intentionally. The implementation of a ruby hash is now as a doubly linked list [0]. This has inevitably cause…

* No comparison with other time periods, and their respective tuition fees. * No comparison with other countries, and their respective policies. * No data on where these students g…

> this would never pass a code review, the expectation of "foo?" is that it returns true/false. 95% of the time, yes. However, the "official" rule is simply that such methods must …

> According to his numbers, the mode is precisely 0. I was referring to the fact that the graphs - e.g. https://theoverspill.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/screenshot-... - are using …

I'm confused... How can the mode number of searches be 0.5?! "More people perform half a search every day, than any other amount." -- What?! I guess maybe that's more like "the mod…

> Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords, even if some people use them as passwords. This doesn't make sense. You cannot "use a username as a password". Fingerprints, retina sca…

It's also worth noting that (at least in the UK) such notice periods are not legally binding. You can only be forced to give a notice period up to your payroll pay frequency. So fo…

> the claim that [...] What are you talking about? The comment I replied to didn't make any such claims! > passwords must be changeable Not necessarily. What about fingerprints? > …

There are plenty of sites that allow you to change your username!

> If I could stealthily patch the compiler for any language supporting the "\v" escape so I'd receive mail whenever it occurred in source code, then I could trace actual uses of it…

Ohh right, so your plan would be to essentially check for third-party javascript things running on the same page? This would be a really easy "security" measure to circumvent, thou…

I don't know much javascript, but that looks extremely error prone to me. How would it behave in different monitor sizes? With zoomed in/out screens? On mobiles, tablets, etc? And …