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nicc··on Why REST Sucks
What about PATCH?

I personally like PUT even for delta updates, but a dev I was working with was obsessed with wanting PATCH.

nicc··on Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates
No, it will not.

YT doesn't squeeze video creators, so he will not squeeze musicians.

Even if YT did, they would be free to move to another platform.

nicc··on Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret
My bank (Fineco) requires passwords to be 8 characters.

Yup, I don't mean minimum or maximum, but exactly 8 characters.

That's got to make brute-forcing about 1,000,000 times easier, and I cannot think of a single good reason to impose this.

I bet huge numbers are "12345678" and "password".

nicc··on Turbolinks: SPA-like Experience without the SPA-framework Hassle
I don't think you'll find anyone who thinks it's hard to build 1 SPA without a framework.

The thing is that if you build 2, 3, 100, you'll find yourself doing the same stuff over and over again (and always better than the previous time, so that you'll want to replace all your old code, which is now obsolete), and that's when frameworks are useful.

nicc··on PostgreSQL 10 Beta 1 Released
Can someone give me an ELI5 on why PostgreSQL is better than MySQL?

I've had to update some software than used it for some reason (there were just a handful of records, it was a super-small app) and compared to MySQL I only found that I couldn't easily find a good GUI tool to look at the database (I use Sequel Pro for MySQL, which is absolutely great). I found Postico and I was never able to export the whole DB.

(I'm not saying PostgreSQL isn't better, I just have no idea why).

nicc··on Guide to Italian Bakeries
As an Italian, I must say that most of the information in the article is wrong.
nicc··on Glitch by Fog Creek
Wow, so when he says "We have developed some unique messaging technology with applications outside of the gaming world and a smaller core team will be working to develop new products." he's talking about Slack..?
nicc··on Apple proposes new web 3D graphics API
Apple proposing standards is ridiculous.

They only care about standards when they're basically forced to adopt/support them, or they're their own.

These are the same guys that:

- use lightning instead of mini USB

- removed the headphone jack

- are creating yet another proprietary connector for accessories

- don't allow their OS on third-party hardware

- only allow developing for iOS from macOS

- only allow apps on iOS if you install from the App Store

- only allow their own browser engine on iOS

- etc.

Everyone wants their own standard to be the standard, if they really cared about it they would contribute to Vulkan and create WebVulkan.

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