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silon3··on John Carmack working on Scheme as a VR scripting language
I'm not a lisp user, but I've used xml + xslt to generate xslt that processes xml to xhtml and I liked it ;)
silon3··on Show HN: Self-hosted stack-based programming language
I miss semicolons ;)
silon3··on Introducing HypoPG, hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL
And that's why people use NOSQL. It's much more predictable in production use.
silon3··on Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Others Team Up to Launch WebAssembly
What we need is declarative html markup again (JS optional).

CSS also should be optional.

Otherwise, long live adblock, noscript, user stylesheets, ...

silon3··on Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger protocol
Before they announced this, I actually considered getting a Facebook account.
silon3··on Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell
> You are right. The guy that wrote PowerShell says that UNIX is document oriented configuration while windows is API oriented configuration.

That's an interesting way of putting it. I strongly prefer the Unix way then,(just avoid turing complete config languages).

silon3··on Postgres upsert on duplicate and how other databases implement upsert
This needs some comment on proper usage (locking, isolation, ...) of these to avoid deadlocks (one thread inserts, other updates at the same time, ...). Without this this incomplete and of limited use.
silon3··on Postgres gets support for upsert
Does it handle locking (aka no deadlocks) correctly?
silon3··on PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server
I use MSSQL on a current project and really don't like it's query optimizer. It relies too much on statistics which means that slightly complex queries get random behavior really quickly, especially in the beginning as the database if growing.

IMO, completely unsuitable for web apps where DBA is not sitting around 24/7.

Is PostgreSQL better at this?

silon3··on There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers
Exactly. IMO all css/html features that conflict with this should be deprecated and REMOVED from the standard.
silon3··on There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers
How does one use it? Apart from reading view?
silon3··on Reproducible Builds in Go
Does JIT (or late/deploy time optimize/link) help here? Would it be easier to make deterministic builds when optimizer is not involved?
silon3··on Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad
What I find intolerable on a Mac is the behavior of ctrl+left/right. I expect it to jump to previous/next word and nothing else.
silon3··on Announcing Git Large File Storage
Can it link to torrent?
silon3··on Chrome team planning to block all access from browser to localhost wss
Unfortunately, 'localhost' is not multiuser safe. So a better (cross browser!) alternative would be OK.
silon3··on Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL
Agreed. Also it should be generating queries based on foreign keys/indexes (including joins).

Others should not be allowed in an interactive app anyway: developer should be warned/prevented using a "batch" query by accident.

silon3··on Blink - Intent to deprecate: Insecure usage of powerful features
Is http://localhost / 127.0.0.1 considered secure?
silon3··on Signing in to websites with SSH
Yup, it's not really specific to SSH. The same problems occur using SSL X509 client certificates. Non-technical users will get confused unless they have a smart card/token that secures their private key.
silon3··on Systemd redux: The end of Linux
Using sane/standard logging should be the first thing an installer asks before installing systemd based OS. In fact, just make separate .isos for this.

(and I like systemd, at least in theory - and running Fedora 20).

silon3··on Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?
When one can run Visual Studio on OSX/Linux...
silon3··on Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe
To signal spam content ;)
silon3··on Uselessd
"like" (it happened to me)

No journald. Consequently, this also means no libqrencode and libmicrohttpd integration, nor hooking coredumps to the journal. The default log target for auxiliaries is now LOG_TARGET_SYSLOG_OR_KMSG.

The main case against binary logs is their corruptibility. This happens more often than you’d think, due to not having any transaction consistency, as an RDBMS would. The advice of the systemd developers on handling this? Ignore it.

silon3··on "Open Source is awful in many ways, and people should be aware of this"
Systemd is great step ahead in theory. Seems even to be quite stable in practice. Binary logs by default are a disastrous decision however.
silon3··on Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
It'd be a good idea to have Keyboard only day for UI designers...
silon3··on Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox
Is there a "Ctrl+tab" extension that works properly with this?
silon3··on Electrolysis – run web content in a separate process from Firefox
I wish it had an option to reorder that tab (move it to end / bottom in TreeStyleTabs). (also, reverse order of tabs in TreeStyleTabs would be great).
silon3··on Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime
It's crazy that it's Windows Store only. On my only Windows machine the Windows Store won't even open because I have UAC disabled.
silon3··on Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP in JavaScript
If you add shared memory threads (like in c++, c#, java) to Javascript, I'm disabling it forever.
silon3··on Open Source alternative to Evernote
I think it's because I have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" Firefox feature disabled.
silon3··on Open Source alternative to Evernote
Nope, the thing seems to work.
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