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Re:Senna, a fast single page application engine on Friday August 22, 2014 @11:19AM (#8212464)
I don't see why you'd want history support in your infinite scrolling or carousels.

That seems like irritating behaviour to me.

Re:DocumentDB on Friday August 22, 2014 @05:09AM (#8211392)
The Search API is pretty much for searching text, whereas this is a database.

Also the Search API is terrible.

Re:Python 3 can revive Python on Tuesday May 27, 2014 @11:45AM (#7805032)
Here's a small reason I found when refactoring some code today:

http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3102/

Like I said, it's a small reason, but it would have made my life much easier today. Enough small reasons add up.

Re:Skype group video calling becomes free on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @08:45AM (#7666531)
On Windows, if Internet Explorer is not your default browser (or possibly if Chrome is your default browser, not sure), Skype uses far more CPU.

Sounds weird, but it definitely made a difference for me.

Re:Moves joins Facebook on Thursday April 24, 2014 @12:16PM (#7641197)
Re:Why I Went From Python To Go (and not Node.js) (2012) on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @05:51AM (#7596861)
He's making fun of himself as an 'enlightened Python programmer'. It's not his honest opinion of the language.