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I'm not a lisp user, but I've used xml + xslt to generate xslt that processes xml to xhtml and I liked it ;)
Re:Show HN: Self-hosted stack-based programming language on Monday June 29, 2015 @04:20AM (#9796934)
I miss semicolons ;)
Re:Introducing HypoPG, hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:28AM (#9777356)
And that's why people use NOSQL. It's much more predictable in production use.
What we need is declarative html markup again (JS optional).

CSS also should be optional.

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

Before they announced this, I actually considered getting a Facebook account.
Re:Looking Forward: Support for Secure Shell on Wednesday June 03, 2015 @01:45AM (#9650779)
> 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).

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.
Re:Postgres gets support for upsert on Friday May 08, 2015 @12:52AM (#9510014)
Does it handle locking (aka no deadlocks) correctly?
Re:PostgreSQL vs. MS SQL Server on Thursday April 30, 2015 @09:01AM (#9464753)
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?

Exactly. IMO all css/html features that conflict with this should be deprecated and REMOVED from the standard.
How does one use it? Apart from reading view?
Re:Reproducible Builds in Go on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:54AM (#9457602)
Does JIT (or late/deploy time optimize/link) help here? Would it be easier to make deterministic builds when optimizer is not involved?
Re:Why We Are No Longer Developing for the iPad on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:09AM (#9392646)
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.
Re:Announcing Git Large File Storage on Thursday April 09, 2015 @01:53PM (#9349548)
Can it link to torrent?
Unfortunately, 'localhost' is not multiuser safe. So a better (cross browser!) alternative would be OK.
Re:Goodbye MongoDB, Hello PostgreSQL on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @04:27AM (#9183103)
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.

Is http://localhost / 127.0.0.1 considered secure?
Re:Signing in to websites with SSH on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:00AM (#8971762)
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.
Re:Systemd redux: The end of Linux on Friday November 21, 2014 @04:12AM (#8640464)
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).

Re:Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox? on Friday November 14, 2014 @09:23AM (#8607212)
When one can run Visual Studio on OSX/Linux...
Re:Google Warns: bit.ly Links Are Unsafe on Saturday October 25, 2014 @07:25AM (#8507879)
To signal spam content ;)
Re:Uselessd on Friday October 24, 2014 @07:09AM (#8503063)
"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.

Systemd is great step ahead in theory. Seems even to be quite stable in practice. Binary logs by default are a disastrous decision however.
Re:Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day on Monday September 29, 2014 @04:52AM (#8382114)
It'd be a good idea to have Keyboard only day for UI designers...
Is there a "Ctrl+tab" extension that works properly with this?
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).
Re:Microsoft OCR Library for Windows Runtime on Friday September 19, 2014 @06:22AM (#8339753)
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.
Re:Taming the Asynchronous Beast with CSP in JavaScript on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @05:33AM (#8289342)
If you add shared memory threads (like in c++, c#, java) to Javascript, I'm disabling it forever.
Re:Open Source alternative to Evernote on Monday September 08, 2014 @08:57AM (#8284450)
I think it's because I have "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" Firefox feature disabled.
Re:Open Source alternative to Evernote on Monday September 08, 2014 @07:01AM (#8284148)
Nope, the thing seems to work.

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