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Re:RJSON: compress JSON to JSON on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @09:51AM (#4068603)
If your HTTP connection is going to be gzip compressed, then manual compression of this kind is not guaranteed to reduce the size of the final result, and may in fact hurt it.
Re:SASS is awesome - here's why… on Tuesday May 22, 2012 @02:45PM (#4009232)
What's the value-add over LESS?
Re:Redundant Array of Independent Clouds on Saturday May 19, 2012 @09:16PM (#3997604)
Nice idea! This paper (http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~hweather/publications/racs-socc20...) called RACS from Cornell explored the same space about two years ago, but it's really nice to see it rendered to practice in usable filesystem form.