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The whole damned Internet is engineered around Postel's Law, so expecting HTML to be any different is a faint hope. Plus it'd piss off too many people.

"You don't have to worry about memory management" is a common selling point for garbage collected languages, but it's a real work of fiction. It's entirely possible to create gigantic memory leaks in Java or whatever by just not hanging on to your object references when you're done with t...

after spending a weekend writing javascript, i conclude 95% of the errors i get are due to ridiculous things a proper language would catch at compile time, or the bizarre variable scope Have you considered playing with TypeScript or Dart? Both of those languages compile to JS but have sane typing. ...

It also sort of lets you swap backends in and out more easily. I often see this listed as a feature but it is never, ever one that I've cared about. I don't wake up in the morning and be like "whelp we're switching to Oracle today" then next week be "changed my mind MariaDB looks new...

Yeah, a lot of the newer application stacks prefer that you do things like that. It doesn't help that most of them learned "relational" databases on MySQL (which barely counts as one) so it's no wonder the ORM layers push all the business logic out of the database. It also sort of lets you...

What version of Rails are you using? I hear ActiveRecord in 4.x is much improved (and from people who like relational databases and Rails)

adr wrote:David Heinemeier Hansson is an incompetent fool.

this has been a public service announcement brought to you by someone who actually understands relational databases yet is forced to use ruby on rails

But but my magic ORM

evilsoup wrote:I think mental breakdown is putting things a bit strongly
he probably just lost interest in the site

Yeah, uh, he's super-active on Facebook.

adr wrote:it is now up to firefox 28????????

wtf

That's what a six-week release cadence does If you want more stability look at Firefox ESR

Sailor Moon remake begins July 2014

A have chosen a Seasonic 450w PSU. Seasonic makes good PSUs (and OEM for a bunch of other people, too). ALSO, important thing here. I was looking at G.Skill Snipers and I see some with voltage above 1.5 V. It's important that you not use >1.5 V RAM with recent Intel processors because it might burn...

AIM is pretty much on life support at this point.

The Cardinal of the Kremlin , maybe? Cardinal of the Kremlin is actually a ripper - best balance I think between Clancy's own technothriller methodology and that of the traditional Cold War spy novel. It's probably my favorite of his novels; I think Sum of All Fears is decent if a little out there,...

when was the last time Clancy put out a decent novel? The Cardinal of the Kremlin , maybe? Today marks the end of the first quarter of SDN's 12th year of operation. Time to update the posts per day count for the three quarters since the last time I did this. That's a pretty brutal decline. I wonder...

Should just pay Amazon or Google to implement core infrastructure and data for the exchanges.

evilsoup wrote:

That's a pretty spot-on parallel. Are there any references to it in the show or..?
I didn't know about the air-spirits bit of that story, I thought it ended with her just dying.

adr wrote:but selinux is so hard to use child accounts would be easy to use.

so maybe selinux isn't that hard to use???????

It's a pain in the ass to set up properly (like most Mandatory Access Control systems).

evilsoup wrote:actually can anyone recommend anything else in this genre, I've been suitably impressed that I want to see more.

I was fond of Magic Knights Rayearth and Sailor Moon (though it's full of filler)

evilsoup wrote:

but why do animes always kill off my favourite characters, poor Sayaka

TEO is down. Database index corruption, apparently. checkers (apparently aka Draughts) is fucking hard. like i'm not too bad at chess, but i get pwned like a n00b in checkers almost every time. the internet tells me it was a lot harder for computers to figure out than chess too No, you're just bad....

If you don't do something about people missing payments, many of them will just ignore it and not pay you. Is this acceptable to you? Actually, my preferred solution there is to just eat that loss and politely decline future job offers from them, unless paid up front. (Which is a pretty good way to...

what amount should i ask for? (doubly so after the stuff is done, since at this point they might feel blindsided and not really be able to say no). Shouldn't this be negotiated ahead of time? when should i say it is due? When it's done? You could give them Net 30 (45, 60, etc. terms, too.) There's ...

my tumblr got a few new followers lately are any of them you butts is broke girls more racist than is normal for television or is it just par for the course ie openly racist in a way people like to say isn't racism? I've never seen it It's openly racist in their portrayal of the owner of the diner,...

adr wrote:ugh "two broke girls" on cbs.... i don't get this show

racist stereotypes and rape jokes

is this supposed to be funny?

Holy shit that show is terrible and the creator of it doesn't even get how racist he is.

Darksi4190 wrote:Warning! Do not watch the Nostalgia Critic's Sailor Moon review if you are prone to getting shitty theme music stuck in your goddamn head. He plays enough of the theme to get it worked in there for a couple of days at least.

What, no, Moonlight Destiny forever

Have any of you ever read Scalzi's Redshirts? I want to talk about it with non-crazy people (or at least non-sdn people who will get the joke), but don't want to spoil it. It's too awesome to spoil. Redshirts was super-fun, so go ahead and spoil (or just go in the 'reviewing scifi' thread?) here's ...