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silon3 | 10 years ago | 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 | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Self-hosted stack-based programming language

I miss semicolons ;)

silon3 | 10 years ago | on: Introducing HypoPG, hypothetical indexes for PostgreSQL

And that's why people use NOSQL. It's much more predictable in production use.

silon3 | 10 years ago | 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 | 10 years ago | on: Pidgin working on implementation of Facebook Messenger protocol

Before they announced this, I actually considered getting a Facebook account.

silon3 | 10 years ago | 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 | 10 years ago | 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 | 10 years ago | on: Postgres gets support for upsert

Does it handle locking (aka no deadlocks) correctly?

silon3 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | on: There are now at least eight Chromium-based Android default browsers

How does one use it? Apart from reading view?

silon3 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | on: Announcing Git Large File Storage

Can it link to torrent?

silon3 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | on: Blink - Intent to deprecate: Insecure usage of powerful features

Is http://localhost / 127.0.0.1 considered secure?

silon3 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | 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 | 11 years ago | on: Why Is Google Blocking Inbox on Firefox?

When one can run Visual Studio on OSX/Linux...