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turboturbo | 6 years ago | on: ID editor: It is time for us to end this abusive relationship

I followed the hyperlinks to some of the discussion. In my opinion, the author’s characterisation doesn’t match the tone of the iD developer.

The author might be right about the lack of community involvement, but imho he takes an overly negative an accusatory stance

turboturbo | 7 years ago | on: Prisma – Database tools for modern application development

I’ve tried Prisma over the last few months, but eventually decided against adopting it in our product because it seems very inflexible when working with many-to-many relationships. In particular, filtering on foreign keys doesn’t seem possible and requires SQL table joins, which (in our case) has an immensely negative performance impact. Also, the query chaining API doesn’t lend itself well to filtering on multiple relationships. Apart from that, the idea seems really cool and I’m sure the project has a great future ahead of it!

turboturbo | 7 years ago | on: Apple updates its iMac line

If you’re in the market for this model, do yourself a favour and don’t buy the base configuration with the unusably slow 5400 rpm HDD. I bought the previous model with that hard drive and the startup performance is appalling

turboturbo | 7 years ago | on: Cessna 188 Pacific Rescue

Flying at a lower speed than cruise speed will allow you to save fuel (per unit of time, not distance). The plane looks quite lightweight.

Perhaps the plane was equipped with long-range fuel tanks? I agree that it sounds like a very long time for this kind of plane.

turboturbo | 7 years ago | on: Fonts for Complex Data

I can see why your comment is being downvoted — the lack of explanation makes it seem more provocative — but I agree with your sentiment.

Although a settlement was reached in the H&FJ lawsuit, which probably involved Tobias Frere-Jones receiving payment of some sorts, it’s hard to see Hoefler profiting from work that he (morally, at least) stole.

turboturbo | 7 years ago | on: House of Commons committee re-invites Mark Zuckerburg to appear [pdf]

I’m surprised that neither these questions nor those by U.S. Congress last month include a request to provide an exhaustive list of all types of data that Facebook has on its users, including data bought from third parties (e.g. credit score) or acquired via subsidiaries (e.g. browser history from that Vonavo VPN app). Or am I missing something, and is such a list available somewhere?
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