DavidAbrams

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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
+1 for saying "key/value" instead of "key-value".
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Hooray, ANOTHER Parse post on the front page!
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Yay, more Parse spam.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Thanks!
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
But it's not without its idiotic blunders. Topping the list is Apple's insistence that your user ID be an E-mail address. That's not just a bad idea, but it has resulted in untold numbers of people with numerous Apple IDs and content boug
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Seems like quoted keys are a pain in the ass. That's the only useful change I see here.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
It's too bad, though, because all the extra quotes bloat what is otherwise a nice, spare format.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
You didn't answer his question, except in regard to comments. Everything else you said is based simply on the non-standard nature of this dialect.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
How about fixing the log-in system? It claims "bad login" for valid credentials, doesn't say what's bad about it, and doesn't provide any way to reset supposedly bad passwords.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
That works only in a simple example like this, where you can make contact with all of the undesired objects without making contact with the desired ones. This is almost never the case in a real-world illustration.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Because you remember the name of every program on your computer, including that seldom-used demuxing utility you downloaded last year.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Yeah, I don't do that. I write the math expressions in the queries.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
And yet conveniently cited as a feature of the database engine when it suits you.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
We're talking about TURNAROUND TIME, not what happened years ago. This is something that took five years TO happen.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
As several have pointed out: You are paying.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
That "memo" (otherwise known as a rumor) has already gone back and forth, and I have better things to do than baby-sit Microsoft's UI regressions. Actually, the Start menu itself was a regression. What is it being replaced with?
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Yes, extensively Mac OS. Now you want to talk about a turd, that is it. PackageMaker is abandonware and an absolute fiasco. I don't even know where to begin documenting how this "product" fails at its primary task so utterly. Have you ev
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Love it.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
I pointed out that they never give a specific reason for preferring spaces. At least you did that. You can still achieve what you want, and even faster, by using tabs to get your subsequent parameter lines most of the way there and then pa
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
I thought I saw that too. It turns out that it falls back to Flash if your browser doesn't support HTML 5's "audio" tag. If anything, maybe this will prompt Apple and Mozilla to get on the ball and support it.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
OK, then why shouldn't there be a special function to assess the cost of the beer in any specified currency at the time of the query? Should there be special functions for querying the characteristics of JPEGs stored as BLOBs? How about PN
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
MariaDB
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
The article's arguments aren't that convincing. Geospatial indexing? That's an application-specific function that shouldn't be bloating a database engine. If anything, the grocery list of crap mentioned by this article makes me DOUBT Pos
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
It took what, five years to fix the glaring design flaw where you couldn't use NOW() as the default in a datetime field. Seriously, this was just fixed a few weeks ago after years of outrage over it, and it was fixed by an outsider: http:
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
As he already pointed out: IT'S NOT FREE. Google (read their terms) reserves the right to mine your communications for information that they then sell to advertisers. You're doing THEM at least as much a service.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
How is it a flame? The guy asked how things were going to change to prevent this from happening. That's a legitimate question that EVERY user should be demanding an answer to.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Or hey, get a real host, domain, and E-mail account. In other news: Someone else's blog is under my Blogger account, and there's absolutely no way to contact Google about it. The new credo of doing business is HIDE FROM THE CUSTOMER. It's
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Yay, CROSSBARS ON THE "I"! Really, really tired of capital I's that look like lower-case L's. These should be banished. And the above is the only time an apostrophe makes a plural.
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Back in the day, a lot of programming revolved around reporting. One reason I can think of would be laying out columns on reports, on terminals that didn't support proportional fonts. A lot of people rail against tabs; most of the time, th
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by DavidAbrams 14y ago
Too bad a search on "IRB" turns up mainly "institutional review board."

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