victorma

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   by victorma 14y ago

   > I would argue that data fetching from DBs or caches will be the majority of execution time. People keep saying that, and I would like to see some numbers for that also. The DB dataset could be already cached in memory, for example.
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   by victorma 14y ago

   Yes, because academic publishing should keep up with the latest tech news and gossip, that's its main use and strength.
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   by victorma 14y ago

   It's supported in places where a vector format is not (namely, older versions of IE that don't support SVG). Plus, icons are easier to handle as a regular text/font asset, than as SVG, and you can use all the tools available for web typogra