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Comment bugzilla (Score 1) 428

you need to write a front end to draw lines

but it has a database backend that you can augment, has prioritization,
dependencies, user assignment, completion estimates and completion dates

it may suck, but it seems substantially more useful than the tools that were made
for the purpose

Comment Re:What's the big deal? (Score 1) 533

except for -
    - security leaks
    - differential pricing
    - security agencies deciding that you dont fit a common pattern and
        targetting you for additional surveillance
    - impact on your credit rating
    - ability to get certain kinds of insurance at all
    - when the marketers in question aren't just selecting legitimate ads, but scams
    - we just changed our privacy policy and the last 10 years of data on
        you is available to anyone for the low low price of 0.0001 USD
    - our company was acquired by a company whose contact information is a p.o. box in moldava ....
   

Comment Re:How does it deal with replication latency? (Score 1) 137

this isn't true. a fully recoverable abstraction can be maintained without digging into
the architecture. you just need a point periodically where you flush everything and define a
consistent checkpoint

personally i prefer doing this in the database, or operating system, or application, but suggesting
that you cant do this underneath is simply wrong. it just comes down to performance

Comment Re:bad design (Score 1) 381

actually, fuck off. language design people have distilled the semantics of sql down to something with is actually composable, compilable, able to be evaluated in a distributed context, and actually..useful. datalog. mercury.

sql is a festering sore. its a poorly conceived idea that for random reasons survived

Comment Re:Fool's errand (Score 1) 109

unfortunately thats not sufficient. you also need the us govt to throw you tens of millions in
'research contracts' that dont amount to anything, and have them agree to buy your overpriced
machines even though they dont really do anything useful

even then its a pretty difficult market

Comment Re:ITU, the folk who should run the WWW. (Score 1) 220

obviously you haven't worked with the itu in the past. they had a whole replacement for the internet worked
out. trees worth of documnets written in languages and metalanugages where the shift was not entirely clear. all
just to describe an ananlogue of tpc/ip

despite is inherent us-centrism i think the ietf did a great job.

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