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Thanks for the honest description of what really happened there. I've also had the experience of needing to rewrite a query that used a bunch of safe ORM statements but was painfully slow into a big, messy raw SQL query that was probably less safe in order to restore performance. It's easier than many would think to miss whether or not some check was performed somewhere along the line when it's in the middle of a complex process.

Meanwhile, Ars still has a few decent articles/departments, but it seems like 50% of their content is tabloid-grade cheap and mindless bashing of anyone who disagrees with the elite mainstream opinion. Probably like 80% of the mainstream media right now is even worse.

I wonder how Ars would fare if somebody was to tally up all of the boneheadedly stupid mistakes they've made in journalism, grammar, spelling, site administration, etc, and publish articles trashing the specific employee who did it each time.



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