Interesting Links for February 2015

kqr tries to sort out the "what are monads" fallacy.

Ditching Flash for HTML5 is not the win for privacy it could have been.

Mozilla's add-on review is taking a long time, and is considered harmful by some.

ionel writes about his experience with MySQL, where the lesson is "take care when choosing the database for your application, it can get messy!"

Balanced ternary notation is surprizingly beautiful.