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Haha. You beat me to it!

by aculver 15y ago

d0m 15y ago
I went from 999 to 992. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut, but it was worth it. But tbh, I have nothing against PHP; it was just a joke.
- aculver 15y ago
  And it was a good joke! I worked with PHP from 2004 to 2010. I worked with PEAR packages, early-adopted and watched the evolution of Zend Framework, ran both the local PHP user group and company's internal PHP user group, used ORM solutions like Doctrine and wrote my own, laughed along when people were handing out "Fails" stickers at php|tek (a play on the Rails logo), helped write some PHP coursework in college, etc. If I can't poke fun at PHP, who can? I started using Rails for personal projects last year. When the opportunity arose, I was happy to join a consulting company that primarily uses Rails for web-based application development. Rails 3 (and now Rails 3.1) is awesome. Your joke is my recommendation to the folks I worked with that still do PHP all day: Check out some of the other things that are going on in the Ruby and Python communities. The developer experience is so much better.
- d0m 15y ago
  Wow, I went from 999 to 964.. that's 35 down-votes! This is insane, but not surprising coming from PHP folks. (Too serious to laugh, too stupid to switch, too stubborn to think, too old to learn, amen.)
  - rmc 15y ago
    It isn't PHP folks who are down voting you, it's the Hacker News community. You didn't add anything to this conversation, so you were down voted. Please read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you want that sort of conversation, go to reddit.
    - aculver 15y ago
      Point taken. :) Sorry. Removing my post (and taking most of this thread with it.) EDIT: Except I didn't realize I can't do that after folks have replied. Anyways, it's pretty clear a lot of folks didn't find it funny or appreciate it. I went from about 90 karma to 55 or so. Sorry to be a bother.
      - rmc 15y ago
        No problem. Everyone makes mistakes. Just learn from your experience and move on. We try to keep a high level of conversation here. Please try to keep things civil, and make comments that actually add to the conversation. Thanks :)
  - d0m 15y ago
    924, and continuing. That'll make a nice karma average. We see clearly the revenge of the PHP dumpshit.

Haha. You beat me to it!

by aculver 15y ago

Haha. You beat me to it!

d0m 15y ago

I went from 999 to 992. I guess I should have kept my mouth shut, but it was worth it. But tbh, I have nothing against PHP; it was just a joke.

aculver 15y ago
And it was a good joke! I worked with PHP from 2004 to 2010. I worked with PEAR packages, early-adopted and watched the evolution of Zend Framework, ran both the local PHP user group and company's internal PHP user group, used ORM solutions like Doctrine and wrote my own, laughed along when people were handing out "Fails" stickers at php|tek (a play on the Rails logo), helped write some PHP coursework in college, etc. If I can't poke fun at PHP, who can? I started using Rails for personal projects last year. When the opportunity arose, I was happy to join a consulting company that primarily uses Rails for web-based application development. Rails 3 (and now Rails 3.1) is awesome. Your joke is my recommendation to the folks I worked with that still do PHP all day: Check out some of the other things that are going on in the Ruby and Python communities. The developer experience is so much better.
d0m 15y ago
Wow, I went from 999 to 964.. that's 35 down-votes! This is insane, but not surprising coming from PHP folks. (Too serious to laugh, too stupid to switch, too stubborn to think, too old to learn, amen.)
- rmc 15y ago
  It isn't PHP folks who are down voting you, it's the Hacker News community. You didn't add anything to this conversation, so you were down voted. Please read the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html If you want that sort of conversation, go to reddit.
  - aculver 15y ago
    Point taken. :) Sorry. Removing my post (and taking most of this thread with it.) EDIT: Except I didn't realize I can't do that after folks have replied. Anyways, it's pretty clear a lot of folks didn't find it funny or appreciate it. I went from about 90 karma to 55 or so. Sorry to be a bother.
    - rmc 15y ago
      No problem. Everyone makes mistakes. Just learn from your experience and move on. We try to keep a high level of conversation here. Please try to keep things civil, and make comments that actually add to the conversation. Thanks :)
- d0m 15y ago
  924, and continuing. That'll make a nice karma average. We see clearly the revenge of the PHP dumpshit.