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An actual PHP hammer with the claw on both sides
- guccimane 15y agoI don't see what all the fuss is. A good craftsman could build a house no matter what hammer he chooses. Don't be such a snob about insisting that hammers must have heads to drive nails, just because all the hammers you've used before happened to have them.
- tptacek 15y agoFor that matter, why do they even need handles? Primitive ape-men just used big rocks as their tools. If it's good enough for the ape-men...!
- Roboprog 15y agoHey, you read the article that inspired the artifact! linked...
- chris_wot 15y agoI'll have you know that a good Ape man doesn't need a stick. He uses his eye-socket!
- jrockway 15y agoA rock would be too simple; this is PHP, after all. (Where's my NailDriverDeviceFactoryModuleImpl?)
- wladimir 15y agoYou're confused with Java. In PHP it is simple, just counter-intuitive and set up to mislead you. It would look like a rock but turn into a viscous liquid as soon as you try to hit the nail and the nails get stuck in it.
- wtracy 15y agoIn Java it would be: DeviceFactoryFactory().createDeviceFactory().getNailDriverDeviceFactoryModuleImpl();
- angusgr 15y agohttp://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom-of-nouns.html http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com.au/2006/03/execution-in-king... For the lack of a nail, throw new HorseshoeNailNotFoundException("no nails!");
- lloeki 15y agoSounds like a description of a non-newtonian fluid, like maize flour mixed with water (which you can compact in your hand but liquefies when thrown), or quicksand.
- johnrob 15y agoI once watched an ape-man try to use modern tools. He didn't get anything done, because he spent all his time trying to figure out how to use them. Simple people need simple tools. We thus can't complain about the existence of such tools.
- MartinCron 15y agoYou had a great opportunity to use the word "peen" in context and you let it go. Shame.
- wyck 15y agoMy hammer makes your hammer look ..well. ape-ish, http://i.imgur.com/R5CwZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/R5CwZ.jpg
- polynomial 15y agoFixed. http://i.imgur.com/CO1tv.png http://i.imgur.com/CO1tv.png
- ricksta 15y agothanks that gave me a laugh!
- DanWaterworth 15y agoThe fuss is that good tools don't require you to be a prize-winning craftsman to do day-to-day things.
- ertdfgcb 15y agoWow, he did a really good job of making that weld disappear.
- bigiain 15y agoYeah, I love how it's two perfectly good hammers, cut in half ; with the most important bit thrown away, and the rest "cut-n-pasted" together, then lovingly smoothed over so you cant tell… I think I've seen that before…
- gooddelta 15y agoQuite possibly the best thing I've seen this month. You can hammer nails using the side... Sorta.
- redstar504 15y agoWhere do I place an order?
- liamcampbell 15y agoI'm sure there's a joke somewhere in its resemblance to a Ruby pickax, but I'll leave it for someone else to sort out.
- K2h 15y agoIf you offset one side, it might actually be useful for longer nails that are already started, you could turn the Hamm... I mean claw tool around and continue to extract the nail where you don't have to tilt the handle all the way down and put that narly bend in the nail. Nice job on the construction.
- Jebus 15y agoMore PHP envy? Get over it, PHP > all, and that's not gonna change anytime soon
- vibrunazo 15y agoI want one with JavaScript written on it. And a curved nail with DOM written on it.
- jboggan 15y agoI don't know what exactly to call this corner of the world, but this is exactly why I love it.
- brendanobrien 15y agocouldn't agree more.
- lennexz 15y agogood job...I better that hammer does the job better than most "normal" hammers out there. Just like php!!!
- skrebbel 15y agowant!! If you're going to make more, please announce; I'm buying.
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- seldo 15y agoHow do I nominate a double-clawed hammer as the new logo of PHP?
- fredley 15y agohttp://php.net/download-logos.php http://php.net/download-logos.php > In case you have found some PHP logos, icons or other material around the web, feel free to point those out to us, so we can include them here, if appropriate.
- gyaresu 15y agoI've seen worse Kickstarters.
- Androsynth 15y agoThis thread has very much of a "She's a witch! Burn her!!" vibe going on.
- steelaz 15y agoRight now this is the top post on HN. Why?
- lennexz 15y agobecause no matter what people say is wrong with php it still does the job. We love php!!!
- steelaz 15y agoThanks for the downvotes, but I'm serious. A link to "funny" image is at the very top, this is one small step from memes being posted on HN.
- Kudos 15y agoIt relates to a previous thread on HN discussing PHP being like a hammer with a claw on both sides. It's not some random image link.
- steelaz 15y agoShouldn't it then be a comment on that thread? I see plenty of comments in serious threads pointing out that topic was already discussed in referenced threads.
- skeptical 15y agoBecause every pseudo-hacker feels a desperate need to make i clear that (s)he is not associated with supposedly uncool languages. You might want to notice that the topic is more relevant for a story to get on top of HN than its actual content. Just saying.
- roel_v 15y agoI've been using PHP for well over 10 years, and I love this thing. It seems like most commenters take this as a snub to PHP, I don't see it that way at all. Note that the guy who made this is also a PHP dev and has been for a long time.
- nikhildaga 15y agohttp://news.php.net/php.internals/58385 http://news.php.net/php.internals/58385
- evoxed 15y agoI would prepare for some pictures of "duct tape and bailing wire... [that] we love it for...", if only I could imagine it could be done as creatively as the above hammer. But you know, the more I read these analogies the more I'm beginning to like PHP, not as something to work with but as that second cousin you met once at a family gathering and remember as being odd but nice and a funny guy.
- maratd 15y ago> I've been using PHP for well over 10 years, and I love this thing. You're not alone. There are many of us. PHP powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. You can whine all you want about this and that, but you can't argue with success. As far as hammers go, I had my wife make me a stuffed PHP elephant! It's on my desk right now.
- chrisbroadfoot 15y agoPeriod? C powers the Internet, period. Facebook, Wikipedia, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc. You can whine all you want about this and that, but you can't argue with success.
- skrebbel 15y agoYeah yeah smart kid. And x86 machine code, and transistors, and electrons. And sand, and don't forget about the high-tech machines that were used to make the chips.
- seanlinehan 15y agoThis. Is. Awesome.
- ianleckey 15y agohahaha, that is fantastic
- captn3m0 15y agoRasmus Lerdorf was at my college recently, and he too describes PHP in the very same terms. >GG: Your take in one line on PHP. >RL: In one line…it’s a web hammer - the one tool that you can use to solve any web problem you have. Full interview at http://gg.ieeeiitr.com/rasmus_interview.php http://gg.ieeeiitr.com/rasmus_interview.php The interview was for the college IEEE magazine.
- cheald 15y agoEasily the best part of this photoset is that it's hanging in a spot labelled "wrench". I have never seen PHP explained quite so succinctly.