Firehed

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by Firehed 14y ago
Conceptually I agree, but having spent the last <way too long> being fed by ZeroCater, there's a lot of stuff that falls through the cracks when humans are involved - and when you are dealing with your customers every single day t
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by Firehed 14y ago
Why is it a crappy tool for non web stuff? It has an absurdly large set of included tools and having all of that in one place is really handy. More concretely- what's an easy non-web task that Ruby (as you suggest learning) is great at that
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by Firehed 14y ago
Ironically, I saw the 48FPS 3d and that made it far worse. Any scene with motion was literally unwatchable with both eyes open - and this was true for every one of my friends that went that night. We suspect it was something wrong with the
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by Firehed 14y ago
PHP's documentation is some of the best I've encountered (which is quite important, as you have to use it all the time even after ten years because of all the bizarre function names and signatures on the early "core" code). I completely agr
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by Firehed 14y ago
Sounds like a documentation problem, not one of the language. You can shoot yourself in the foot with any programming language. PHP just happens to have one of the shallowest learning curves and greatest availability, so simply by virtue of
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by Firehed 14y ago
Any email that violates the CAN-SPAM act - as LinkedIn's messaging does - I mark as spam. When I can unsubscribe from their emails with one click and no login-wall as they're legally required to allow, I will stop doing this. I'm sorry if
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by Firehed 14y ago
I get that this is, in fact, a real problem - but it's hardly one related to banking or finance. Sounds more like relationship trouble to me. I'd be more concerned about the bitcoin conversion services showing up in some sort of record than
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by Firehed 14y ago
My biggest concern is not now, but the future. With anything I "own", I should have a high degree of certainty that there's no dependency on any external service for it to remain useful - and I don't have this on DRMed content. If their au
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The Whoa Business Model(mrgan.tumblr.com)
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'm kind of joking about ugly (and completely serious about the names[1]), but using real photos in your mockup will give you a much better idea of how it will look in the real world. Sometimes the lack of consistent polish will make the wh
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by Firehed 14y ago
Not inherently; this is just another example of "correlation is not causation". There are plenty of ugly things/websites easy to use, and pretty things that are hard to use. There are also plenty of pretty things easy to use, and ugly thin
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by Firehed 14y ago
Saw this in the release notes when updating the FB Messenger app earlier today. While I haven't had a chance to play around with it yet, it sounds like yet another nail in the coffin for minutes-based cell phone plans (at least for smartpho
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by Firehed 14y ago
Visually pretty, but the grid is completely non-functional. I don't know where to start looking to get at the information I go to Facebook to find. The other pages look better, but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rathe
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by Firehed 14y ago
Nitpick: these are all trademark issues, not patent issues. Less of a nitpick: because these are trademark issues, the holders of the mark must attempt to defend them, or they are lost. While I happen to agree with the judge and feel that
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by Firehed 14y ago
The real trick comes not in preventing mistakes, but limiting the damage they can cause. I'd love everything I do to work perfectly the first time, but seeing that I'm human, that's just not going to happen. While I'm not in the medical ind
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by Firehed 14y ago
Humanity got by for quite a long time without flush toilets. That would be relatively low on my list of concerns.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yes, that does seem to be the trend. However, that's all it really is: a trend. Schemaless databases are good for certain tasks, but are also really terrible for other things. It seems that people interested in using new tech like to use as
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by Firehed 14y ago
As someone who's just recently started working on iOS, I agree. It's now relatively easy to get started with even if you don't have much background with stronger-typed, compiled languages, as there's no longer a need to deal with memory man
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by Firehed 14y ago
The bandwidth will cost less than twenty cents extra, probably far less (based on a rough estimate of S3 bandwidth costs, starting $0.12/GB down to $0.05 and under at scale). Because of peering agreements, it could actually be free. Yes, I
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by Firehed 14y ago
Never used a laptop? Hard drives seem to be pretty good at parking heads when a shock is detected these days.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Is there a real practical difference beween "strlen($str)" and "string::length($str)"? It may be a design decision that you disagree with, but it hardly gets in your way. It's certainly not "dropped" functionality. It also ends up being
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by Firehed 14y ago
Just added it, thanks!
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by Firehed 14y ago
Yes, but frameworks are supposed to solve issues like UTF8 encoding by setting up sane defaults automatically. If I wanted to deal with solved problems myself, I wouldn't be using a framework. Also, YC's crappy HTML doesn't make the site le
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by Firehed 14y ago
What provider doesn't violate that part of the spec? I see plenty of sites/services that uppercase my email address for whatever clever reason they feel is necessary; not violating that part of the spec and actually making the address cas
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by Firehed 14y ago
Also any Google Apps servers. Seems like a lot of extra work to look up a domain's MX records to figure out if it's safe to strip anything after + from their email address, which will only serve to annoy your users anyway.
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by Firehed 14y ago
The idea is that the longer you stay with the company, the larger percent of your remaining equity you get per period. Hockey-stick equity, if you will ;) I think it's actually a pretty reasonable approach. I've had people straight-up tell
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by Firehed 14y ago
It IS a PHP library - just one written in C rather than in user-land PHP code. Why is this a problem? The XML-RPC extension isn't even enabled by default.
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by Firehed 14y ago
It should be better documented to not directly print user input in HTML context, and there should be a very obvious best-practices[1] guide for newbies explaining what to do (and what not to do). But nl2br could only be dangerous is you mis
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by Firehed 14y ago
I've never once had the impression that nl2br did anything more than make whitespace significant in an HTML document. Even during my first days of using PHP... I don't think there's anything in the documentation or even trivially basic expe
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by Firehed 14y ago
That's exactly what I was pointing out, actually. Hence the poor implementation ;)

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