JonoBB

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   by JonoBB 12y ago

   US date format deserves a special place in hell under any circumstances.
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   by JonoBB 12y ago

   If you are still considering PHP frameworks, then your choices are really Symfony or Laravel (maybe Zend at a stretch). Yes, Laravel does have a high "bus factor", but for me personally its the number one choice in terms of ecosys
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   by JonoBB 12y ago

   Given that the Laravel tests completed fine in all previous benchmarks, I'm guessing that there is something else amiss here.
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   by JonoBB 12y ago

   I'm all for fighting back, and this is what I will teach my kids as they get older. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isfn4OxCPQs
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   by JonoBB 12y ago

   Yes, this. Why is this all-or-nothing approach romanticised? There are untold thousands of bootstrapped companies slowly building their product without taking on any (or very little) outside funding and earning a decent living. It may not h
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   by JonoBB 13y ago

   There is a massive gulf between "winning the lottery ticket" and failing. There are many many many startups (or whatever term you want to give them) that create a good living for the founder, and perhaps a few employees as well. N
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   by JonoBB 13y ago

   I don't work on windows anymore, but Git Extensions is still my favourite Git Gui https://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
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   by JonoBB 13y ago

   Here we go: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19524962
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   by JonoBB 13y ago

   Anyone who doesn't have much faith in php probably hasn't been paying attention to the changes in recent times.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    No need to imagine. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/01/06/kalzumeus-software-year-...
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Sorry, but this is mostly wrong. PHP has two awesome frameworks - Symfony and Laravel. They both have their pro's and con's, but both are very mature frameworks that can both match Rails or Django in their own rights. Both of full
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    "Only a quarter" is still $6bn per quarter (give or take). (Note, I haven't checked the 25% part, but their last quarter's revenue was ~$24bn).
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Git Extensions is by far the best windows git client that I ever used.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Perhaps you missed the link that says "Learn more"?
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    I should have mentioned this in the original question. I always work on a milestone basis. In addition to the initial contract, every piece of work is done something along these lines (obviously abbreviated): Here's the work that I w
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Do not, under any circumstances, use CodeIgniter. It will teach you all sorts of rubbish, and the framework is dieing (or dead). Laravel is light years ahead.
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    Ask HN: Should I validate a client's idea?

    41 points by JonoBB 13y ago|40 comments
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Yes, I have to agree that the pricing is very misleading. How many startups have 8 servers? I would have though that 2-4 is more like the norm, in which case the price is more like $50 - $100 per server
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    New Relic Pricing for Startups(blog.newrelic.com)

    5 points by JonoBB 13y ago|4 comments
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    I really really dislike their pricing scheme. We have 5000 subscribers, but only send 1 email every month or two. This costs $55. Compare this to someone that has 500 subscribers, and sends each of them 10 emails per month - that only costs
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Based on experience its by far the most cost effective method in a competitive market.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Yeah, this is all good and everything. But to get to the top in a competitive market, there is usually very little option but to buy high quality links.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    London is expensive, and West Hampstead is one of the more expensive areas in Zone 2. However, there is much better value to be if you move out a bit. I rent a 3 bed double story semi-detached house in zone 5 NW London in an awesome residen
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    This is the reason that I cannot use phpstorm on linux. I was a long term phpstorm user on windows, but when I swapped to linux I just couldn't stand those fonts. I now dread opening up phpstorm.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    FIG ( http://www.php-fig.org/ ), of which Zend is a member, has been around for 2-3 years, but only really gained traction in the last 18 months or so. No one cares about Zend coding standards anymore.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    I can't help but get the impression that the author has not kept up with recent developments in the PHP world. Python has PEP-8. PHP has FIG. Not as ubiquitous, but its getting there. "There is package management in PHP but I neve
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Somehow, I ended up with 2 steam accounts, and wanted to merge them. This is expressly prevented by Steam (( https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1558-QYA... ). Now, with these changes, I at least have a way ar
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    I think you answered your own question there.
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    Having tested and used most of these solutions in the UK, Stripe wins hands in almost all scenarios for bootstrapped companies. Its just so easy to get up and running, and their support is top-notch. There is one big downside though - you c
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    by JonoBB 13y ago

    I founded http://www.accountportal.com about 4 years back. We had our first paying subscribers within the first month, but growth over the first 12 months was very slow. Things continued to grow at an moderately increasing rate