KnightWhoSaysNi

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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
http://quickpay.net/
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
The White House, Yahoo, BBC, Sun, Nike, Novell, Adobe, Rackspace, Symantec, Warner Bros., Greenpeace, Harvard, Fedex, WordPress.com, Forbes, and a billion others. Check out http://egressive.com/article/who-uses-drupal and http://drupal.o
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
Only Google can hide the page behind a log-in and still expect us to come back (precisely because they're Google).
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
I agree with you that WordPress and Drupal aren't examples of great code. It has to do with the fact that CMSes take a long time to gain traction and acquire a true community, and WordPress and Drupal were started at a time when MVC was alm
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
"Years of torment"? Doesn't match my experience at all. Did you read MailChimp's blog post?
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
For PHP, it's 0 lines. Works right out of the box.
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
I like Node, but... really? You're saying that, for noobs, compiling programs on the command line is easier than copying a few Apache lines? Noobs can't do what you just outlined; they'll be puzzled the first time one of the commands fail (
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
Several PaaSes support PHP, too, so no major difference there. In a VPS environment, however, setting up PHP doesn't require anything - it works right out of the box - whereas Django and Flask require more packages to be installed /and/ req
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
To use WSGI (which is what most people would use instead of mod_python) you have to write some lines in your server configuration plus a script that loads your framework of choice. Compare that to getting CodeIgniter up and running: SFTP th
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
Regarding hosting I wasn't just talking about shared hosting. Setting up a LAMP VPS is just a couple of clicks. Compare that to setting up e.g. Django or Rails. I personally love Django, Flask, etc., but setting up a website is still faster
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
First of all, how it started isn't as important as where it is now. And what we have now is a full-fledged programming language. Secondly, if you can build large-scale maintainable websites with PHP, who cares how the language got started o
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
In the context discussed in this thread, "framework" means code that includes MVC, URL routing, and often an ORM. PHP in itself doesn't offer that; you need a framework such as CodeIgniter or Zend Framework on top. So no, PHP isn't a "frame
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
PHP has its faults, but it also has dead-easy deployment, cheap and reliable hosting, good documentation, and an excellent community.
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
"If you're moving away from the US you'll see a significant drop in salary though" Depends on whether you're moving from popular dev centers such as Silicon Valley or New York City, and of course it also depends on where you're moving to. M
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
I published something similar recently: http://hndigest.com
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
Like all features, "position: fixed" can be applied in useful ways and in not so useful ways. I agree that Der Standard's way of using it isn't too good, but overall fixed positions are an excellent feature if you ask me.
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
"The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have a fixed position" Strange that "position: fixed" hasn't fou
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
I just published something similar to your site and Hacker News Daily, but with more items per day and using email: http://hndigest.com
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
It's a fad, nothing more than that.
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by KnightWhoSaysNi 15y ago
Mirror? The site is down.