Maascamp

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   by Maascamp 17y ago

   I rarely read such grossly misinformed posts on HN. A shame you spent so long on it.
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   This is a very poor idea. Unless you want to keep the community frozen as is, you can't NOT show visitors the real site. If that were the case I'd probably stop coming myself.
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   Way to summarize their only complaint.
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   So all the torture, repression, and extreme poverty during the Pinochet era was worth is huh? And there HAS been socialist change since Pinochet. I can't believe you'd hold Chili under Pinochet up as an example of what to do. Good lord.
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   Research and less bandwagon reporting.
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   This is a straw man argument. Saying "now everything is a Ponzi scheme" doesn't address his point that we're going to have to start looking at how a global steady state economy will work. He isn't saying Capitalism isn't the best system, he
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   Well said. The latest version of PHP is going to have lambdas, and I'm quite certain that it's not a Lisp.
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   by Maascamp 18y ago

   Interestingly the higher taxes will in part be used to raise the standard of education which will result in a more dynamic and entrepreneurial work force, which will in turn result in more business owners looking for employees. He simply so
9. 189.▲
   by Maascamp 18y ago

   I'm Canadian living in Vancouver and certainly do NOT get taxed 50%. In fact, my income tax (percentage) now is less than it was a year and a half ago when I lived and worked in New York city.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    What if I'm an anything else coder and I want to support Mac? Forget license, I need to buy a new machine. Linux is the only really painless platform to support if you're not using it.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    How about the fact that all American plans come with free national long distance. That's unheard of in Canada. You get billed long distance for calling a city an hour away.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    I generally agree with the article, though I find it a little disingenuous coming from Gizmodo. I mean, these are the guys that are feeding the fire and lambasting companies for holding products back to fix buggy software/hardware. It's par
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    I think you mean if(strpos(strtolower($title.$body), 'lisp') !== false) ++$votes; Oh wait, this is Hacker news. Apologies.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    You know what, sometimes you ARE a subordinate. So suck it up.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    My preferred DBMS is Postgres, but I have to use MySQL at work. I can honestly say that moving to MySQL after Postgres is a serious downer. What happens when you want referential integrity alongside fulltext indexes? An ugly database.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Not to mention that if you're on windows you can just download the Wamp stack executable and you're done. One click.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    How many people in this world can afford a computer to learn to type on? Along that vein, how many schools in the US can afford to equip each student with a full time computer (since they won't be able to write notes down)? Get grounded in
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Browse through the Zend Framework. I don't know why more people don't recommend it as a well written large size PHP code base. It's a little exception happy but that's more of a style issue.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Since he did so much schooling himself (the only reason he could even write this article and do the necessary research to be taken seriously is because of school) it's hard to take him seriously
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Completing and deleting tasks seems to be broken.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Interestingly enough the language everyone loves to hate, PHP, as of 5.3 has figured this out as well.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    This is not a story about a computer scientist. It's a story about an enterprise IT consultant.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    tsearch is not complicated for anyone who knows enough about a database to install tsearch. It has pretty straight forward documentation and I was able to get my install up and running with differently weighted columns (and stemming) in the
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Why the hell is this linked?
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    ADODB. I've used PDO as well (which is slightly faster), but I found ADO to be a little more robust. Also supports memchached out of the box.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    This is a childish rant. I'm surprised it was posted and actually voted up on HN. Maybe things are starting to slide around here.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Why would you post this on hacker news?
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    I'm really loving the Daniel Craig interpretation of Bond.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    Hackers are generally smart people. Smart people know to learn a bit about the company they're applying to BEFORE they apply.
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    by Maascamp 18y ago

    I'm not generaly a client side coder, but stuff like this is the reason I like javascript. Rapid development of fun ideas. Nice work!