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by aGHz 14y ago
Sorry, nothing off the top of my head, but a good starting point would be googling for stuff like "node event driven" or maybe "event driven programming" in general.
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by aGHz 14y ago
> This is because node is nonblocking. It doesn't wait for get_username() to return before continuing. You misunderstand how non-blocking works. In this case, it -most definitely- waits for get_username() to return before continuing. If
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by aGHz 14y ago
What you're showing here is a very typical fundamental misunderstanding of what statistics is. It's not that they can "state anything", it's that everything they state comes with a confidence interval, so they are -probabilistically- very r
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by aGHz 14y ago
You just described Trello
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by aGHz 14y ago
You can easily compare this to literacy, the ability to control written communication. I'm sure around 1800 many people didn't understand the point, since you could always just walk up to almost everyone you'd want to communicate with. Ther
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by aGHz 14y ago
The OP missed the point: it's a passive aggressive way to get you off the site and hope you never come back. We're already focusing all our energy on convincing normal people why our app is awesome, convincing you why you should also enable
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by aGHz 14y ago
While this comment is beside the point, I'm still curious why this version works the way it does. I may be missing something obvious, but why does JS think those two integers are the same?
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by aGHz 14y ago
> I haven't worked on any teams. I've always written software solo. What of it? Well, that means you have zero experience with the majority of concerns expressed in this thread, and so are not qualified to opine on them. You work in a h
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by aGHz 14y ago
Ok, let me fix that: "The article tries to be a comprehensive list of problems with PHP and @ is an error suppression tool that is notorious for being misused throughout the community". > I refactor all external PHP code before I place
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by aGHz 14y ago
The article tries to be a comprehensive list of problems with PHP and @ is a notorious one, even if you personally are disciplined enough to avoid it. Not to mention that I have no idea why the original commenter picked on this. It was list
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by aGHz 14y ago
What exactly is wrong with giving people ample information to base their decisions on? As long as PHP will have all these warts, people will condemn it, Get over that.
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by aGHz 14y ago
Because it's bad for the industry as a whole. Clueless managers are looking exclusively for PHP developers because all they know is that there are a ton of them around. Meanwhile, people who've mastered more powerful tools and can produce m
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by aGHz 15y ago
To clarify, I'm not saying over-engineering is a good thing. I'm saying there's a mismatch between the complexity of the problem and the desires/personality of the person having to solve it. Give the simple problem to people who valor elega
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by aGHz 15y ago
I don't understand why you presume it's a need to defend and justify it to others. Getting a PhD from MIT isn't exactly a walk in the park, I imagine the person got it BECAUSE of a pleasure to tackle complicated problems in the first place.
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by aGHz 15y ago
This. While reading the article, I couldn't help but imagine the legions of extremely bright Russian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Hungarian, etc hackers, most likely orders of magnitude more sophisticated than Sabu, looking at the LulzSec shenanig
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by aGHz 15y ago
I imagine the implied turn of phrase was actually "struggled to make the numbers". As TheCapn pointed out, an unaccounted for 20% drop in plans is bound to shake things up a little.
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by aGHz 15y ago
If you want Python, just use Python ("There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." - PEP 20). Very central to the Perl philosophy is that TIMTOWTDI (though I'm not sure if this is canonized anywhere as clearly as f
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by aGHz 15y ago
This is a terribly incorrect trivialization of the work they did. The idea is not to observe some meaningless pattern emerge. Instead, they're trying to describe the statistics of random 3x3 pixels taken from photographs of nature (in fact,
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by aGHz 15y ago
Absolutely loved that miniseries and recommended it to everyone I know. The second episode also deals with a high-tech future, while the first one explores a more social angle of our current connected world.
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by aGHz 15y ago
You're showing a disproportionate emotional response to a point he didn't even make. The idea is that as parents, we send subtle signals to our young children about how adult life should be. A father spending 6h a day at work and the rest w
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by aGHz 15y ago
"It's a juvenile playground pissing contest that has nothing to do with craftsmanship." Sadly, you've got me there. There's rich conversation to be had on the topic though, could we come up with ways to make that surface out of the current
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by aGHz 15y ago
Except you called it "bullshit stacked on bullshit". Debates over languages go much deeper than "5% efficiencies", and what I was trying to get at is that depth is beyond an entrepreneur. Not because of an implied hierarchy, but because you
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by aGHz 15y ago
It's true that the ultimate judgement comes on the result, but a lot of the arguments around tools have an element of "this allows you to give better results". I've witnessed very long discussions with my photography and cinema friends abou
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by aGHz 15y ago
What a pleasant attitude painfully indicative of a certain kind of entrepreneur that can only see green in the world. You see, what you call a "certain type of nerd" are actually craftsmen who enjoy things done well. You can be all the IKEA
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by aGHz 15y ago
"The only difference is that today it's organized, tested and validated." Unbelievable. Those are the three reasons developing in PHP was such a pain back in 2000: procedural web code was a pain to keep organized, don't even get me started
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by aGHz 15y ago
The biggest one is encoding state exclusively in the hypertext communication (what many people would call statelessness). Most web devs aren't comfortable doing away with sessions, but that's just fine as far as HTTP cares.
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by aGHz 15y ago
Actually you're quite right, yeah. My feeling though is that in cases like this it doesn't really matter what the PUT really does behind the scene. For your API consumer it just changes the user's picture (in some cases from None to one). S
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by aGHz 15y ago
Are you just HTTP-compliant (using the proper verbs and having Uniform Resource Locations point to actual resources) or are you truly 100% restful?
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by aGHz 15y ago
Aside from my HTTP/REST rant, I think there's a much better discerning factor between POST and PUT. From the HTTP spec: "The fundamental difference between the POST and PUT requests is reflected in the different meaning of the Request-URI.
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by aGHz 15y ago
The issue this piece exposes is much wider than REST and completely independent of the validity/desirability of REST. The semantics of PUT and POST are defined in the HTTP spec, a much lower level than the architectural one at which REST ex

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