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721.
by acabal 15y ago
Seriously. And I expected better than a "think of the children" stance from the interviewer.
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by acabal 15y ago
But I think it's exactly these "wishlist features" that make frameworks/packages a necessity in the first place. If PHP had these functions well-implemented and -documented in the core, it wouldn't be necessary to have 10 different flavors
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by acabal 15y ago
ZF is yet another framework, and a fairly complex-to-setup one as well. Problem is that when a newbie searches for "how to query mysql in php", they get 100 different tutorials doing it 100 different ways using the core functions. You won'
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by acabal 15y ago
Packages and frameworks are great, but they exist because they solve problems that core PHP doesn't solve well. That's why there are so many different ORM layers and databases classes and templating frameworks. For example PHP gives you t
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by acabal 15y ago
I'd imagine because at the moment there isn't a tablet market, there's an iPad market. Windows 8 isn't even out yet.
726.
by acabal 15y ago
Sounds like echoes of the Gnome Shell critisicm... trying to be both tablet and desktop at once leads to neither side being very good.
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by acabal 15y ago
There's still the risk of the government getting their hands on the actual servers and getting the data from there. They managed to do it to Mega Upload, and they were based in HK/NZ. (Though obviously the cases are very different.) Whil
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by acabal 15y ago
I actually think he's right in dismissing those studies as ludicrous. You can't honestly take one or two (that I can recall) "studies" with only a dozen participants and then brand your product as "usability tested." That's just paying li
729.
by acabal 15y ago
My university's CS curriculum didn't teach us to use any technologies at all, besides extremely basic Unix and C++. If you wanted to build anything outside of GCC then it was up to you. And you still had to figure out how to set up makefi
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by acabal 15y ago
Also, please don't make Twitter your only sign-in option. I've come across lots of programmer-oriented startups that I'd like to sign up for, only to find that I require a Twitter account. Well guess what guys, not every competent program
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by acabal 15y ago
If I had to take a guess, it would be that it probably has something to do with the wild constellation of libraries any given Linux machine could be using, not to mention version of those libraries. Do you build your game to support ALSA,
732.
by acabal 15y ago
This is such a great idea. I'm using Git for my own repositories and I find myself doing searches for things like "how to undo a stage" or "how to revert a file" so often that it almost takes as much time to use Git as it does to do my pro
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by acabal 15y ago
SublimeText is great, but after using it for a few weeks I went back to Komodo Edit. The reason is because I do a lot of PHP work, and Komodo Edit by far has the best PHP autocomplete I've found. There's a plugin for SublimeText that suppo
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by acabal 15y ago
That's exactly what I was trying to install. I just couldn't get it to work. No doubt some simple step I had overlooked, but not being able to install the installer was extremely frustrating.
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by acabal 15y ago
I wanted to try Arch to see what the fuss was about after I got badly burned by the Ubuntu 11.10 upgrade. I'm not a Linux newbie by any stretch and I managed to get it set up in a virtual machine, but when it came time to install the commu
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by acabal 15y ago
One guy made an easy to use computer, some cool movies, and then some expensive first-world gadgets while hanging on to his massive fortune and reputation as a jerk. The other made "PC" a household word, now runs the largest charity in his
737.
by acabal 15y ago
I don't think people here are giving Canonical a hard time because they're trying to innovate. I think it's because while Canonical is innovating, they're shoving alpha-quality innovations down the throats of their users. They're making t
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by acabal 15y ago
Sorry but this is just more Facebook-style slacktivism, but worse because it's not even easily discoverable by mere mortals.
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by acabal 15y ago
Shockingly, no. A few months ago I started registering new domains with them, and was very surprised that you had to buy credits for your account instead of having an auto-renew. I went with name.com instead when moving from Godaddy today.
740.
by acabal 15y ago
Too little, too late. I'm still moving my ~20 domains away. Their initial stance, plus their ridiculous initial response ("We heard some people were mad, but we're not changing our tune until we start losing money") indicates that they don
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by acabal 15y ago
This is what I've been wondering aloud for a long time. Politics is bought and paid for. It's not the ideal situation, but it's the reality. Given that, why isn't Silicon Valley spending more money lobbying for Internet-positive legislat
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by acabal 15y ago
Essentially the entire "damn the torpedos, we're right and there's no going back now" approach Gnome seems to be taking. I've seen lots of people submit valid and thoughtful criticisms of Gnome Shell, and the only response Gnome seems inte
743.
by acabal 15y ago
I'm judging it as it stands now, not as some document somewhere says it might be one day, maybe, if the developers get around to it. If they don't want people judging it, they shouldn't have released it until they felt it was ready to be j
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by acabal 15y ago
The point is that those corners are some of the most important screen real estate, taken advantage by other DEs. Take Windows, for example. Upper-right=close, upper-left=context menu, bottom-left=start menu, bottom-right=show desktop. Com
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by acabal 15y ago
I'd definitely disagree with that. While I'm sure there are some people who do like it, I think Gnome Shell is objectively flawed usability-wise. Just to list a couple obvious examples: -The top bar is almost entirely wasted space; -Havin
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by acabal 15y ago
But that's what (correct me if I'm wrong) nullification is for: to allow the jury as a unit an independent mind, and to not force them to enforce laws they believe to be unjust. Their job is definitely not to write laws, but the founding f
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by acabal 15y ago
I just don't understand how with this bill being so clearly bought by the rich media companies, why there isn't a counter from the rich internet companies. I mean if the RIAA can give $1 million to Senator X, then why can't Google give $2
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by acabal 15y ago
I've actually had similar thoughts about Lego in the past. When I was younger I used to love playing with the generic "space" Legos or the generic "castle" legos. Looking back, it was great because those sets where generic enough that you
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by acabal 15y ago
That's precisely why while everyone is predicting the death of traditional publishing houses, I predict that they'll continue to flourish (though in a slightly transformed state) even with ebooks supposedly leveling the playing field. In a
750.
by acabal 15y ago
Exactly right. As an aside, I think the key is to make sure the bully is actually right about what they're bullying. For example both Gnome (via Gnome Shell) and Ubuntu (via Unity) have already realized that they need to be bullies to se

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