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by acabal 16y ago
But it's not that hard to set up a bare-bones Apache serving PHP on localhost! It's literally as simple as the two commands I posted above on a modern Linux box, and as simple as downloading and running the Apache installer on a Windows
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by acabal 16y ago
Great idea. With all the Paypal horror stories out there I honestly hope you've set up the account so that it doesn't get wrongly frozen if the donations start ramping up.
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by acabal 16y ago
It's manpower spent on a feature that's more or less already solved with 'apt-get install apache2 php5 && a2enmod php' that could instead be put towards improving the language basics or building out the SPL or other libraries. And I
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by acabal 16y ago
You give up many of your civilian rights when joining the military and agree to be bound by the UCMJ, not civilian court. How can the UCMJ be biased against people the military doesn't like if it only applies to the military? I agree his d
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by acabal 16y ago
That's the point; the PHP doesn't compile without the namespace prefix. In fact I just tried it to make sure I'm remembering right.
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by acabal 16y ago
Off the top of my head, because when I want to reference My.Namespace.MyClass.Foo(), I have to do something like: use \My\Namespace; $var = new Namespace\MyClass(); $var->Foo(); I have to remember and type the parent namespac
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by acabal 16y ago
Oh god... as if configuring Apache for a non-trivial site wasn't complicated enough, now we'll have the full genius of those responsible for PHP's function naming conventions writing their own web server? Is this really necessary? Why n
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by acabal 16y ago
Some days after having my butt in a chair for a marathon coding session, I'm happy to find that I can still stand :)
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by acabal 16y ago
A small nitpick on the landing page: your testimonial should have the opening quotation mark as a “ and the closing quotation mark as an ”. Right now they're both ” and it looks a little strange.
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by acabal 16y ago
I agree, and I do the same. I'm not a professional designer (or a very good one at all), and CSS is great over Photoshop because I don't know--and don't have the time to learn--how to use Photoshop's vast library of features. It's easier
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by acabal 16y ago
I'd like to use this--I have a site I soft-launched recently that I'd like to rebrand--but without examples of names you've come up with in the past, it's a hard sell for me. I know I can get my money back, but I really would rather not do
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by acabal 16y ago
I tried to integrate my site, Scribophile, with FB a few years ago when the API was still relatively new. The idea was to give the user the option of adding a wall post to their profile when they posted writing to the site. The API had the
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by acabal 16y ago
One of my good friends is a mechanical engineer, young, single, and healthy, but with a thyroid problem. He requires pills every day for the rest of his life. He would not be able to afford those pills for long without insurance if he qui
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by acabal 16y ago
All good points, but the fact remains that at my income, it simply doesn't make financial sense for me to be insured. If I must declare bankruptcy in case of cataclysm, then the system just lost much more money than they would have were I
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by acabal 16y ago
This looks like a good resource--thanks for that. Right now my current location is Monterrey, Mexico, so again, doctor visits are cheaper to simply pay out of pocket. As an example, my uninsured girlfriend had to visit a doctor last week--
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by acabal 16y ago
I think it's hacker news because hackers struggling to become ramen-profitable (or even just thinking about it!) are directly affected by the cost and availability of health insurance. It's a big factor for many people in deciding whether
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by acabal 16y ago
This really highlights how utterly insane our system is. I'm living off of my own business, which means that I don't have an employer to cover me under group insurance. But I really only make enough to live frugally and save a tiny amount
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by acabal 16y ago
Can we please stop with these ridiculous "SQL is utterly hopeless" and SQL vs NoSQL articles? Saying that SQL is not scalable, full stop, is ignoring decades of real-world evidence. There's a right tool for every job, and SQL isn't always
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by acabal 16y ago
Twitter only? Not every good hacker wants a Twitter account...
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by acabal 16y ago
For my site, Scribophile, it was a classic chicken-and-egg problem. You post your writing for critique, but must earn points by critiquing the writing of others first. This is what I did when I launched: -Nobody will join a site if it loo
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by acabal 16y ago
Accepting a variable-rate mortgage is taking just a big a risk as the lender lending it to you. If you accept one of those, you should be financially prepared for the rate to rise, even dramatically. And if the rate rises beyond what you
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by acabal 16y ago
(b): because things like personal responsibility and basic, common-sense personal finance were long ago replaced in our national culture by blaming the other guy and a sense of entitlement. I'm actually on the side of putting more of the bl
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by acabal 16y ago
EDIT: Sorry, meant to reply to w1ntermute, not tibbon. The so-called "Constitution-Free Zone": the Constitution allows for warrantless searches at borders for the purposes of customs enforcement. But our government has conveniently decided
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by acabal 16y ago
Exactly... you, and every other serious developer. That IE is garbage is obvious to anybody who's done web development for more than a month. So why is Mozilla even bothering with these technical articles? IE lost to developers years ago
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by acabal 16y ago
I'm still not sure what the point of all this is. Any developer worth their salt already knows that IE9 is more or less a small step forward but still far short of what it needs to be and of what FF/Chrome have accomplished ages ago. Any
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by acabal 16y ago
While I've never read that book, the one bit of Buffett advice that always stuck with me was, "Invest in what you know." And I definitely know that Twitter ain't worth 10 billion dollars.
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by acabal 16y ago
From what I can tell, a 'location' is a block-level tag within the document html... <p>, <h2>, etc. Not that that's a helpful representation in any conceivable way for documents longer than a few paragraphs.
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by acabal 16y ago
I'm actually kind of excited for real page numbers, and not because I want to cross-reference with paper books. It's easier for me to remember something like "there was an interesting idea on page 165" instead of "there was an interesting
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by acabal 16y ago
Not always true--the Dell I bought just last month came with the OS and the bloatware on separate discs. I formatted the computer using the OS disc and it was a totally fresh version of Windows 7 with not a trace of bloatware in sight. Tho
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by acabal 16y ago
That's why my first order of business when opening a new computer is to flatten and reinstall. Usually manufacturers seem to include their bloatware on a separate recovery disc, leaving the OS disc fresh. I always offer to do this for my f

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