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by anthonyb 14y ago
It does help improve your interoperability with other developers and other code though. Python has had PEP-8 for quite a while now, and it definitely helps in improving both code quality and understanding random libraries that you find on t
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by anthonyb 14y ago
md5 is not going to protect you from much, especially if the md5 checksums are hosted on the same server. Also, pushing random code via apt-get is not going to win you any sysadmin friends. They like their servers to be stable, and their pa
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The repository doesn't have any access to the developer's private key. That's exactly the attack that they're designed to mitigate.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Well, that was the question originally raised, if you follow the thread. A synthetic brain would maintain your consciousness in exactly the same way that a synthetic heart would - by keeping you alive. Perhaps not a bit deal for you now, bu
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by anthonyb 14y ago
That's assuming that your brain uses quantum state to encode information, which is far from proven.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
You're missing the point - there's strong evidence that your brain is composed of multiple bits, all working in concert. If, in the future, you get a brain injury and are treated with a prosthetic thalamus implanted with micro-robots, are y
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Maybe. If you had bits of your brain replaced with identically functioning machinery, would you still be you? What if you had your whole brain replaced piecemeal like that? What about if you had a prosthetic thalamus or visual cortex?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Thanks - I think...
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by anthonyb 14y ago
1. Definitely not. If the story needs fit, wiggle, adjustment, then it's either not really done, or you raise the changes as another story for the next sprint. 2. Done is done - it's a binary yes/no thing. Done but not tested is not done. D
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Er, that's pretty much Scrum in a nutshell :)
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by anthonyb 14y ago
#1 - designer needs to put a box that does 'x' on your web app (login, show shiny stars, number of commits, whatever). He writes the HTML and calls on devs to help him implement whatever he needs to make that box happen. Devs implement a te
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> My current team is doing kanban. We have post-it notes that we move around. I have no idea what they represent. Since the whole point of Kanban, Scrum and similar systems is to manage your work, I'd say that's the place to start figur
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The thing that I really like about scrum is that reviewing your work habits is built into the process, where it's more resistant to management interference. Review is a major part of doing any sort of good work, but most people seem to over
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> Show me your data? Bitter personal experience? I'm a Python dev, but figured PHP and Python would be good to add to my resume. I picked them up pretty quickly, but after working for a couple of PHP places and interviewing at many othe
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The best bit about those environments is that the devs who crank out the most code (ie. LOC-wise) are feted, but they're basically just standing in the bottom of a hole, digging.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
That's what I was wondering. I also had a look through the Symfony2 docs. Perhaps it's just me being a Python bigot, but the code there doesn't look any better than the raw PHP: http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/from_flat_php_to_symfony.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Yeah - "shit" being the operative word there. The problem I've found is that there's a kind of anti Python paradox at work with PHP: Better than 95% of the PHP jobs out there are horrible scut work for companies that don't give a shit about
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Web development is somewhat different these days. OldIE support is being gradually dropped, primarily due to schedule and/or financial pressure or just web developers being more transparent about costs (eg. "IE6-7 support and testing will b
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> If you could deploy (say) python-decorated web pages via apache This is a terrible, terrible idea. There are a few Python frameworks which have tried similar things, but Model-View-Controller was invented for a reason.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Why not learn both? Pick a small(ish) project and go at it in both frameworks. You've said that you have friends who know both, and you've already got a handle on web dev through PHP, so maybe Rails one weekend, and Django the next. Now you
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by anthonyb 14y ago
The point is that it's still shared state, so it's possible in practice to take down your server if you manage to corrupt your database or a file on your filesystem. About the only thing you're protected against is memory leaks, and that se
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by anthonyb 14y ago
HTML. Or some sort of managed CMS. Something that doesn't involve any programming. Because getting all of the bits of web development together is hard work, and you're not likely to end up with anything decent at the end if you don't know w
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> Who's Rasmussen? Brainfart. I meant Rasmus. A programming language is a tool to get the machine to do what you want. A good tool will help you get the job done faster, and with fewer problems (like, say, security holes). It's not
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Well, except that PHP has access to the database, sessions, cookies and the filesystem. There's a whole bunch of state right there.
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And when more places start doing this, or quietly dropping support for IE6, 7 and 8? People are going to start clamoring to be able to install a decent browser.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Oh great. Another PHP article, where we get to watch all of the defenders of Rasmussen's misbegotten spawn come out from under their rocks... "PHP works great for me! It runs tons of websites! I don't know what you're complaining about.
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Not for long: http://www.kogan.com/au/blog/new-internet-explorer-7-tax/
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by anthonyb 14y ago
I fail to see your reasoning. IE6 was (I believe) the default in Windows XP, which people are still using. Should we demand that JQuery support every default browser on every default OS until they're all end-of-lifed?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
Except for Chrome, Opera and Firefox, you mean?
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by anthonyb 14y ago
> IE7 is a bit too soon, but IE8?... It was released in 2009! That's old! When JQuery 1.9 is released in 2013 it'll be four years old. Windows XP is eleven years old and will be end of lifed in early 2014. At what point will you pull th

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