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by brendn 15y ago
I like your city analogy. I won't stoop to comparing programming languages to actual American cities, but I would counter that "PHP is like living in [a particular] big city." Here's where I disagree: it's not enough to say "hold your nose
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by brendn 15y ago
The arguments in favor of PHP that I continue to hear run along the lines of "everybody's using it" or "it's not that bad if you know what you're doing" or "it's great because it's the Swiss Army knife of languages." It's hard to argue with
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by brendn 15y ago
This. +1000 if I could.
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by brendn 15y ago
There are those of us who have been forced to use PHP, and quite honestly, we could use a few good round-up posts of why there are better choices for a project these days than PHP. Sometimes we can't forget that it exists, so we try to ed
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by brendn 15y ago
That may insulate factories from fluctuating inventory supply, but it doesn't solve the problem of fast turnaround when changes are needed. If a part needs to be redesigned, the supplier may still have a weeks-long lead time to get the new
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by brendn 15y ago
Acrobat allows you to embed a subset of the font in the PDF. For a large enough document, most of the glyphs end up embedded anyway, but at least there's no packaged font file that can be installed from the PDF.
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by brendn 15y ago
That's fine when you make a comparison against a constant, but what if you're comparing two variables?
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by brendn 15y ago
Part of this has to do with the complexity of storing cookies in WebKit. The SDK wants to redirect to the FB app if it's installed since that is pretty much guaranteed to have the user's credentials. Safari is next most likely, since it wil
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by brendn 15y ago
Can someone change this to link to the actual IBM blog entry [1] instead of the CNET fluff piece? [1] http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/12/the-next-5-in-5-our-f...
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by brendn 15y ago
Why does "more governance" necessarily mean deportation? I fail to see the connection. Can't "more governance" mean better bureaucracy for documenting immigrants?
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by brendn 15y ago
While you're clearly implying that this is an indicator of a second tech bubble, you're using faulty logic to arrive at that conclusion. Computers were also popular during the dot-com boom. So was the Internet. That doesn't mean that a focu
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by brendn 15y ago
A web form to submit a MAC address would make more sense, but if this were a serious problem the solution would be to go to the manufacturers. A standard for broadcasting an "opt-in" bit configurable in the router's admin interface might be
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by brendn 15y ago
I'm a New Yorker and I know what you mean by "B of A," as do many of the people I know. I think we're both dealing with small anecdotal data sets here, though.
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Petition the Obama Administration to Abolish Daylight Saving Time(wwws.whitehouse.gov)
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by brendn 15y ago
This is getting off-topic, but did you forget about AT&T's secret rooms that were recording internet traffic? It's not just Google that wants to read your mail. Governments want to spy on their citizens, and ISPs are (allegedly) coopera
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by brendn 15y ago
I don't know if you're disappointed that some comments were stating the obvious (the code stinks) or that all the more experienced coders joined in on the pile-on. I agree that it would be nice if the OP took the time to deconstruct the exa
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by brendn 15y ago
You might want to check out Logstash ( http://logstash.net/ ). It's an open source log aggregator, parser, and search tool. I haven't implemented it myself yet, but it was one of my favorite software introductions at OSCON this past summer.
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by brendn 15y ago
Or this section of Queens where there's a 23rd Street, 23rd Avenue, 23rd Road, 23rd Terrace and 23rd Drive in close proximity: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=23rd+Street,+Queens,+New+York,...
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by brendn 15y ago
Thank you for expanding on my admittedly rushed comment. I agree that comparing health data in the US to that of developing countries is problematic. But it raises interesting questions. One question, that I don't think has been answered su
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by brendn 15y ago
Then why does the USA have the highest rate of circumcision and also the highest rate of HIV infection of developed countries? I don't think the claim holds up under scrutiny here. [EDIT: wording]
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by brendn 15y ago
I live on Wall Street, as do many other hard-working New Yorkers. The Financial District isn't just fat-cat bankers and hedge fund managers these days. I don't expect that interfering with people's routines is an effective way to win thei
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by brendn 15y ago
"Dulwich is the place where Mr. and Mrs. Git live in one of the Monty Python sketches." ( http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dulwich )