clienthunter

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by clienthunter 13y ago
Rice was an example that was palatable to both my lazy fingers and I hoped to those who may not have appreciated a jargon filled response. It does not detract from the clearly presented general case which you are more than encouraged to in
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Using the word "efficiency" anywhere close to the word "market" and not using an economic definition is bogus. You may as well make the rest up too. Those words have a very well defined and useful meaning (theoreticall
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by clienthunter 13y ago
From the article: > the privileged position held by money compared with capital goods, which is the underlying cause of the boom/bust business cycle This is far from accepted wisdom.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Interesting read. Did you write it?
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I knew I'd get called out on that no matter how I worded it. I have nothing against Bitcoin, but in regard to the points I made - yes, it's a toy currency: it's magnitude is nowhere near enough to be even close to relevant t
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by clienthunter 13y ago
If Bitcoin ever graduates to anything more than a toy currency (last count was a billion or two USD globally?) then it's going to have to deal with graduate level problems. The business cycle is a thing I'm afraid, and the manage
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I love Ruby so much that I shuddered a little when I saw the multi-line, multi-hash method call in the example code that made it look like js. Otherwise thumbs up.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Give me your twitter password and I'll lock you out, then write you an app that only lets you tweet after solving a soduku.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Am I only the only one who worries what the repercussions of an ad-blocking-by-default browser getting market share might be? "Facebook, sign up now for only $4 a month..." "You have 12 tweets left. Why not top up now?&qu
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by clienthunter 13y ago
True! How exactly does that improve the case for a moral crusade? I'm disabled in a way that if I told you, you'd probably consider me worthy of your pity. If I considered it relevant - no less fought for all my similarly defect
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by clienthunter 13y ago
This stuff infuriates me. > But then last year I spoke at a conference and I heard that the numbers of women in technology was in decline and I thought, 'That isn't right.' It is not right nor wrong! It just is . To mak
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by clienthunter 13y ago
That presentation was interesting, definitely some stuff I don't recognise.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I agree with you on the JS thing, and it's interesting to note from this thread that PHP may actually be on the up this time.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Ok I concede this might be less niche than I thought, it wasn't around when I last wrote PHP. Research error on my part. What else have I failed to realise? I'm entirely willing to believe that I'm wrong, I have a vested in
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I most certainly am not trolling. I want some insight into why people decide to sit down and write PHP libraries like this, that's it. I want to understand the thought process. So far I've got necessity, and maybe that's
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Don't make it personal - I'm trying not to insult PHP here, and certainly not you . I'm not on a high horse, I just don't get it! Fine, sometimes we have to work with things we don't like. I get that - am I going
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I never doubted it's ubiquity. If necessity and inertia are the answer to my query then I suppose I get that. I'd still be the guy in the room pushing for a piecemeal rewrite though.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Ok, I can believe that's true. I'm definitely talking pre-2010 here. But you speak of competing and avoiding pain - my point is why not just use something that was decent from the get-go? I still don't get it. Ruby&#x2F
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Webapps, unsurprisingly. Enough to know that I was using the wrong tool when I burst out of my little bubble and opened my eyes. I've since written/played in more languages and problem domains than I can be arsed to type, and no
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Personally? Because I'm not a sadist?
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by clienthunter 13y ago
A genuine question which looks like hate but isn't: why are people still innovating on PHP? I can understand why it may still be in use, but why nurture the ecosystem? The only people I know that care for PHP enough to be into this ki
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by clienthunter 13y ago
You started in Perl? That's hardcore. The PHP/MySQL was ok back then, but there's so many great alternatives with great exposure today. Aside from ease of deployment, I don't see what benefits there are now.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Looking back on my years of PHP pain, I feel it would be a commendable thing to end this article with just a small sentence on the importance of choosing the right tool for the job. 10 years ago I would have read this and gone off to learn
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Still, hardly my problem to figure that out and make allowances for it. It's his job to have it copyedited/run past someone in the company who is capable of empathy with customers.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I wouldn't call it interesting, the situation was massively predictable - I would call it profound incompetence.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
Perhaps 'rhetoric' is a better word. I'm a predictably pissed off customer, the last thing I need from OVH is a lesson in business strategy. All I want from them is a fair plan for what they plan to do for me now they&#x2
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by clienthunter 13y ago
What annoys me I suppose is that the issue was entirely predictable. I now know there are customers who got in before the shutdown who now have a server with double my spec at half the price. Of course current customers were going to move
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by clienthunter 13y ago
I'm an OVH customer, and I find this unbelievably bad practice. This rant is a piece of polemic that only serves to legitimise their screw up. Not selling cheap dedi's makes them entirely redundant.
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by clienthunter 13y ago
> With what? You're an economist, not an MMA fighter. A) you don't know that, B) everyone else would be an MMA fighter? > Right, so the nerds get together and beat down the MMA fighters and create laws against "murder&q
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by clienthunter 13y ago
At no point in this thread - or anywhere else for that matter - have I advocated anarchy, feudalism, feudal anarchism, or anything of the sort. Centralisation is inevitable to an extent. However to say that our options are binary - the st

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