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by compay 18y ago
The only time I've ever felt like I really needed this so far was when dumping out a large hash to YAML to save as seed data. YAML at one point had support for ordering hashes but it went unmaintained for so long that although it was part o
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by compay 18y ago
I'm not sure the implication was necessarily that it was wrong, the poster (no pun intended) could have meant that it could simply have been better to use GET.
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by compay 18y ago
Lua doesn't even really have arrays per se, but rather "tables," which are a light, flexible data structure somewhat similar to Javascript's objects. You're free to index tables starting with 0 if you really want to, but the convention in L
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by compay 18y ago
This year my new year's resolution was to learn Lua. I think with some developer attention it has the potential to become a "better PHP" for web development because it beats PHP in performance, simplicty and elegance. Although I doubt it's
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by compay 18y ago
Joe Celko's "SQL For Smarties" and "SQL Puzzles and Answers" are classics in the field. They're still very relevant despite being 10+ years old, since SQL hasn't changed anywhere near as much as, say, Java in that time. http://www.celko.co
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by compay 18y ago
http://www.modpython.org/ http://www.modruby.net/ http://www.modrails.com/ Lua is easy to add "by default" because its interpreter is tiny and was designed for embedding. The others are too big.
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by compay 18y ago
Well, any language that becomes popular is going to have its share of crappy code being written. I'd much rather see newbie programmers get their start with a cleaner language like Lua than PHP, maybe it might help them learn better from th
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by compay 18y ago
This is very good news for Lua as a web development language. The avaialability of a high-quality deployment option for web applications will remove one of the primary obstacles to acceptance of Lua for web development. Lua’s small size cou
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Apache to include a mod_lua by default in next stable release(lua-users.org)
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by compay 18y ago
I've been looking into it for a couple weeks and am about to do some "hello world" apps this week. There's some interesting stuff in the Kepler project but the available libraries are definitely pretty low compared to a lot of other languag
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by compay 18y ago
I agree with the author that while PHP is aesthetically ugly, it works well in its niche and already has so much momentum there's basically no point to doing a rewrite. I also think a rewrite is poinless because in many ways Lua is already
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by compay 18y ago
Asking this here is fairly pointless. When you ask this sort of question people tend to just go on subjective rants in favor of what they like, and flame people who disagree with their tastes. The best thing you can do is put the time into
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by compay 18y ago
If HAML's not your thing then ok, to each his own. But the people here dismissing HAML out of hand because it's "easier" to just write the HTML by hand sound like people advocating typewriters over word processors. The whole reason to abstr
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by compay 18y ago
It's great to see the EY folks offering support for Passenger.
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by compay 18y ago
I don't think it was harsh, I think it's a good point. Like you said, you have to balance the convenience vs. the risk.
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by compay 18y ago
They have an API that lets you access all your data. You can back it up nightly as XML files and just port it into something else if you ever want or need to.
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by compay 18y ago
ICQ is still very widely used among people in the internet porn business.
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by compay 18y ago
Ooohhh... 7 digits: 6980539 I signed up in 1997 or 1998... haven't used it for anything in a LONG time.
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by compay 18y ago
Aquarium? http://www.unlikelymoose.com/more/macquarium/macquarium_gene...
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by compay 18y ago
I'm guessing (hoping) that that was tongue-in-cheek.
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by compay 18y ago
Export to quote-qualified CSV.
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by compay 18y ago
I'm calling bullsh^H^H on the one hour a day of work... Markus is the king of obfuscating his business practices with strategic misinformation.
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by compay 18y ago
Do something heartless, and then kill your heart.
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by compay 18y ago
Western culture owes more to the Muslim scholars of the middle ages than many realize. Aristotle, whose works had been lost in the west, was reintroduced by Arabic scholars translated to Latin from Arabic rather than Greek. This had a profo
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by compay 18y ago
For sure - with all those pesky users gone, their servers should have no more scaling problems.
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by compay 18y ago
If you want to go grab a beer and talk about the local scene, drop me a line. I'm an American web developer who's lived down here for about 6 years. My email is norman@randomba.org.
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by compay 18y ago
I've worked in the online dating industry for long time, and yes, POF is making lots of money, though I don't know exactly how much. Adsense is only one part of how they are monetizing their site. The idea that it's all click bots is just
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by compay 18y ago
I use Godaddy. There are usually lots of coupons for domain registration on retailmenot.com which makes them the cheapest option I'm aware of. I'm not 100% happy with them either - they are definitely clunky as all hell. Lately I've just be
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by compay 18y ago
Yeah, it's that bad.
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by compay 18y ago
Aaron Hillegass's "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X" is an extremely well written book that is great for learning Objective C through Cocoa and also does not assume you're retarded.

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