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emperorcezar
14y ago
PHP is big because 10 years ago, it was the best choice. Back then, the non-microsoft options were Perl, ColdFusion, Java, and PHP. PHP was the best for web development out of that. This isn't the case anymore. PHP has been far surpassed by
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emperorcezar
14y ago
I attempted to use it in Chrome and Firefox on Lion. When I go to clone to edit a github repository, it just sits at this http://i.imgur.com/cLcum.png
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emperorcezar
14y ago
The issue with Ellington has always been it's closed source nature. You make a lot of money from people who install, setup, and use your CMS/app/whatever who need a support contract later on. If you have to pay up front, you're much more li
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emperorcezar
14y ago
All this hardware is strikingly similar to Apple's.
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emperorcezar
14y ago
Your problem is that the company can get a reputation as a revolving door. Which over time means any good programmer in the know is not even going to apply. Why take the risk? There's no guarantee to me as a candidate that your company is f
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emperorcezar
14y ago
I do web development, so arbitrary algorithms questions seem to me to be not applicable to what I do 99% of the time. The other 1% I can easily look up the answer, or at least look up the details I need to find the answer.
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emperorcezar
14y ago
I find the memory amounts way to fine grained. It encourages me to have as little buffer as possible. Why pay for 128megs when I can pay for 96?
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emperorcezar
14y ago
I've seen it about a dozen times in a dozen different forms in as many years.
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15y ago
Chicago mostly lost population in black neighborhoods. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/16/us/16illinois.html
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15y ago
Yes, it just works. That's also where there are thousands of poorly written sites out there that chug down sql injections like they were going out of style. PHP is a reasonable templating language. That's what it should be used for. If you