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by georgefox 15y ago
Good to know, thanks! I feel like from a UX perspective, it'd be ideal to be able to give some friendly error message to at least acknowledge that the failure is on the server end. A page that says, "Sorry, we're having trouble accessing yo
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by georgefox 15y ago
I'm curious about this as well. While it's all very neat and improves the user experience when everything is working, what happens if things break? If you can't connect to S3 or something, but you've already sent HTTP headers for the ZIP do
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by georgefox 15y ago
> Do the people you know have experience with other comparable languages, and still think PHP is a well-designed language and platform? Is this the only thing upon which to base your opinion of a language? As someone who's seen at lea
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by georgefox 15y ago
It looks like this petition expired at the end of February after not receiving enough signatures. > The petition you are trying to access has expired, because it failed to meet the signature threshold. https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/pet
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by georgefox 15y ago
I feel like this is more of a role for a framework built on top of PHP than for a language like PHP itself. PHP itself is pretty low-level. How would you suggest providing better protection against these? In the past, of course, PHP did hav
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by georgefox 15y ago
I don't know if this counts as meeting, but I consider myself a developer that is interested in programming, doing things right, etc., and I like PHP. I see PHP as a language comparable to English. Both languages have a bunch of inconsisten
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by georgefox 15y ago
You're correct. Type hinting was introduced with PHP 5, which makes it about eight years old. http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.typehinting.php
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by georgefox 15y ago
As I understand, the free Precheck program is invite-only for frequent fliers, but you can sneak into Precheck if you're a Global Entry program member, which you can apply for online for $100. > To qualify, frequent fliers must meet un
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by georgefox 15y ago
What's really annoying about the IsNot operator is that it's not consistent with TypeOf ... Is. In other words, you can't do this: If TypeOf obj IsNot MyClass Then ' ... Instead you have to do: If Not TypeOf obj Is My
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by georgefox 15y ago
Given that Visual Studio underlines all your compilation errors and lists them in the Error List as you write your code, I don't see how this would work.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Whoa, there's audio! Firefox doesn't play the MP3s, unfortunately.
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by georgefox 15y ago
Agreed, that's a huge part of health insurance, and that's why I would never consider dropping coverage. But in practice, wouldn't health insurance almost have to subsidize the expenses of high-cost folks at the expense of low-cost folks? A
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by georgefox 15y ago
> But if you take away 50% from everybody, the assumption has to be that everybody wants to buy all the same things in the exact same amount and quality. Not really. It's a matter of risk pooling and public good. In health insurance,
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by georgefox 15y ago
Do you have any numbers that actually suggest poor parents are profiting off of such programs? Children are, strictly financially speaking, a huge expense.
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by georgefox 15y ago
If someone cannot afford to feed his or her child and the child starves--literally or metaphorically--who's bearing the responsibility? Edit: To be clear, I agree that you shouldn't have a child you can't afford, but mistakes happen, situ
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by georgefox 15y ago
I can't tell whether or not you're serious. What if the woman was not poor or not unwed at the time of conception? What if her husband lost his job? Do you think having children should be a privilege limited only to married couples with at
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by georgefox 15y ago
Agreed. While some of the opinions are valid and useful, the idea of intentionally setting up weak authentication for an online bank account seems absurd. (Did he really suggest accepting an e-mail address in lieu of a password?) Banks ofte
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by georgefox 15y ago
Personally, I had to disable AdBlock Plus and Ghostery to get it to work (plus a bunch of NoScript stuff, but that goes without saying). There's an astonishing amount of crap loaded on the page when you do all this, including the anti-SOPA
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by georgefox 15y ago
> Personally I renamed Notepad2.exe to "n.exe" which saves me a few dozen "otepad"s a day. Wow, such an idea has never occurred to me. A simple n.cmd in C:\Windows\system32 like so will save me a lot of typos: @echo off st
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by georgefox 15y ago
No polar graphing either: https://www.google.com/search?q=r+%3D+sin%282%CE%B8%29
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by georgefox 15y ago
Really interesting concept. This one wasn't as accurate for me as the original Firefox-specifc proof of concept, though. It only picked up on YouTube and Wikipedia. What's with the "whoops" on Google? I do use NoScript and Ghostery, though,
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by georgefox 15y ago
On the topic of .NET's abysmal failure, it always killed me that ASP.NET's (Web Forms', at least) default custom 404 behavior was to return a 302 Found status code then redirect to a 404 Not Found page. For example: http://www.microsoft.co
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Node.js 0.6.3 to include NPM in .msi Installer, OS X .pkg(github.com)
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by georgefox 15y ago
> If you write in PHP, you can develop applications that integrate with the GOP.com platform.
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by georgefox 15y ago
It's not just you. I've spent a lot more time than I care to admit looking at the street view in Norway, especially around the fjords and way up north.
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by georgefox 15y ago
I can't open this website at all in Internet Explorer. Not that I'd want to, of course, but why is that?
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by georgefox 15y ago
wordlist = response.split(/\s+/) Thank God I use spaces liberally in my passwords.
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by georgefox 15y ago
This post strikes me as absurd and offensive. First of all, the author comes off as exceedingly arrogant. That aside, there is an implicit judgment made in the post that STEM subjects are inherently more intellectual, more legitimate, and m
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by georgefox 15y ago
My apologies if I came across as making some sort of ad hominem attack here based on the grammar in your post. Let me re-iterate: for a non-native speaker, your English is very impressive. Sure, there were a few awkward phrasings and some g
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by georgefox 15y ago
If English is not your first language, then you're obviously doing quite well. As a fairly typical American, I can only speak English, and I have much respect for anyone that's bilingual. (Incidentally, most of the bilingual Americans I kno

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