grumpycanuck

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by grumpycanuck 14y ago
Nice American-centric view there. Up here in Canada we can use 'debit' to pay using our bank account with a separate card from our credit cards.
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The Grumpy Programmer's Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications(grumpy-testing.com)
12 points by grumpycanuck 15y ago|2 comments
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
I have a book I published using Leanpub and I set the minimum to be $10. Some people pay the minimum. Some people pay the suggested price of $15. Some have even been as generous as to pay MORE than the suggested price. If I ever decide to
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
I suggest you do some research about the author of the MicroPHP manifesto before throwing snark out there like that. Ed is a personal friend (and we do a podcast together) with many, MANY years of experience building applications using PHP.
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
Just took a look, that is an awesome paper.
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
My experience is that it is a very rare and enlightened management team that allows developers to go back and clean up the technical debt that was created during the mad dash to get your application out the door. Most of the time you are st
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
Author here: With the understanding that I do most of my work in the most-bullied, down-trodden programming language here on Hacker News (PHP) I think that your choice of language, framework and persistence layer leads to technical debt o
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
(Blog post author here) Upon reflection your use of the term "friction" is a good one. Although I tend to look at "debt" as something you pay back as quickly as possible but sometimes you can only pay it back in installments. I guess you co
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
(I'm the blog post author) I would place database design debt firmly in the technical debt side of the ledger (as it were). To me, infrastructure debt deals more with consistency across environments and consistency in moving code from one e
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
Blog post author here. Yeah, I figured it has been around a lot longer than 20 years but I thought the 20 year thing would get the point across.
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
I'm a long-time PHP user (since 1998) but I never really peered inside the discussions of the internals of PHP. Now that I'm more connected to others in the PHP world, what you see inside the mailing list for PHP internals is what I would l
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PHP Hacking aka trying to push PHP internals forwards(xarg.org)
92 points by grumpycanuck 15y ago|61 comments
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by grumpycanuck 15y ago
Why not do it through a PEAR channel instead of basically creating your own version of it?
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
In the presentation shown at http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/09/customer-develo... (specifically the last slide where he talks about the Five Why's system) it seems to me that the guru of Lean Startups is a advocate of automated
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
I must be an old curmudgeon because whenever I see Campfire I think "it's like IRC but with a better client" and wonder what the big deal is. Sure, it's in a browser but is it really that big a deal? I just can't seem to get properly excit
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
I was using Capistrano too but, like you, couldn't get my co-workers up-and-running with it so we switched to using Phing. I didn't want to be the only one doing deployments at work.
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
Where I work we use IRC as the main way to communicate (we all telecommute) and I have a window open all day long. The secret? Tell your IRC client to make a noise whenever someone mentions your IRC nick and then ignore the IRC window unt
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
I have no idea if she would become more organized as a result of having a couple of kids. My observations of other people who have had kids leads me to conclude that disorganized single people rarely become organized parents.
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
I know it's a shot in the dark, I'm also guessing that you don't have kids of your own. If you did, you would understand wanting the best for your kids, not the minimum.
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
"You seem to have a model of the human brain as a machine with a moral selector. If it is set to "good", then the morally-correct neural programs are automatically activated, producing a moral outcome, or at least a valiant attempt interrup
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
Me and the missus don't split things up that way, but I can see how it would work. However, you did hit the nail on the head: defining who is supposed to do what means you don't have to spend all sorts of time worrying about whether thing
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
Oh no, I understand what the author says. I just disagree with her views on it. There is a huge difference between "I am not being responsible but want to be, tell me how" and "I take on too much stuff and then give up to surf the interne
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
I'm sure I'm going to get flamed and/or down-modded for taking the contrarian postion on this. Shame on me for choosing to accept the challenge of being an adult in our modern society. If you think that going to the bank, doing your laundr
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
As a long-time PHP developer (12+ years, yuck it up PHP haters) I look at this with a combination of awe and disappointment. Awe that someone would be willing to take on implementing a version of PHP that can run on the JVM much like Querc
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
I've been telecommuting for 3 years now, and I can agree that a large number people seem to think that all telecommuters are slacking off and lounging around in their pyjamas instead of working. Like the writer of that article, I get up an
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by grumpycanuck 16y ago
It's the rare person who changes their mind when they've taken a very strong position. Kudos to Alex for being willing to take a real look at the iPad and figure out what his real concerns with the device were.
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by grumpycanuck 17y ago
I'm using LuLu for print-on-demand copies of the book, just like I did before. I went with someone else to help with PDF sales.
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by grumpycanuck 17y ago
I self-published a PHP programming book ( http://www.littlehart.net/book ) and I've sold about the same number of copies as he has (~200 between PDF and LuLu) but (a) I didn't charge as much as he did and (b) didn't hook up with any affili
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by grumpycanuck 17y ago
I know it seems obvious, but determining when to create your own tech instead of using or extending existing solutions is tough. Even tougher given the tendency of people to think their situations are unique instead of being "just like sit
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by grumpycanuck 17y ago
Yawn Another ineffectual "solution" to a problem that cannot be solved. The idea of some nosy, self-important passenger on a flight deciding who is and is not a terrorist is ludicrous.

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