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I've used autojump for years. https://github.com/wting/autojump It allows you to quickly navigate your filesystem via the shell by learning the directories you commonly visit/have visited.
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I agree. For the last series of GoT I bought a month pass from a streaming service in the UK--"Now TV" or something--to watch it. It was a reasonable price, so I think they were successful there. On the other hand, the last series
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> Core Inflation is needed so that they can apply the right monetary policy. If you want your 'personal' inflation, they have data for that too. Why does applying the right monetary policy depend on excluding inflation in food
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> The number of rubes you could convince about tulips in Amsterdam was finite, but on the Internet... I think a lot of "investors" (gamblers) know it is mostly a scam, but are hoping they're not going to be the ones left w
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> Computers are so hard to run now, that we are supposed to give up and pay a subscription to someone .... Computers were hard to run when installing an OS meant you burnt CDs. And medium tier "webhosting" meant an expensive co
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The example appeared to overemphasise the "small talk" part, in practice it is usually boiled down to "I hope you had a good weekend..." on Mondays, or "I hope you are well..." on other days of the week.
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> class boundaries still endemic (it is amazing the US tech companies went into this, Google/Facebook/etc. seem to have hired the Notting Hill set as soon as they came to London) In the UK, the working class used to be propelle
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> Along with that Brexit has cost the UK a ton of money.. this net contributer stuff was literal propaganda. The fact that the UK was a net contributor to the EU is uncontroversial [1]. Please cite sources if you're making a drastic
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I was going to say the same thing. Truly bizarre that Oracle did this for so long. There was even a petition about it. https://www.change.org/p/oracle-corporation-stop-bundling-as... It seemed such a counterproductive
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Right and left are as much personality traits, as political opinions. The conservative working class doesn't necessarily want tax breaks and handouts, especially if structural problems remain, like the complete capitulation to artifici
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> Even as a kid I instinctively understood that as a white dude I have it easier in America I think Barack Obama got it right, when he recognised that talk of "white privilege", bred resentment especially amongst the working cl
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> in terms of the level of OOP [1] insanity I would have to question how relevant a piece of core plumbing is to a regular user of the framework, as a regular user of the framework would likely never come across this class. Also if you&#
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My favourite desktop is the Unity desktop by Canonical, which used to be the old Ubuntu desktop. I felt like I could tell they were building it for actual users. There were things like the corner pixels activating logout, so you could just
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> I think we have a vastly differing definition of "in production". Running software that customers use, directly or indirectly. I've supported servers running PHP and Java software in production. The shared-nothing per-re
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> You seem to be referring to an area where people pay pennies + have almost zero programming experience so they want to launch a project with clicks. Over my career, I've worked with companies using PHP in sales. One of those had
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> I don't really understand the reasons for using PHP outside of that people are already familiar with it and like working with it or want to find jobs in that area. I look at it this way sometimes: there are the interpreted languag
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You asked > So tell me again, why should I use PHP? How will it truly help me? What does it do better than everyone else? I gave some reasons, citing problem domains for which there are stable, supported solutions in PHP. e.g. payment ga
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> use PHP over other decent modern languages and ecosystems There's not a lot that is comparable to the PHP ecosystem when it comes to bespoke web-based e-commerce, or anything to do with bespoke customer or content management. If y
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If you're happy with Elixir, just use Elixir. But companies might want to use PHP, because it has a rich ecosystem, which handles corner cases. Chances are, if you want to send out bulk email, or connect to a payment provider, there&#x
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I'm a PHP fan, but I think the following needs clarification > package manager to install dependencies (PHP apps are self-contained) PHP has Composer, which is one of the best things to happen to the ecosystem. Chances are, the pie
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> Anybody who tries to convince new programmers to learn PHP is doing them a great disservice. It depends what location you're in. In Europe there are pockets where PHP is very popular, where learning it can open up the job market.
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I don't agree with Symfony being inherently "very heavy". As set of framework components, you can any part you find useful, and wire to together yourself, if necessary. e.g. https://symfony.com/doc/curren
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There used to be bad defaults, such as "magic quotes" and "register globals". Register globals was turned off in later versions of PHP 4. Magic quotes was turned off in PHP 7, released in 2015. PHP today is no more &quot
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> Never owned a credit card, don't have the slightest wish to do so. I own a credit card, as you get additional consumer protections using a credit card rather than a debit card in the UK. Pay it off in full every month. No problem.
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This was one thing I found difficult learning Gradle: its seeming complete lack of autodiscoverability. I expected it to catch on, but I think a lot of people are sticking with Maven.
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Firefox on Android.
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The video autoplayed for me, with sound. I'm sure the website is good, but that is super obnoxious to me. Edit: using a phone, so maybe it was a button press that activated sound.
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I greatly prefer books over videos when it comes to learning programming topics. I'm always disappointed when I am directed to a video, rather than text, when I'm searching for a particular topic. It takes a long time to seek to w
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I can second that book, speaking as someone who also hasn't really programmed in JS in a while.
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I was also thinking that the "blast radius" for PHP was lower, as there wasn't the same culture around creating packages. Until composer, there wasn't much of a culture around creating packages full stop, apart from PEAR

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