jamesmoss

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by jamesmoss 14y ago
Although I'm fairly indifferent about app.net I could read Dalton Caldwell's blog posts all day. He's a clever guy that puts across his points well.
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by jamesmoss 14y ago
Could this technique also work for video?
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by jamesmoss 14y ago
Yeah I hate that point too. I think a better solution would be to sit down with a co-worker and talk it through, rather than having to ask some god-like "architect" who knows everything about a system.
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Why PECL (C based) frameworks for PHP suck(blog.ircmaxell.com)
1 points by jamesmoss 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmoss 14y ago
I'd love to see a Kickstarter project for this so that author can be funded and complete the implementation.
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by jamesmoss 14y ago
Something I find really strange/frustrating with a few recent frameworks (Laravel included) is their overuse of static methods. You have these singletons floating through the framework which maintain state (Request, Session, Logging etc) bu
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by jamesmoss 14y ago
Cached version here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OT6g2bc...
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
If you hadn't guessed already, the author confirmed this was a fake this morning: http://seb.ly/2012/04/gotcha-fake-mmo-asteroids-april-fool/
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
Mine says I have to offer my employer first call on any potential work that comes my way, if they turn it down I'm free to take it on as long as it doesn't affect my day job. Additionally if I quit, I can't hire any of my co-workers at a ne
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
Great article. As a super techy guy something which really sticks out for me (and which has been confirmed by my day-job recently) is how key marketing seems to be. You can have the crappiest product but with the right sales team its possib
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Apple poaches Dixons chief, John Browett as VP of retail(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by jamesmoss 15y ago|0 comments
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GitHub is a fish bowl(wynnnetherland.com)
69 points by jamesmoss 15y ago|21 comments
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
If that's the case then they definitely need to make things clearer. There's only one mention of it on their homepage and nothing in the FAQ.
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
This looks like the first UK alternative to Stripe however it appears you can't accept cards from outside of the UK: Can I charge non-UK customers? You can charge anyone with a UK bank account. Very soon you will be able to charge anyone wi
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
I think the author has totally missed the point of jQuery which is why he's probably so frustrated. It's not meant to be used to build massive client-side applications, instead it's a tool to make dealing with the (terrible) DOM and AJAX AP
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
If you're running a version of PHP which is patched with Suhosin ( http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/ ) you'll already be protected from the DoS vector outlined in the article. By default Suhosin limits the max number of $_GET/$_POST/$_CO
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
Suggestion: Make the URL hackable. If I go to http://traceroute.im/ycombinator.org I should see a traceroute for ycombinator.org. Check out http://who.is for good example of this.
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Avenger controller company pisses off gaming community with bad customer support(penny-arcade.com)
271 points by jamesmoss 15y ago|90 comments
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
I hate to be a grinch but this seems a bit lower quality than the usual doodles. The whole thing reminds me of a 1998 Geocities site.
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
They are introducing shorthand notation for arrays in PHP 5.4 using the [] syntax. For whatever crazy reason using {} notation hasnt been implemented for objects. I really wonder what the phpinternals team are doing sometimes.
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
This is great but surely we need to be targeting a wider audience? SO is made up of tech enthusiasts, I imagine a large percentage of them have heard of SOPA and understand the issues. However they probably represent a tiny fraction of the
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Areweplayingyet.org: An initiative to improve HTML5 audio support(areweplayingyet.org)
14 points by jamesmoss 15y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
have never used a debugger at all for Ruby or the Pythons, though I assume they exist (nor for shell scripting or PHP, but do those exist?) You can remotely debug PHP using the xdebug extension ( http://xdebug.org/docs/remote ). You'll ne
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
The icon is a total rip of Adobes CS suite. Surely you could come up with something more original.
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
Why is the article comparing PHP (a language) to RoR (a framework). There's plenty of good PHP frameworks which have emerged over the past few years that take care of the boilerplate code needed for a web app. Symfony 2.0 was a released a
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
At the moment you can only sign up with a US address. As a stop-gap solution could they enable European addresses but with the caveat that you'd only be able to take payments in USD? This would be fine for me.
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
I looked into Chronopay, it seems a bit shady. Their co-founder was arrested recently too http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/06/chronopay-co-founder-arre...
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
I'd also like to know this. PayPal as a primary payment gateway should not be an option for any startup. What laws stop companies like Stripe, Recurly etc from easily launching in the EU?
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
Is this a joke article? I’d say the only valid point here is ‘Type Book Code Examples By Hand’ ‘Write Your Own Framework’ and ‘Re-Invent the Wheel’ are not good ideas and won’t make you a better coder, you’ll just end up writing more bad
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by jamesmoss 15y ago
This smells bad. Passing in a load of JSON (or URLON) seems to go against RESTful practices and really reduces the hackability of the URL.

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