jkoudys

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by jkoudys 12y ago
All true, but practically speaking I don't know how complete the spec needs to be. Looking at the HHVM project, they fail a lot of the basic PHP unit tests, yet also have 100% parity with nearly every major CMS/framework there is.
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I consider myself a strong software developer, and let me tell you: if someone is acting like a dick now, it won't matter if you're on the same level as them or not. So long as you're treating them with courtesy, respect, and
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I know, and I think they're making the right decisions to make it the best drupal it can be. I was really excited about it 2.5 years ago. My point is I think the fundamental idea of drupal is obsolete. If it can eke out a few more year
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Laravel/symfony are just one component. It's the approach of organizing your site as packages, and properly namespacing and exposing well-documented class libraries of your own that's becoming the dominant approach even for w
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by jkoudys 12y ago
The spaceship <=> is actually a lot cooler than many PHP devs realize. Rails devs find it extremely handy. Now that my PHP apps are moving away from being big apps that render full web-pages, and towards being a thin application layer
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by jkoudys 12y ago
D8's a work in progress, and if there's one thing I wouldn't be too critical of a wip for, it's performance. Frankly I don't really see drupal's place in the world anymore. It's so absurdly config-heavy, w
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by jkoudys 12y ago
hacker news is predominantly pre-CSS style code, e.g. the only CSS seems to be basic fonts and the upvote arrow, both of which the site would barely be different if run without CSS. Here's their only stylesheet: https://news
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I was wgetting all my http requests until about 2 years ago. Curl's undeniable coolness won me over after 15 years. Now I practically live in curl when I'm setting up webservices, and libcurl for PHP does something on nearly every
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by jkoudys 12y ago
This proposal is trying to take a common web design pattern, MVC, and make it part of the official spec. HTML is a _markup language_, it's ridiculous to use it as anything but a semantic language. Here's my HTML6 proposal: There’
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by jkoudys 12y ago
XSLT is still good to learn -- I think it's conceptually sound, but its implementations are often terrible. I think the big pain points for most people are how finicky XML is in general, but also that any libs you use to generate your
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I don't think so. When I go back and watch TV shows or read headlines from around when I was born, they weren't any better back then, I was simply too young to realize how ridiculous they all were. Case in point, the mass hysteria
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by jkoudys 12y ago
It's a problem with capitalism insofar as under capitalism, the most successful companies will directly influence their government to protect their existing business model. You had a prime opportunity to rethink the entire auto-market,
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I remember being a kid, and thinking that CNN must have some really intelligent, mature writing, that I was simply too young to understand. Now, they post these sensationalist headlines (I was expecting it to be a play on words, e.g. it was
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Yikes, that's bizarre. I don't even think the conclusions they draw are even correct: there are many solutions I build from scratch because they're easier to maintain. e.g. this morning I needed to fetch data from 3 APIs: goo
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Finally! I had a lot of concerns about this, but I think they're mostly answered by the discussion. I do like the way union types work (at least nullable types) in Hack, but I think they existing `foo(int $param = null)` approach is fi
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by jkoudys 12y ago
If you're looking to find some rude, inappropriately hostile PHP pedants, there are plenty of them on IRC. A language that has so many ways to do one thing attracts a lot of people who believe their way of doing that thing is correct a
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by jkoudys 12y ago
You've basically described 99% of the PHP development community there too. When there are so many ways to do something, it fosters the worst kinds of pedants, who don't seem to understand that "using exactly the same syntax&#
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Par for the course as far as Google's concerned. This is the one caveat I give all my clients before going ahead with using any google service beyond gmail, since you can easily get the rug yanked out from underneath you. It's not
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by jkoudys 12y ago
> The main effort of the team has been focused on speed, with performance reportedly improved from 2 to 3 times compared to previous releases. Definitely good news, as MySQL came out during the peak of Moore's-law (or, more appropr
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I understood why they did this 9 years ago, when I first bought auto-insurance online, but it's certainly not a technical requirement it be done this way now. My hunch is there's some kind of regulation/agreement between insu
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Hack's backed by its own open-source community too, and in its own way, is also backed by the PHP community. Laravel, symfony, cakephp, doctrine, etc. are often run on HHVM and support hacklang applications. What makes PHP better makes
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by jkoudys 12y ago
Hack also works really nicely with PHP - I think a lot of PMs hear about hack and think it's a workalike but completely separate language, not realizing that you can (and almost always will) have hacklang running alongside php. You&#x2
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I've found the same as you - people are getting their PRs when needed. In the earlier days of the project, it may have been true that they were less accepting of any non-critical changes (as they were still getting the core together),
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by jkoudys 12y ago
I half disagree with the third point - the documentation is certainly lacking (I recently used Redis on an HHVM site, and the adaptor had no documentation that it even existed; just read the source to figure it out), but it's a new-ish