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by jrgnsd 13y ago
I've always loved grep. Now I know why.
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
Some interesting thoughts on doing financial transactions using a REST API here: http://jpos.org/blog/2013/11/w55y/
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
Can you point to a blog post / article that describes this in greater detail?
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
affected?
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
*because
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South African banks in massive data breach(techcentral.co.za)
4 points by jrgnsd 13y ago|0 comments
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
I like PHP. I've coded in it (and other languages) for more than 10 years. I love the ease of use and the flexibility it offers. I must however add that, like a sibling comment, I think modern frameworks like Symfony 2 is the way forwa
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
My deapest, deapest sympathies. Up until a few years back I was doing the same. It was the most unproductive years of my life.
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
The only legacy code that people talk about is bad legacy code. People never fondly remember the function they wrote ten years ago that's still doing what it should do, no debugging required. It's always the function that's b
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
Silex is definitely a good lightweight alternative. For enterprise work Symfony 2 is a better choice, but if you need to throw things together (but need to keep the option of adding more features without writing them yourself) you can easil
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
I had to read through the Developer Terms of Use to find that out.
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
I thought this post to be quite ironic.
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by jrgnsd 13y ago
The IQ of a Mob = (The lowest IQ in the Mob) / (The size of the Mob) This from a Terry Pratchett book. Can't remember which one, but it's one of the earlier Discworld books.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
Anecdotal evidence, but I find that part of being an introvert is that you have fewer, but deeper, relationships. There might be research / articles to back this up. People are social beings, so both introverts and extroverts need friendshi
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
Getting to know this convention a while ago has made a huge improvement in how I code PHP. I never really knew what the order for haystack / needle parameters were before I read this. Now it's easy to remember.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / South Africa Jurgens du Toit jrgns@jrgns.net / http://jrgns.net Full Stack Systems Developer / CTO. I have 10+ years experience in the Web Dev world, with recent experience as Head of Development & CTO.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
I don't get why banks restrict the number of digits of a pin. The bank I'm with limits your pin to 4 digits. Is it a usability issue, or don't they realise that more digits means more pin options?
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
Not yet. I've been focusing on dev focused meetups for now, but will be expanding soon.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
How do you find your clients? I'd like to do pretty much the same, but I have a hard time finding clients. I've been lurking on reddit/forhire and building up my network, but there hasn't been any big hits yet.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
Apply this to programming, and it's easy to see why people using frameworks and libraries progress further faster: A number of of goals are reached by just spinning up the framework and installing a few gems.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
I think for a lot of people the Model is the DB layer. They then (rightfully) realize that you shouldn't combine business and DB logic, and then move their business logic into the Controller. So they're fixing a valid issue with an invalid
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
I'm not 100% sure where it fits in, but I tend to write have a Formatter service that is used by the controller to pass the model to the correct view. The Formatter inspects the Request to determine what format it should be (html, json, xml
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
To a certain extent yes. It helps to mitigate some common security holes, and sometimes prevents the coder from doing blatantly stupid like using unfiltered user input in queries. Unfortunately the basic PHP structure is borked, and even wi
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
I'm a full time PHP dev. My work is in PHP, my personal projects is in PHP, I even have a PHP framework (like everyone!) that I maintain. Yet I thought this post was right on target. I'm busy cleaning and finishing up my PHP projects, and t
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
I (attempted) building a flower box from wood and screws a while back. I spent quite a lot of time watching my dad build things in his workshop while I was little, but never really jumped in and did something myself. It amazed me how much I
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
SEEKING Freelance, Remote / South Africa - PHP Expert - JavaScript / Node / Backbone - API's - Backends and Frameworks - General Web Dev - Some SysAdmin Contact me on Twitter @jrgns
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
If you haven't read Freakonomics, I believe he's referring to the case of a nursery school that decided to fine parents if they were late in picking up their children. Instead of starting to be on time, the parents actually came later, as t
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Ask HN: How do you use IRC?
2 points by jrgnsd 14y ago|2 comments
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
I started typing in a password, and then thought that this is an easy way to harvest passwords that people think is hard to crack.
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by jrgnsd 14y ago
NoSQL isn't a replacement for SQL. It's a separate technology.

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