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by kennu 17y ago
I agree. I think Django's model system is a good example of when metaclasses can help a lot. It's essentially a domain-specific language that overcomes some of Python's limitations, such as remembering the order in which class attributes we
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by kennu 17y ago
I tried to build a solid web platform on PHP and Zend Framework for a few years. It proved very difficult. PHP doesn't provide much structure to build on. On the other hand ZF is overkill and slow with its massive class hierarchies and comp
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by kennu 17y ago
I think this proves enough about the complexity (from Lift tutorial, how you create a new project): mvn archetype:generate -U \ -DarchetypeGroupId=net.liftweb \ -DarchetypeArtifactId=lift-archetype-blank \ -DarchetypeVersion=1.0 \ -
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by kennu 17y ago
Am I the only one who finds those "cool" Bing background pictures very distracting? I think Google has it right. Users want to search so just give them the search by default. No extra crap needed until you actively ask for it.
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by kennu 17y ago
My advice was selfish. I run a personal server that is IPv6 connected, and sometimes web frameworks will break because the author tried to store e.g. REMOTE_ADDR in a VARCHAR(16) column. So I would like to promote the fact that IP address !
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by kennu 17y ago
The "Store IP addresses as UNSIGNED INT" hint is a really bad idea. The application will break on IPv6 connected servers. The same applies to storing IP addresses in a very short field like VARCHAR(16). It's better to just use VARCHAR(254).
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by kennu 17y ago
A zsh article from 2007? Come on! I even commented on it before realizing it's ancient stuff.
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by kennu 17y ago
MacBook, never power off. Just close the lid while travelling.
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by kennu 17y ago
Git is much nicer, because everything is in one .git directory and it can be kept outside the public webroot.
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by kennu 17y ago
It was a good article 3 weeks ago when it was featured on other sites. I dislike reading (slightly) old stuff in Hacker News.
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by kennu 17y ago
I usually watch tv or movies on my iMac's secondary screen while coding in vim on the primary. Most of the time it's not distracting. If it is, I switch to techno or trance on iTunes to get into the flow. However, when reading books, I am u