lotyrin

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811.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Absolutely. The dams of NIH have begun to break down. (I've started to see teams use things like Compass instead of conclude "But I have to install Ruby?") People are collaborating on actually finally decent solutions (Composer, PHPSpec2, B
812.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Anyone who could run a non-conforming PHP could just run something better. A conforming, but massively improved (read: JIT) PHP interpreter is really the only way forward for us who are so unfortunate. The good news is that there are starti
813.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I'm not sure why you don't get this, but there's a huge gap between not having money be the primary intended result of your actions and having money not at all be a result of your actions.
814.
by lotyrin 14y ago
The money spent on essentials may also be essential, but things can both be essential and the side effects of processes which have some other primary intent.
815.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I'm just hopping in to recommend "Saturn's Children" by Stross, which this comment has reminded me of. AI are created by building immortal human brain simulations, raising them, then cloning the results. Humans are not able to upload and ev
816.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Agreed. But in the DRM conversation, anyone having one means they can use their digital freedom to bypass DRM, the product of which could be consumed even on the hypothetical majority's closed devices.
817.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I don't think so. I fell in love with PostgreSQL in High School and that love only continues into my 20s.
818.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I'm not saying it's impossible, merely saying that the technical strength of a DRM system is often not one of the primary goals.
819.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Precisely. They've gone to an effort which should invoke the DMCA (as ridiculous as that is) and they have a bullet point somewhere on a power point they can show to content creators that says DRM. Those are the practical uses of any DRM te
820.
by lotyrin 14y ago
In my experience, the people that want me to use them have that exactly backwards.
821.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Honestly, if it's not worth 20 bucks a month to you, you probably aren't in their target market (deliberately priced out of it, for good reason).
822.
by lotyrin 14y ago
> It has gone from emphasizing the system (e.g. "magical iPad" or "I'm a Mac") to emphasizing the specs of components They aren't saying "Now with X% more pixels", it has a name and the name means an experience: sharper text and images.
823.
by lotyrin 14y ago
If they only had one, it doesn't matter how much it cost them to make, it's worth much much more than $100 dollars to someone. If there were enough supply that it were possible for it to be only $100 then it would have to already be ubiquit
824.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Then (as is the answer to many of the security concerns people have with Lockitron) just don't enable that feature. Also, anyone that's seriously worried about the security of this device should be mostly concerned that the standard keyhole
825.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Nope. They're busting the inner platform and having config live in the filesystem to get versioned like anything else. Good luck with those prejudices, though.
826.
by lotyrin 14y ago
All of the configuration for my Drupal sites DOES live in a VCS (it just doesn't have to, and many people don't bother). Drupal 8 is continuing to make this easier and more powerful, by (amongst other changes) making configuration live in t
827.
by lotyrin 14y ago
On a site that is version controlled and has a QA workflow for changes, you simply disable the UI for changing those things on production, and the only way to influence them is by committing the changes exported as code and deploying. The U
828.
by lotyrin 14y ago
It's not about frameworks so much as whether people use them. In Python and Ruby, pretty much everyone knows to look for useful gem or pip packages and uses frameworks and does a good job of avoiding reinventing wheels. In PHP, there's stil
829.
by lotyrin 14y ago
If you compare it to a framework it loses, obviously. It's massive and complicated. And while PHP's is trying hard to modernize, the tools and ecosystem still don't compare to Ruby or Python (see below). Drupal is only for when what it (or
830.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I work on big Drupal sites and this simply is not true. Drupal lets you get a ton of shit accomplished without making you understand a single line of code, have a reasonable Dev-Stage-Prod workflow, QA, even version control or backups, etc.
831.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I've been doing Drupal full time for the past four years and I'll agree 100%. People that try to build applications in Drupal are running a fool's errand. It's got a ton of code and another ton of assumptions, but that's the thing; when tho
832.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Anything not at either end of that spectrum (I'd argue Wordpress, for instance is dangerously close to being an example) is a compromise which shouldn't exist because it will incur a heavy maintenance burden (greater than the limited but si
833.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Because more = better (obviously), and my keys are going to continue to have privileges on machines several hundred years from now. /s
834.
by lotyrin 14y ago
The sites which would consider using this already have email password resets and persistent session cookies, which have the same problems.
835.
by lotyrin 14y ago
It's not that way because somebody in the 70's flipped a coin and decided that sync was heads. It's because it's a reasonable assumption to make. Data loss shouldn't be a surprise, if I need speed and am willing to risk dataloss I should ha
836.
by lotyrin 14y ago
I find the sexualization of this article to be completely unnecessary, especially the attempt at humor toward the end; the author is effectively saying "lol premature ejaculation" and I'm not sure what that is supposed to add.
837.
by lotyrin 14y ago
It also allows for pages that were generated and cached before changes were made to still have resources, as well as other cases where you might have divergent sets of resources (split tests, rolling deployments, etc.)
838.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Same thing here, also from Animation.
839.
by lotyrin 14y ago
A mildly interesting old article that has nothing to do with anything. Am I on Reddit? Edit: Yep, posted earlier today: http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/yp94q/til_tha...
840.
by lotyrin 14y ago
Yeah. Also, if your TLD belongs to somewhere with a less than stable government, who knows if they'll just stop caring about you. And, a portion of your users will always try to go to whatever.com instead of whatev.er, the worst part is you

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