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by lox 16y ago
Sounds like a chicken-and-egg problem to me. How about designers who are still at school and trying to get some part-time work?
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Ask HN: Anyone swapped to a MacBook Air as a primary development machine?
16 points by lox 16y ago|14 comments
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by lox 16y ago
Damn, I must have missed the initial submission. I've been migrating our developer environments over at 99designs to use Vagrant and it's been fantastic. What was previously an unmaintainable shell script is now a re-usable collection of ch
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Vagrant is a tool for building virtualized development environments.(vagrantup.com)
85 points by lox 16y ago|28 comments
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by lox 16y ago
A Puppet provisioner was recently committed to Vagrant.
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by lox 16y ago
The huge advantage to Chef is that it's just ruby, where as Puppet has it's own syntax for recipes. Another light-weight alternative for configuring new servers is Babushka: http://babushka.me/
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by lox 16y ago
Pheasant is small, I'm the author so I'm biased as to whether it's good though. http://getpheasant.com
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Reeder for Mac Released(madeatgloria.com)
49 points by lox 16y ago|39 comments
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by lox 16y ago
Great idea and great code. Nice to see re-usable, light-weight PHP libraries not coupled to larger frameworks.
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by lox 16y ago
I was under the impression that they are farmed now, although they are much friendlier to the environment per-head than cattle are.
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Idiorm: a nearly-zero-configuration data mapper for PHP5(j4mie.org)
1 points by lox 16y ago|0 comments
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Jailbreak for iOS 4.1 released(limera1n.com)
2 points by lox 16y ago|0 comments
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by lox 16y ago
So could we not update the A records IP address every couple of hours and still get roughly speaking the benefit of load-balanced load-balancers?
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by lox 16y ago
Does the IP of the AWS load balancers ever change over time? Does anyone know the technical reasoning behind the requirement?
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W3C Backs the WOFF WebFont Standard(sitepoint.com)
1 points by lox 16y ago|0 comments
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by lox 16y ago
Yup, seems to be a lot of listeners eager and not a lot of complainers. I did my best to complain for a while, but eventually got sick of it. Actually, might go back and complain about that.
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by lox 16y ago
Apparently the rest of the world doesn't deserve battle axes. I would have loved to enter. Totally need a battle axe.
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Ask HN: How should I secure virtual machines on developer laptops?
3 points by lox 16y ago|3 comments
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by lox 16y ago
Most of these gripes are fixed in PHP 5.3, although the lack of ability to access $this in closures drives me nuts. Aside from that, all languages have minor syntactic issues. Take your pick. I think the far bigger problem with PHP comes fr
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by lox 16y ago
Yup, I tend to agree. Via that post I ended up on a post by Terry Chay with some much more interesting quantitive analysis of PHP usage at Facebook: http://terrychay.com/article/hiphop-for-faster-php.shtml/4 One of the things that really
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What are the crawling horrors of PHP?(quora.com)
24 points by lox 16y ago|47 comments
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by lox 16y ago
Although there are far fewer contests overall. Our top designers tell us they tend to avoid the higher prize contests in favour of the mid-ranged ones where there is less competition and simpler requirements.
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by lox 16y ago
Absolutely, I look at it as creating a new segment of the market, much like crowdsourcing did for stock photography. 99designs main customers are small businesses that wouldn't otherwise have been able to justify what they view as a risky s
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by lox 16y ago
Why do they have to choose 1 database system? I never understand this reasoning. Pick the best tool for the job! I for one whole-heartedly agree with their decision. Considering the issues they've had recently with their internal networks,
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by lox 16y ago
Might I suggest something like Config::get('look_ahead') rather than GlobalSingleton? The design pattern used to implement something is generally far less useful than the purpose of the thing in terms of a name.
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by lox 16y ago
Don't you get sick of all the "global $look_ahead;" cruft at the top of your functions? Also, what happens when one of your new developers comes along and modifies the value of that in some unexpected way?
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Signs of Crappy PHP Software(phpfreaks.com)
16 points by lox 16y ago|40 comments
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by lox 16y ago
I couldn't live without test driven development, lets us ship code quickly. We have a large test suite using SimpleTest for testing the PHP side of things on 99designs, along with a custom web-based test runner. Only problem is our full tes
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by lox 16y ago
Basically he would have used a stolen credit card to pay for the contest he was suggesting on 99designs.com. Then he would have awarded the prize to the designer, but asked the designer to send him back some of the money "for tax reasons" o
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by lox 16y ago
We've seen this guy a number of times under different guises over at 99designs.com. Our anti-fraud systems mostly pick him up now, he's not particularly bright. Does anyone have a contact at 37Signals that I could provide with details?

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