mark_story

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by mark_story 14y ago
I don't think its really reasonable to say 'X sucks' without taking uses cases into account. While PHP has a number of shortcomings, it is great for things where ruby/rails would be huge waste of time. Build some small brochure websites in
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by mark_story 14y ago
As of PHP 5.4 you can use [] to define arrays. It saves some typing, and is less noisy on the eyes I guess.
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by mark_story 14y ago
It still looks like an inferior clone. The typefaces are all wrong, the kudos button has a wonky shape. Its differences are just enough to hit the uncanny valley for me.
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by mark_story 14y ago
Those are all webkit based browsers, so it seems normal that they'd all behave the same.
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by mark_story 14y ago
I didn't see where in the post, or comments here where that was said. Do you have a source?
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by mark_story 14y ago
Probably not, but you might want to give phpcpd, pdepend and pmd a try. They're all open source static analysis tools for PHP, and will find a number of potential issues. I also find getting a good set of rules for phpcs is extremely helpf
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by mark_story 14y ago
Slow news day I guess.
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by mark_story 14y ago
Even more sad if you live in a northern climate. You get go to work in the dark, and return in the dark. Daylight is just something that happens during work.
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by mark_story 14y ago
While I can understand this might have been fun from a hacking/building experience, I don't understand why do it. Everything except the micro templating already exists in python.
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by mark_story 14y ago
There was no bullying from intuit, it was a self-directed change. (disclosure - I work at FreshBooks)
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by mark_story 14y ago
What? how? Its in almost every programming language that I can think of.
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by mark_story 14y ago
From what I know its better than MySQL's full text and all its warts, but still not comparable to a lucene based search solution.
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by mark_story 14y ago
Sure it costs nothing until you are compromised and any valuable data you have is taken. Remote code exploits are extremely dangerous. And mitigating them with a small amount of i/o overhead seems like a fair trade off.
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by mark_story 14y ago
That's clearly not the case in all situations though. If its simply a userid there would be no reason to use pickle. JSON or simple string storage would be sufficient. Clearly people are storing far more than just a userid in their clien
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by mark_story 14y ago
Depending on the situation you would want database inserts to reflect the passage of time, and not always stick to a 'start of request/job' time. I can see the desire of the parent to want to have all the HTML generated with the same under
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by mark_story 14y ago
Thanks for sharing what you did though, it was a very interesting and illuminating read for me.
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by mark_story 14y ago
That idea kind of reminds me of the annotated source used for backbone. http://backbonejs.org/docs/backbone.html
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by mark_story 14y ago
All the examples are webkit only. And people wonder why opera and mozilla are a bit frustrated about the state of vendor prefixes and CSS.
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by mark_story 14y ago
Same for me on Firefox 14 on 10.8, both examples look the same.
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by mark_story 14y ago
If you're spending a few seconds rendering HTML, you probably have other big problems to solve above optimizing around time().
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by mark_story 14y ago
Bury bridgades and Pedobear ascii art are parts of digg we've all partially forgotten about I bet.
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by mark_story 14y ago
I call BS on this. From my experience in Toronto, there are many companies looking for developers and having a difficult time finding quality candidates.
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by mark_story 14y ago
For the longest time the installation instructions for NPM were almost exactly the same. But its worse when PHP does it :)
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by mark_story 14y ago
You're going to hate the future of all microsoft platforms then. Xbox, windows, and windows phone all share this design language.
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by mark_story 14y ago
Last I checked zepto doesn't have support for any of the simulated selectors like `:checked`, `:input` and friends. If you use any of them, its not drop in.
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by mark_story 14y ago
I really hope you never have to do a schema migration. That's going to be hell with your matryoshka database.
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by mark_story 14y ago
That's also a ton of tying and a lot of code that a minifier can't reduce. I guess its possible, but do you really want to writing such verbose code?
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by mark_story 14y ago
The biggest difference is Yammer has a reasonably stable revenue source in its customers. Instagram has 0 paying customers that I'm aware of.
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by mark_story 14y ago
Sure but $('.clicky').on('click', doSomething); means no loops at all, and will bind events to all matching elements. I don't think there is a native API way to do this. Edit: typos
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by mark_story 14y ago
Well one nice affordance jQuery offers, is you can do manipulations en-mass without having to write out a loop, or use Array.forEach(). This helps simplify event binding and manipulation code. Also there are selectors in jQuery that are n

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