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by marrs 11y ago
3 matches now :)
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by marrs 11y ago
Really? Fantasising about being him, maybe. It's usually the side-kick that one identifies with.
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by marrs 11y ago
How do you know these things are not affecting those men? Do men in their 50s not watch TV? Indeed, are they not more likely to exhibit behaviour that is old-fashioned or no longer tolerated? Are they not more likely to feel isolated or mi
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by marrs 11y ago
This is why you shouldn't rely on TV to provide your role models :p
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by marrs 11y ago
What's that got to do with anything? Men are more touchy feely now than they have ever been and the suicide rate is up, not down.
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by marrs 11y ago
Anyway, feminists fight for women. And this is the problem I have with feminists. We should be fighting for each other, not against each other. We are all on this planet together and we all deserve equal rights and opportunities.
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by marrs 11y ago
Are you really saying "all of society's problems exist because men run everything" whilst also saying "all of society's accomplishments are despite men running everything"? I don't mean to put words into y
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by marrs 11y ago
JS is a bad example because people who do that are preferring inheritance to composition, which is absurd. In the case of C, yes you can do that, and where performance is critical you might prefer to do it, but it's obviously not going
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by marrs 11y ago
But you can still progressively enhance with JS to achieve that nice UI, and often it will be more usable because it's built on a solid RESTful foundation that is close to browser behaviour and therefore user expectation. My experien
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by marrs 12y ago
Personally I would love me an nice ARM based notebook Then you can install RiscOS on it. Finally, someone will have caught up to 20 years ago.
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by marrs 12y ago
The autoloading basically fixes this, at least insomuch as you use the namespace that you want rather than require a file. Of course, you need an autoloader, and writing one is complicated enough that you'll want to use a pre-existing
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by marrs 12y ago
With PHP you don't need any of that. All you need is to rename your index.html to index.php and re-upload. The learning curve is incredibly shallow.
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by marrs 12y ago
this is not really code to learn from I used to work with someone who could look over my shoulder, read and evaluate my code, and then tell me where my bug was within seconds. He knew the code better than I did, and I'd writt
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by marrs 12y ago
I think you're absolutely on the money and I think your suggestions would really help. I'd like to add something: replace the down-vote button with a "report spam" link. The one thing that makes me rage on HN is seeing p
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by marrs 12y ago
Many people go into computer science because they want to know how computers work or because they want to know how to program that demo they just saw, or more applied things along these lines. Then they're in the
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by marrs 12y ago
you can always remap the keys
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by marrs 12y ago
In that case I take it all back! Sorry, I hadn't realised HHVM was so far along.
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by marrs 12y ago
First of all, I don't want to oversell this. I'm not overly precious about it and I'm not saying that having started with HTTP as a platform I wouldn't add JSON later. I'm sure I could find myself in a position wher
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by marrs 12y ago
She's already lost the job and it's not like they're going to publicise her grievance. I really can't see what risk there is to her of raising the issue. If I was her I'd also ask for their company policy on this so
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by marrs 12y ago
People go to GREAT lengths for the "eventual goal of sex" Like get married
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by marrs 12y ago
Surely "hello world" is useful only if you release it under a copyleft licence since its purpose is to teach you how to get started with the language it demonstrates. In any case, freeness is a goal for me as a user of softwar
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by marrs 12y ago
I don't really get your reasoning there. Forms are the mechanism for making parameterised requests over HTTP. If REST is your platform then it makes sense to start with them, regardless of any framework you are using. I'm not sa
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by marrs 12y ago
Based on the fact that you've never met me, or seen a line of my code, I don't really give a toss. You are the one who asserted that users of dynamically/weakly typed languages require unit tests, implying that users of stati
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by marrs 12y ago
Within my first 4 years of professional programming I'd already proved you wrong on pretty much all of your points. I'd maintained and extended a large application, written in PHP and Javascript, without the aid of an IDE or unit
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by marrs 12y ago
I take your point that this is nice syntactic sugar, but I don't like your example. You wouldn't typecast in this situation. You would check the value with is_numeric() or similar.
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by marrs 12y ago
PHP accepts nested key value pairs and frameworks can take advantage of that when accessing the $_REQUEST object. If you're bypassing the functionality that's baked into forms then you're going to have to put it back in at so
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by marrs 12y ago
He doesn't want this particular feature. Considering the amount that PHP has grown, he obviously does want it to grow.
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by marrs 12y ago
Well an obvious reason is all the PHP site that have already been written, are crucial components in many businesses, and cannot be upgraded to Hack. Those sites' authors may still want access to all that good stuff. In fact, this kind
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by marrs 12y ago
This is the point that ars is making. He is saying that it has to be a runtime check and/or conversion because it is coming over the wire, as a string, at runtime. So the question he is asking is, if you have to do the check at runtime
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by marrs 12y ago
Going slightly away from the topic, which I agree with you entirely on, btw... This is pure speculation on my part, but I wonder if a lot of the Google devs involved in JS in one way or the other just aren't that used to writing it. It

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