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by mattlanger 16y ago
Not only should you roll with LAMP, but you should get yourself a framework, too. The top comment in this thread from about a year ago says it all, particularly the first bullet point: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=773447
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by mattlanger 16y ago
As a general rule of thumb my unease with a line of code is proportional to its distance from the left margin. There are exceptions, naturally, but that's generally how I judge myself: if I open a file and see 16 or 20 spaces on a line I'm
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by mattlanger 16y ago
In a similar vein is the superb "Programming Collective Intelligence", also from O'Reilly.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Interesting how many of the comments in this thread take the form of "This article is bullshit! I started coding when I was eight because I got my first computer by way of [something other than privilege or affluence]." Because if you've be
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Another reason to write more is that there tends to be a positive correlation between Writing More and Sucking Less [At Writing], and in the business world there's really something to be said for Sucking Less [At Writing] because regardless
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I started out thinking about Facebook and I ended up here(blog.mattlanger.com)
1 points by mattlanger 16y ago|0 comments
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by mattlanger 16y ago
How about calling out headline editorializing in a more civil manner?
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by mattlanger 16y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that not everyone would find a "that's what she said" joke all that clever, or even all that appropriate for a business to subtly present on its site. And I think this speaks to one of the poin
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by mattlanger 16y ago
.... aaaaaand it just stopped happening.
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by mattlanger 16y ago
Ha, DNS is legit. If we make requests by IP we get the same behavior.
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Ask HN: is ec2 mishandling your requests right now?
2 points by mattlanger 16y ago|4 comments
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by mattlanger 17y ago
It's not a "retweet implementation"--it's hypertext. If nobody can parse that then we've got bigger problems.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
The company was, literally, conceived over lunch and funded -- to the tune of $1 million -- by dinnertime. Interesting. There's more on page 3 in case you didn't read that far.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Well, along with cars, and sports video games, and basically anything else with some chronologically oriented release cycle. Really the only things to buck this trend were Microsoft operating systems in the 90s.
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Keep in mind that the article culminated with two key arguments, first that "the Western way of life is coming under pressure from two sides at once, Islam and climate change" and second that "the West can still be strong, provided it remai
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by mattlanger 17y ago
> land grab by google If anyone else was confused by this, I believe it is in reference to http://goo.gl I had not heard of that project until just now. It's nice to see they're giving it some thought rather than just slapping somethi
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I recognize this, and that the intention--as mentioned below--is to help out whatever poor sap has to wade through all the resume's coming in. But, in the context of the present economic zeitgeist, my sympathies go out to the fully qualifie
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by mattlanger 17y ago
1.) The person you want to hire is probably going to grate at the use of terms like "ninja" and "monkey", even if you only intended them ironically. 2.) The person you want to hire is probably going to think twice about working with a group
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by mattlanger 17y ago
> The report suggests the average American consumes 34 gigabytes of content and 100,000 words of information in a single day. Whoa, that's a lot of data. Interestingly, though, the Comcast ToS (just as an example: http://www.comcast.ne
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Indeed, he just referenced it this weekend in his Wave review: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/11/so-i-finally-tried-...
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by mattlanger 17y ago
None to speak of personally (I quit my campus job writing C++ for the college's scheduling system at $10/hr to go wait tables at a fine dining restaurant for $50/hr), but if you're looking for a classic story there's always Josh and Ricky a
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by mattlanger 17y ago
It's funny: several months ago I decided to make 2009 the year of my return to the command line. I did it "for the lulz", and it ended up being my greatest productivity hack ever . I moved personal and work email to Mutt and uninstalled my
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I was also a little puzzled by the post hoc ergo propter hoc tone of his assertion that "Human beings have no trouble keeping seven ideas in their head (hence the seven digit phone number)", if for no other reason than that I have an easi
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by mattlanger 17y ago
> Rarity: If text is not online, it doesn't exist. Be careful with that line of thinking. Time and again throughout the history of the digital age, data has ceased to exist precisely because it was in a digital form. Consider this remar
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Pretty cool! It seems to cover a lot of bases, too: a student's HTML must validate, she has to get her feet wet with at least a little bit of JS and Ruby, she'll have to open up Photoshop at least once--a pretty well-rounded picture of a pr
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by mattlanger 17y ago
I think you make a number of really valid points here. I've been thinking about this a lot lately through the lens of late-19th- and early-20th century European philosophy and literary theory, when guys like Gautier and Baudelaire and Malla
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Hey! Well the difficulty really arises when you want to go a step beyond full HTML control and allow for JS and AJAX (think pagination with really artful page transitions). How do you allow users complete control without turning your servic
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by mattlanger 17y ago
Great survey. Their question as to whether blogging is "too easy" really resonates with me: I began prototyping a CMS a while back on the premise that Blogging Should Be Harder (a reaction of sorts, I guess, to services like Posterous and T
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by mattlanger 17y ago
It's not the retrospective assessment of a business that's important here but the motivation that sets it in motion in the first place. Take a company like Facebook: those guys are really serious--almost evangelical--about the goal of mak
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by mattlanger 17y ago
> approach being an employee as a way to learn how to successfully run a business Or as is so often the case (and also a valuable learning experience) how to un successfully run a business.

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