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by mdasen 18y ago
Firefox is a memory hog - you can't deny that. Of course so are other browsers. I've been using Firefox all day (6 hours now?) and loaded hundreds of pages and have 8 pages open now (including a flash-based music player) and it's using abou
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by mdasen 18y ago
I think it's that the term "programmer" is so loose in the PHP community that good programmers have gone away from PHP. I know that it makes looking for jobs intolerably annoying. In interviews, you're talking about programming as people w
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by mdasen 18y ago
For #2: You simply need to change the session store in PHP. You can easily make PHP sessions database backed.
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by mdasen 18y ago
So, I don't know a ton about this, but I know that you can send text messages as emails. Usually it's phone_number@specialdomain.com. Like, for T-Mobile USA, I think it's t-zones.com for the domain. You can ask people what provider they h
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by mdasen 18y ago
Mosso is one of those used-car-dealership services. They insist that you're getting something amazing, but they won't exactly tell you what you're getting. More importantly, their $100/mo plan includes 3,000,000 requests - that's not a lot
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by mdasen 18y ago
No. Google's AppEngine just isn't great for small sites (and by small I mean anything under reddit/digg sized). Why? Because AppEngine makes you program in a way that will infinitely scale - which is a lot harder. You have to denormalize
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by mdasen 18y ago
That would be great! Are you willing to pay an extra $150-300 for your cell phone? The problem is that it would cost more. In fact, you can already just buy a phone (unlocked) at many online places. The reason it isn't popular is because
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by mdasen 18y ago
The most important thing: use one of the long-term distros. If you choose Ubuntu, go for the LTS even when it isn't the latest. If you're a RedHat fan, pass over Fedora for CentOS/RHEL. If you go with Debian, don't use testing. My person
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by mdasen 19y ago
While Postgres seems nice, mySQL is still the choice of the majority of high-traffic sites that absolutely need to scale. I'm not saying Postgres is bad, but their only huge-volume user is Skype. They simply don't have as many of the huge
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by mdasen 19y ago
PHP gives you more slack than any other language. . . which is just enough rope to hang yourself with. To be honest, part of it will depend on your style and part of it will depend on your discipline. I'm a fan of Python. PHP is not my sty
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by mdasen 19y ago
1. You are allowed to use GPL code in a closed source application. If you distribute that application, you must release the source code to the entire application under the GPL. How is that different? If you're making something for interna
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by mdasen 19y ago
Of course it does. All other things being equal, you're more likely to be bought (and at a higher price). Of course, if you're much better with Lisp than other languages, you'll likely make something much better with Lisp so all other thi
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Possible warning against using Google's App Engine for Startups(staticallytyped.com)
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