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by mfonda 10y ago
In addition to this, if a lot of the libraries you're using are written in PHP, it makes a ton of sense that command line scripts using those libraries would also be written in PHP.
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by mfonda 10y ago
He's not making a comparison to the traveling salesman problem; he's saying the businessperson only intended to visit one city, but the trip ended up requiring visits to several additional cities. It's not a terrible analogy.
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by mfonda 10y ago
Amazon Restaurants is a great service which has been around for some time now, at least here in Seattle. I use it pretty much exclusively now instead of other similar services I've used in the past. The minimum order is much lower ($20
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by mfonda 10y ago
I wasn't a mega commuter, but I had a commute of around an hour. A few years back, I moved into the city. One of the most life changing decisions I've ever made. I didn't love commuting at the time, but it wasn't the wor
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by mfonda 10y ago
Much ad revenue comes from views, not clicks. Some quick back of the napkin math: - 21.2 billion visits in 2015 - Average of 9% of users using Ad Block - Let's assume an average CPM (amount paid per 1000 views) of $2.00 - Let's as
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by mfonda 10y ago
> A big part of this issue is that the barrier to entry in PHP is so damn low, almost everyone can start hacking wordpress templates. For many people, PHP is the first programming language they try without formal education. This really h
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by mfonda 11y ago
This is my biggest feature request here as well. I'll often write a lot of small comments inline in the diff, and a bigger comment on the PR itself tying everything together. It'd be nice to be able to submit it all at once, with
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by mfonda 11y ago
According to http://oosmos.com/feedback : > The core IP of OOSMOS, oosmos.h and oosmos.c, are currently shipped as obfuscated compilable source files. We'd love to speak with open source investors to figure out a bus
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by mfonda 11y ago
Another awesome functional library / extension for PHP is https://github.com/lstrojny/functional-php
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by mfonda 12y ago
Clicked on this link expecting it to be something about the Stable marriage problem or Gale-Shapley algorithm. Still interesting data though.
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by mfonda 12y ago
They're probably using "First Click Free". See http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/first-cli...
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by mfonda 12y ago
Some clarification here about PHP versioning: the next minor version of will be PHP 5.6, which is still under development and has not yet been released. What is referred to as PHP 5.7 here is phpng, a proposed next major version of PHP. T
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by mfonda 12y ago
That only works for consecutive integers, not any arbitrary values.
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by mfonda 12y ago
I think there was a more general question here that was missed: can a == x && a == y ever be true for any arbitrary values of a, x, and y, where x != y. From a logical point of view, no, this can never be true. I would suspect this
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by mfonda 13y ago
Great line from the interview: > WB: I can guarantee that you are wrong about where your code is spending most of its time if you haven't run a profiler on it. Definitely a good thing for all programmers to think about!
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by mfonda 13y ago
Stoves with built-in USB chargers already exist as a commerical product. For example, check out http://www.rei.com/product/846334/biolite-wood-burning-camps...
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by mfonda 13y ago
How does this compare to the existing s3cmd [1] tool? One issue I've had with s3cmd is it tends to use a lot of memory when syncing two large buckets. I'd love to see a tool that was faster / more memory efficient than s3cmd.
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by mfonda 13y ago
> Foster a good code review culture in which finding defects is viewed positively Any tips on fostering this sort of culture? I personally am vary grateful when others point out defects in my code, as I view it as an opportunity to learn
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by mfonda 13y ago
Very interesting read. I especially like the following quote: I figured if I couldn’t explain something clearly in documentation, nobody was ever going to understand it, and it probably wasn’t designed right. And once something was in the
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by mfonda 13y ago
Looking through the past few months of messages on http://status.github.com/messages , I'm really quite surprised at how many service outages, major or minor, are reported. It seems something goes wrong more days than not.
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by mfonda 13y ago
Summary: first interview the candidate to check for culture fit, then pay them to complete a 10-20 hour project. If the culture fit is good and project successful, hire. As a developer I don't like the idea of having to do a 10-20 hour proj
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by mfonda 14y ago
This is one of the things I love about vim. After 11 years, there's still so many new things to learn and improve your experience. I've been using vim just over a year now, and it seems every week or so I pick up a new trick that significan
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by mfonda 14y ago
This is a really great development for PHP. A bit more background on this for those not familiar with Zend Optimizer+ and PHP. Zend Optimizer+ is an opcode cache, and using an opcode cache greatly improves the performance of PHP. The improv
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by mfonda 14y ago
This looks like a great way to find movies. I was a bit confused at first about what the different colors (blue, red, grey) meant. After looking at the markup I came to the conclusion that blue meant positive and red meant negative. A bit l
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by mfonda 14y ago
Is the Go source for this available somewhere?
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by mfonda 14y ago
It looks like GitHub fixed this issue. No more lost comments. Thanks GitHub!
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by mfonda 14y ago
I found this tour a bit difficult to navigate. The tooltip moves to a different spot each time you click prev/next, making it hard to follow the whole tour. Perhaps navigation that stays in a fixed spot could make this easier to use.
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by mfonda 14y ago
If you're writing an inline comment (in normal mode, not Zen mode) on a commit and accidentally hit escape, your whole comment is lost. I think the biggest improvement to comments github could make would be to not wipe out everything you've
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by mfonda 14y ago
I think the phrasing of this title is poor. It seems to imply that Stallman's statement is ridiculous, yet most people (and the definition of spyware) seem to agree that this feature is is in fact spyware.
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by mfonda 14y ago
I haven't ever experienced what is described either (in personal projects or professional work). What I find gives me "coder's block" is when I have coding tasks that need to get done, but don't really require any thinking. Tasks that are j

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