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by mikey_p 14y ago
One point of note is that you selected "bug" for the category/tag for your feedback. By almost anyone's definition of review vs. bug report there is a big difference and posting a bug report as a review doesn't ensure that the developer wou
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Use the Strategy to avoid the Switch-Case antipattern(odino.org)
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by mikey_p 14y ago
With PHP 5.3.9 or 5.3.10 and php-fpm a new method of process management called ondemand was introduced that handles this use care very well. With a super short idle timeout (a few seconds) this could work very well for shared hosting, but I
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Anyway to make this not require a MySQL DB? It'd be awesome if it didn't require any DB at all to run.
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by mikey_p 15y ago
That's the reverse of that the author is trying to do, which is open a terminal window, when he has a Finder window open.
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I've been wanting to use Bootstrap with some other CSS syntaxes for awhile, and I was wondering how you manage the conversion from less to scss and stay up to date with the latest Bootstrap changes?
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I actually think iOS is a terrible example, and that Apple apps are undoing years of good design lately. One of my favorite features about my Android phone (despite that fact that all the apps are still laid out however the designers feel)
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Anymore, I consider system wide package installation to be a liability, not a feature. The whole point/purpose of npm or composer is local installation. Look at the mess of Gem/Bundler and then you have to factor in that rvm and rbenv are b
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by mikey_p 15y ago
The problem is that Ruby doesn't solve the package problem either. Gem and Bundler are a mess, and using something like rvm or rbenv to fix this is an even bigger mess (although it works). If you really want to see something a bit different
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Impress.js + Jekyll + Github pages = Hekyll: presentation nirvana(brianmcmurray.com)
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Note that this is not a traditional repl in the style of of Python or IRB that evaluates each line individually. With php -a you have to enter an entire script, and then exit to run it, and which point you can no longer interact with the va
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Most of the services mentioned in the article can add "charges" to each months accounting for things like usage based systems. Of course if you're payments are completely variable, you'll have a hard time calculating with any service that c
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by mikey_p 15y ago
While I'm not saying that's not a real concern, I don't think I've ever seen code that would blow up from that. I think this comes from the concept of "limited surface area" that the OP outlines.
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by mikey_p 15y ago
> But still, having dealt with library version issues sometimes, I think "concurrent library versioning" and "sophisticated package management" sound awfully nightmarishly black-magic to me. This isn't really much black magic to it, all
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I've wondered for years why GitHub doesn't provide a license field as part of the repo along side name and description. I've been known to pester people after they point me to their repo, and ask them to add a license before I'll use their
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I wonder how many startups in Portland are jumping with joy after checking their emails this morning. In all seriousness, I bet this will be an extra boost for the startup scene here, and soon be another bullet point on the list of why Port
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I would say that one major distinction is that Github is a tool designed to manage repos and make sharing code easier, with a ticket tracker bolted on. The whole Altassian suite is centered on JIRA, so it's more of a ticket tracker with cod
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PHP Fog: October 27th Downtime Postmortem(teamblog.phpfog.com)
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Are you thinking of Great White and The Station nightclub fire?
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by mikey_p 15y ago
It depends on which memcache lib you're using for PHP but it can be disabled if I remember correctly.
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I won't argue that PHP is getting long in the tooth, has a somewhat unclear future, and some of the standard lib is hella inconsistent, but these points: then what PHP is lacking is lambdas and method chaining. Does the author know anythi
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by mikey_p 15y ago
>But say you have a untrustworthy employees (it happens), Well that's still a PCI requirement, but many more of their requirements wouldn't apply (i.e. rendering stored PAN unreadable, etc). When in doubt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Not only that but their docs include sample responses. I'm amazed at how many folks document their APIs but leave out this simple step. It can be a huge help when shopping around between providers, both just to see the quality of their docs
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I fail to see how the original post was "cheeky" if it was a factual correct and accurate answer to the question. What's a car dealer going to say? They probably won't even give you an upper range, just "This model starts at $34k" or someth
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I'm really surprised by the responses here. No one is saying that you should smart off to a client, but the quality of an estimate is going to be in response to the quality of the question. "How much is a website?" is about as helpful as ph
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Well considering that there are about 12,000 projects hosted on Drupal.org and that it has it's own packaging system this is a pretty pointless example. I've never met anyone using apt to install PHP applications. Given the ways that apt us
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by mikey_p 15y ago
Alex this argument is just ridiculous. After all you've been through with the Drupal community lately you should know that for all intents and purposes I haven't seen any conclusive evidence that Acquia is hurting Drupal. They aren't using
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by mikey_p 15y ago
While I find this fascinating, I'm sure this is old news to people in the business, like the people that run the grocery/chain store savings programs. What I'd be really interested to see is why this works, and what it tells us about distr
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by mikey_p 15y ago
As someone who runs his own consulting business, if I had clients who didn't know what they were doing and abusive towards me, I'd drop them in a heartbeat. The original poster on reddit isn't going to garner any sympathy from me.
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by mikey_p 15y ago
I truly don't know how such a ridiculous article made it to the top of Hacker News: The widely accepted problem with MySQL is that it wasn’t built for webscale applications [snip] and: In Stonebraker’s opinion, “old SQL (as he calls it)

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