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by nir 16y ago
I don't think PHP is a beautiful language. But that's beside the point. Sometimes you need a hammer, sometimes a screwdriver. You don't dismiss a tool because it's not pretty.
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by nir 16y ago
Also, AWS/Heroku/GAE give you non-shared-hosting ways to deploy. Still, another tool in the box.
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by nir 16y ago
"Despite its popularity, PHP is considered by the programming elite, almost without exception, as one of the worst languages currently in use today" I would say, the blogging-about-programming elite, rather than the actual programming eli
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by nir 16y ago
Definitely - but watching Apple's current iPhone/iPad policies, which direction seems more likely?
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by nir 16y ago
The current App Store policies aren't a theory. The move to the App Store for laptop/desktop was just announced. Apple isn't Evil, it does what any company would do if it could. It's disappointing to see this discussion degrading to Apple f
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by nir 16y ago
I'm writing this on my 3rd Macbook. I don't have any reason to spread FUD against Apple. I think dropping Java (there isn't currently a real alternative to Apple's) is a strong indication. The App Store policies are a strong indicator, and
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by nir 16y ago
I'm surprised at the generally positive approach in HN toward Apple's recent announcements. Apple is about to have control over the user's system no one since mainframe-era IBM ever came close to. Not only they're about to move desktops/lap
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by nir 16y ago
Maybe they will, maybe not. But for the moment Apple is effectively dropping Java support, and that's not a minor thing. I'm writing this on an MBP and might well post from a Macbook Air someday but I think Hacker News is giving Apple a ver
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by nir 16y ago
> Apple is deprecating their own version of Java on OSX Isn't it also the only version of Java known to run reliably on OSX?
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by nir 16y ago
>"spy? now where did anyone suggest that?" When OP said Lewin was "ex-mossad"? When you suggested being from Sayeret Matkal is "not that big of a difference" from being in the Mossad?
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by nir 16y ago
Ask HN: How does growing # of URLs convert to growing business? I have a small app that does the opposite of bit.ly (converts shortened URL to the original ones, adding some info like page title etc). It's also "growing like crazy" - no big
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by nir 16y ago
Actually, I think saying Lewin was "an ex-mossad Sayeret Matkal expert who "coincidently" was seated right next to the terrorists who flew Flight 11 into the WTC" followed by "The US people must demand a new 9/11 investigation" suggests exa
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by nir 16y ago
The rationale is that you call Lewin ex-Mossad with no evidence at all, and you allege had a part in 9/11 when the FAA documents actually suggest he tried to fight the hijackers and was stabbed to death.
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by nir 16y ago
You could definitely do this with KalSMS (at least the responding part should be pretty easy). Let me know if you go for it, will be happy to help out if I can. Do u find Nexus phones on CL/pay as you go? Pay as u go would be great.
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by nir 16y ago
Yeah, I had it after working with RapidSMS for a while ;) Would definitely love contributors - my Java sucks. Have tasks in the pipeline like async HTTP reqs, a request log view etc. Email me at niryariv@gmail.com and let's hack!
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by nir 16y ago
Working on KalSMS - an app that lets an Android device function as an SMS gateway: http://github.com/niryariv/KalSMS/wiki If you live where Twilio/Textmarks/etc already cover, it's just a fun hack, but in developing nations it could be a
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CodeIgniter web hosting(getcloudigniter.com)
2 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
I made a simple URL lengthening JSON/P web service: http://therealurl.appspot.com/ - will be happy to help any devs working on these scripts.
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Craig Newmark: NPR Will Be the Dominant News Force By 2020(theatlantic.com)
2 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
One reason I like HN is that comments seem to lean more towards the Perceptive (vs Judgmental) end of the scale in the Myers-Briggs sense, compared to other sites. So it's sad to see many of the responses in this thread. Myhrvold/Lyons/News
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Cognitive Slaves(globalguerrillas.typepad.com)
3 points by nir 16y ago|0 comments
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by nir 16y ago
I agree the problems you're referring to are real, but it seems to me Americans are more aware of them than you might think (BTW, I live in NYC but I'm not American). They elected a president who's decidedly a pragmatist (I think McCain wou
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by nir 16y ago
Interestingly, Nokia's downfall is caused in part by its failure to compete with Google & Apple's - two American companies - innovation.
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Contributing (how to contribute to open source projects)(contributing.appspot.com)
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Rural outsourcing helps Arkansas compete with India(money.cnn.com)
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by nir 16y ago
A lot of people here seem to focus on reasons why startups won't hire Dave Winer, but the this isn't a Winer-specific situation. Startups aren't filled with personable JSON-loving 50 year olds, or even 40 year olds. One reason may be that m
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by nir 16y ago
If you're a startup with little cash looking for talent, you can either (a) offer co-founder level equity, (b) employ, perhaps remotely, people living where market rate is cheap or (c) hire someone at market rate for limited scope consultin
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by nir 16y ago
PHP had some poor defaults early on, but that was fixed long ago. Any decent PHP framework deals with SQL injection or XSS in the same way decent Ruby/Python/etc framework does. Judging from the fact they already released code and have expe
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by nir 16y ago
Judging by the amount of open source PHP code out there, some of it powering major websites, I'm not sure at all it's "a language many hackers dislike".
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by nir 16y ago
Denmark went evil?? What did you do?

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