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by pauljonas 18y ago
No. Hasn't experience over the past 10+ years answered this question been already? 1. Audience shrinkage — less readers and posters would mean less garbage, but it would also denote less of everything, including quality… 2. Less of an attra
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by pauljonas 18y ago
I sure wish there was a NH filter that would enable me to /ignore any TechCrunch sourced articles…
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by pauljonas 18y ago
Palm’s embrace of “developer friendly” open platform philosophy for its new handset in development, in constrast to the decidedly unfriendly sandbox approach Apple has taken, certainly must be applauded. And a flock of delighted developers
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by pauljonas 18y ago
AppJet is really cool, it's a drop-dead simple way of doing javascript server web development, and great for both novice programmers whetting their teeth and grizzled hands to tinker with. It's missing a few features that would really make
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by pauljonas 18y ago
A great deal of misunderstanding about H1B and outsourcing... Perhaps I will be down voted for dissenting, but I do write from personal experience. I've seen thousands of jobs outsourced, and contrary to the wisdom expressed on internet for
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by pauljonas 18y ago
Google App Engine has all the makings of a great service, but for the reasons listed in the article, it fails... * ...1M limit is also on files uploaded — early on, created a game application with Django on GAE but had to trim down my /dict
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by pauljonas 18y ago
For me, the question isn't so much what Ruby has that Python lacks, but the extra Python bits I find annoying and/or tedious: * having to declare "self" in every method argument — reading code, it just clutters up the screen/page * the big
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by pauljonas 18y ago
In recent projects, PDO. Prior, used a custom object wrapper around the mysql functions — and it would be really simple change to swap out a different DB platform as all DB calls are abstracted and located in one class file...
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by pauljonas 18y ago
I looked at Symfony, CakePHP, and a few others (at time, Zend was not anywhere near production ready), and all just seemed like (a) overkill or (b) inadequate. In the final analysis, I wrote my own framework. On the flip side, homebrew fram
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The 5 hidden costs of running a CMS(thinkvitamin.com)
3 points by pauljonas 18y ago|0 comments
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Frameworks vs. Libraries in PHP(otton.org)
26 points by pauljonas 18y ago|12 comments
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by pauljonas 18y ago
Eh, that might not be a good idea...
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by pauljonas 18y ago
I understand developers wish to be rewarded for their effort but paying for a terminal program just seems so wrong.
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by pauljonas 18y ago
But he's no Mark Pilgrim!
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by pauljonas 18y ago
To be expected from the Gruber-bot. Don't you know? Apple is awesome, and those who criticize them "just don't get it". I am writing this on a Apple MBP, so it's not like I have total disdain for Apple products, but Apple fanboys can be inf
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by pauljonas 18y ago
NetNewsWire Have embarked upon a quest to break it — up to ~1000 feeds, and although it stalls out my MBP during huge updates, it's held up very well. Tried Google Reader but at about ~200 feeds, it crapped out and the whole AJAXy UI became
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by pauljonas 18y ago
/gratz on your release and good luck to Posterous Feedback: 1. It's not simpler, engaging a series of emails (if you want to have a Posterous address other than something like xY4.zgBX) is not as easy as 1-click. 2. You can post by email to
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by pauljonas 18y ago
I have all three "JQuery Reference", "Learning JQuery" and "JQuery in Action"… Of the three, "JQuery Reference" is the best — granted, you can access similar like reference material online, but I found it was nice to have in book form, with
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by pauljonas 18y ago
Yes, many of the "tricks" are Perl-esque. But #16 is a good one — I like one liners but after reading I looked through the code base in one of my projects and sure enough, explicit true/false was spelled out in methods returning booleans..
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21 Ruby Tricks You Should Be Using In Your Own Code(rubyinside.com)
17 points by pauljonas 18y ago|28 comments
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by pauljonas 18y ago
>So I tell her all this stuff, and I think, "Okay, we're going to have a conversation about authority or social construction or whatever." That wasn't her question. She heard this story and she shook her head and said, "Where do people
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by pauljonas 19y ago
Eh, matters arn't as simple as portrayed - a good bit of U.S. application support/development has went overseas to India... ...within a short 15 minute drive of my home in Arizona, I can tally thousands of programming jobs (mostly old schoo
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by pauljonas 19y ago
B.S. in Computer Science Guess you could call me a programmer as I wear many hats, but web developer is my prime role...
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by pauljonas 19y ago
Not a big fan of the Joel on Software but this is an amazing article... ...I used to be one of those "house programmers" too!
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by pauljonas 19y ago
Come on, give Aaron his due. He's had an impressive career to date, for such a young chap. He's a smart kid, hopefully, he has a shell to protect against such silly demeaning posts like this... Lots of startups end up going nowhere, it take
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by pauljonas 19y ago
Hacker News seems to have more a MBA/VC bent than "hacker"... ...all of the interesting software design/programming articles seem to be lifted from programming.reddit.com. Discussions on languages, architecture, UI, etc....