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by raamdev 18y ago
HTTP pipelining support was added in curl and libcurl 7.16.0: http://freshmeat.net/projects/curl/?branch_id=1612&relea... So it should work with PHP as well.
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by raamdev 18y ago
I would really love to have an iPhone app that allows me to read and comment on HN (as opposed to just browsing with Safari). Something similar to the SFNetNews app for reading Slashdot, etc. I was thinking of writing one for HN since I hav
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by raamdev 18y ago
> I've gone through more change in the last 2-3 years than most of my life (I'm now 21). I would not even understand who I was 2 years ago, let alone last year. I've noticed this as well and I think it might be a good indicator of how "
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by raamdev 18y ago
If anything, programming helps us think abstractly -- definitely a good exercise for the the human brain.
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by raamdev 18y ago
I run a little web hosting business myself and from what I know about the industry most hosts should offer both at this point (with PHP5 as the default). If PHP4 is the default on your host, you can try adding this to an .htaccess file in t
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by raamdev 18y ago
I'm really looking forward to Recess! I've been in the need of a PHP REST Framework for a small project and Recess seems to be the closest thing to what I need. All the other Frameworks seemed to have REST functionality "hacked" in, instead
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by raamdev 18y ago
I think a lot of being "set in our ways" has to do with not accepting that we might be wrong about something, or that we might not fully understand something. As we age, we like to believe we know things and feel certain of the way things a
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by raamdev 18y ago
LOL, that's awesome! A few years ago I had a similar idea and registered googlefor.info, but like so many of my "site ideas", time got the best of it. Now I just need to remember to letmegooglethatforyou.com'ify every question someone asks
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by raamdev 18y ago
That's awesome! Thanks! I've got to find more articles like that one.
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Or perhaps humans are lazy by nature and, since PHP does a very bad job of keeping us in line, the less disciplined of us end up writing bad PHP code. Of course, if we don't know how to write good code to start with, it's not PHP's fault. I
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by raamdev 18y ago
FTA: "The researchers noted that previous experiments with flies found that bacterial infection threw off the insects' circadian rhythm, and not having this internal clock working properly made them highly susceptible to infection." I wonde
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by raamdev 18y ago
It wasn't the temperature, it was the combination of 4 inches of rain on Friday + just-below-freezing temperatures and wind. That combination caused crap-loads of ice to form on trees, wires, and even telephone poles (some poles fell over f
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by raamdev 18y ago
I started programming when I was 12 and sadly my path to PHP looked something like this: QBasic -> Visual Basic -> HTML/CSS -> PHP With what I know now (various bits of Java, C, bash, Python, OOP, etc), I wish so much tha
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by raamdev 18y ago
One of the coolest things about Twitter is how it allows you to see, in almost real-time, what huge groups of people are talking about. You can see a map with where people are posting on Twitter from: http://twittervision.com/ You can see
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by raamdev 18y ago
I use LiquidWeb ( http://liquidweb.com ) for managed servers, although they also offer colocation. Their datacenter is entirely self-owned and their technical support is outstanding. They always have very helpful, very knowledgeable technic
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by raamdev 18y ago
I was home-schooled my entire life. I wrote everything on the computer; notes, todo's, letters, essays, everything . My dad is a writer and he would give me essays and books to grammar-check for him when I was young, so my English grammar
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by raamdev 18y ago
My co-worker wrote about the genius of the Obama campaign logo earlier this year: http://www.herecomesthescience.com/2008/02/06/the-genius-of-... He shows the other campaign logos for comparison and it's pretty amazing how similar the oth
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by raamdev 18y ago
I'm relatively new here, so thanks for the tip! I consider myself very science-oriented and I dislike religion. I didn't even realize my comment might be viewed as going "against the naturalistic worldview", but now I know better. :)
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by raamdev 18y ago
None taken. My dad is a writer by profession (he was a technical writer while I was young, and that lead me to computers and programming). He is by no means scientific in anything he says or does and he always taught me and my siblings to
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For the past 26 years my dad has told me it has. He says this big bang is just one of many big bangs and that big bangs have been going on for an infinite amount of time (forever). He also told me about particles smaller than atoms before q
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I've found when doing mass mailings the best solution is to use a service whose sole job is to insure your email gets delivered. I haven't used many such services, but Constant Contact (constantcontact.com) comes to mind. They provide thing
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by raamdev 18y ago
* plants bomb and runs to the vi side
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I've also read David Allen's book -- excellent stuff. So far I've found his method of using a Someday/Maybe list to be extremely freeing (though I must admit that the list is growing ridiculously long). I've pretty much got the "get everyth
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Or perhaps putting it in words makes you feel confident enough about the conceptualization to proceed with action. I often find myself doing far too much "planning" and "checking for possible errors/pitfalls" before taking action on somethi
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I think is is a perfect example to explain how our brain stores memories and information (images, ideas, concepts, new things, etc). I'm not bilingual (I only speak English) but from reading everyone's comments on this page a clear pattern
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by raamdev 18y ago
As someone who started learning C a few months ago, it was comforting to hear a 20+ year veteran programmer say that coding in C made him "feel like a real programmer again".
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I recently moved from Arlington ($1200 a month for a huge two-bedroom, off-street parking, back yard, etc.) to a place in NH for $300 a month. In Arlington, I was 15 min walk from Alewife and then 10 min subway ride to my office in Central
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by raamdev 18y ago
Perfect timing! I'm taking a C programming class and this short tutorial on Make is exactly what I needed. Thanks!