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by ralfn 14y ago
>It's interesting that I asked a simple technical question, and rather than just answering it, Your question was: Why is this bad? (referring to frankenarrays of PHP) The summary of my answer was: 1. you can't easily tell the algorithmi
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by ralfn 14y ago
>Where I disagree with you is in your assessment that a) there aren't many skilled programmers who use PHP, and c) language features of PHP make it very difficult or impossible to write well-designed software. a) didn't make that asseme
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Which ecosystems actually get the love, impacts us all. That's why people are always so invested when it comes to topics like this: they are literally, financially, emotionally, technically invested in their choice. And if some other soluti
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by ralfn 14y ago
>> But people are abusing PHP to write large scale libraries and frameworks. Many riddled with security issues, and unpredictable performance bottlenecks, because the language wasn't designed to actually allow you to write well defi
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by ralfn 14y ago
I think it's just a matter of where you are on the curve. Basing a new project on Node.JS may be premature and not a wise choice. You may be too much ahead of the curve, and up to the point where more traditional tools provide a much more p
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by ralfn 14y ago
Well, answer me this: Whats the order of complexity of adding an element in the middle of "an array" in PHP? So, it's bad, because it makes it very confusing, what the exact implementation is. If you can't tell how much slower your algorith
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by ralfn 14y ago
>No replies to ad hominem attacks. I'm sorry, you are right. That was uncalled for. >From when was that any criteria for success? Worse is better won a long back. Fighting that has proven to be futile. No, it hasn't. Pragmatism won
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>>Nobody with the actual skillset to design and implement a programming language would consider, for example, merging vectors and dictionaries into some kind of mutated frankenarray. >Actually, JavaScript and Lua have merged vec
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by ralfn 14y ago
And they are going to offer virtual linux servers, which you can customize all you want. This is great, because Amazon could use some competition, and tying everything to .NET did not make Azure a relevant competitor for many domains. Let's
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In OS-X scroll up and scroll down have been switched, to more closely mimmick touch controls on an ipad/iphone. So, the wording is wrong .. you need to scroll down. But don't bother, there's not any meaningfull content there. Just a bunch o
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by ralfn 14y ago
As a community, as an industry, as an ecosystem, trying to move forward and leaving past mistakes is a good thing. Our doctors no longer use voodoo dolls. They've moved on. And nobody with any relevant educational background would promote m
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@jtreminio I did not claim one cannot run succesfull projects in PHP. I stated the exact opposite. And im doing that again now, in the hope your reading is just suddenly improved. PHP has a legacy. It started off as a template language, and
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>> I have yet to see a serious programming shop that would bet its billion dollar business on frameworks built by others. Even the majority of PHP development uses frameworks these days. You didnt answer the questions at all. Nor di
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Not all quality aspects of language design are subjective. Even its authors fully emphasize that this is not how they would intenionally design a language, but PHP just kind of grew from a template system and very practical requirements. Th
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by ralfn 14y ago
Miro promotes and supports torrent based (video) podcasts. http://getmiro.com
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by ralfn 14y ago
Im on both Reddit and HN. Those comments are not jabs, but just reminders, that the intent, purpose and scope of the sites is different. HN is about on topic knowledge sharing, and well formulated opinions. Reddit is more a social interacti
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by ralfn 14y ago
Dutch cards all have a chip on them, which encrypts the transaction. In other words, the machiene doesnt have to be secure, since it never gets access to the private key inside the chip inside the card. They can still screw around with that
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by ralfn 14y ago
In holland the hardware still supports swipe, but the store's bank will not. Only hotels are, for now, exempt. The skimming just got out of hand.
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Yes, southern europe generally supports and even uses credit cards. Holland has banned swipe all together. You need an authentification chip and a pin. In our defense: we had to, because the skimming by eastern european criminal organisatio
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by ralfn 14y ago
In Holland the policy is now to only allow pin based transactions using the chip. The magnectic stripe is no longer supported. So, although most hardware is still technically capable to swipe, no bank is supporting it any more. It was in re
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by ralfn 14y ago
Despite what you may think, the war crimes during ww2 were not the result of a culture unique to Germany. For example, in my country, Holland, relatively more jews were killed, because the dutch people gave them less shelter than the german
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Unity does not support linux. So how is it even relevant for Double Fine given their stated requirements? Or any other game dev given the possible future of linux based steamboxes?