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by rickmb 15y ago
It becomes "hate" when the criticism is ill-informed and largely irrelevant. The bits of PHP that are "much worse" are mostly either legacy cruft that nobody in their right mind uses anymore, or bits are rarely touched in day to day program
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by rickmb 15y ago
Been there, done that, and guess what: they really don't want to hear from their constituents. Period. (And this was on a local level in the Netherlands, which I'm pretty confident is considerable more accessible and less corrupt than US Co
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by rickmb 15y ago
And I use PHP in the same way Django and Rails developers do: with frameworks, ORM's and other libraries that do put abstract layers on top of things like the database. PHP fully supports these use cases and everything in between. The sam
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by rickmb 15y ago
There is only one thing that makes "bad code" acceptable, and that is accountability . The article hints at it, the author clearly recognizes it, but it should be emphasized more. Bad code without accountability, without a reason why the q
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by rickmb 15y ago
Let's not pretend this only happens in "big" companies. Any company who's headcount grows to more than five tends to make the same mistakes especially if they're run by inexperienced start-up entrepreneurs.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Boilerplate applications that show now interest whatsoever in who we are as a company will be go straight to /dev/null along with all the other spam. We deliberately write our job postings so that's it's easy to check if an applicant is act
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by rickmb 15y ago
My guess would be they have some cool (hardware) stuff waiting to be released when iPhone 4S sales start to slow down and people start to consider holding out for the next iPhone.
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by rickmb 15y ago
As long as there's no decent form of vocational education, training in-house is a huge investment. You can only properly train one junior for every three to four seniors before it becomes disruptive. Many companies that have already made
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by rickmb 15y ago
The problem with those setups is that although they work great for meetings, they're not suited for casual use. And casual, informal communication is a major factor in teamwork.
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by rickmb 15y ago
> They should be coding all the time Seriously, this may make for great code-monkeys but very limited software developers. There are tons of things you can do to become a better developer that don't involve actual coding. Especially if
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by rickmb 15y ago
This may be a bit out there, but how about paying for email services?
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by rickmb 15y ago
Uhm, yes it does. It may take time, but in most societies, that is what eventually happens. Only corruption and religious or political zealotry slows down the process, but eventually people will realize there's no real crime here, just a de
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by rickmb 15y ago
Or, these "kids" figured out the message is a lie.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Bull. Companies have been hiring tons of inexperienced devs throughout the late '90s and early '00s, and they have been hurt badly by it. Incoherent teams full of junior devs that lacked practical skills and didn't know how to work in a tea
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by rickmb 15y ago
Distributed teams work when the company, its culture and processes are stable and clear. Most software related companies don't get anywhere near that in the first five to ten years. In the mean time, fast growing start-ups look for the engi
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by rickmb 15y ago
The main problem isn't templating engines. And although a better solution is always welcome, a bit of procedural code inside a template is not a big problem either. The real problem is that so many projects and frameworks don't have a power
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by rickmb 15y ago
> They could sell this information to MPAA and RIAA for gold. Maybe in the US, but in many other countries they would be breaking several privacy laws. In fact, even the collecting the initial minimal information (IP's + downloads) alre
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by rickmb 15y ago
We you say "he cares" I presume you mean "cares about slick marketing to clueless clients". Because Epicenter obviously doesn't give a damn about either the truth or software engineering. I'm sorry, but the people who claim the one true met
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by rickmb 15y ago
Name one. Please, this is a serious question. I would truly love to have an Android phone, an Android tablet or a Linux-compatible laptop with the same design and build quality as an Apple product. I've pretty much given up on manufacturers
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by rickmb 15y ago
What I see is an excellent example of how tablets before the iPad did not look anything like the iPad, and those after have clearly been inspired by it. Then again, this kind of design-blindness doesn't surprise me. There are constantly p
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by rickmb 15y ago
Short version: Rose, like so many non-technical founders, had no idea what developers actually do and how to hire and manage them. It's not exactly a unique story, in fact it's not limited to start-ups, it's pretty endemic in the whole IT-b
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by rickmb 15y ago
Paypal is the shadiest of mainstream internet companies. You're better of doing business with organized crime. The whole business of freezing legit accounts and consequently stonewalling the owners, often for months has all the hallmarks
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by rickmb 15y ago
From a personal perspective, besides the many aspects already mentioned by others, there's also the simple lack of challenge. I've already mastered an x-number of technologies in my 25 years as a developer, I'm 100% certain I can deal with
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by rickmb 15y ago
This happens several times a year in many parts of Europe. I'm sure there are other parts of the world with similar stories. WWII isn't ancient history by a long shot.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Looks nice, but it still leaves me with the same feeling as most other tools like this: any co-located team is better off with just whiteboards, cards and sticky notes. Plus most of these tools are geared towards the structured initial deve
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by rickmb 15y ago
You take that attitude to almost any other job, and you'll quickly will be told to leave. The joy of being a professional, well paid developer is in creating the product, not the code. The joy of programming for programming's sake is some
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by rickmb 15y ago
There is a another side to that though: you do actually see a lot of CEO's who made the right call without having "perfect" information making less and less effort to gather any information with every new decision on the mistaken believe
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by rickmb 15y ago
Same in the Netherlands, although currently the government is trying to push through legislation that will change all that. However, the majority of parliament is still against. Hopefully the minority government will think better of forcing
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by rickmb 15y ago
As far as copyright is concerned, it has nothing to do with "reasonable and open to progress". The main differences are: * The powerful copyright-industry mostly resides in the US. European countries that have somewhat of a copyright indust
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by rickmb 15y ago
You need both an extremely smooth running company and extremely motivated, well-organized, disciplined and communicative developers to pull it off. One small problem: the number of developers who think they can handle working remotely in a

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