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Show HN: The World, Your Stage (MVP Launch)(theworldyourstage.com)
4 points by samuellevy 14y ago|7 comments
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R18+ video game rating passes Australian Senate(abc.net.au)
2 points by samuellevy 14y ago|1 comments
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Designing for the modern web(blog.samuellevy.com)
3 points by samuellevy 14y ago|0 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Many people seem to think that clean PHP code is an oxymoron, but it's not; it's just that PHP doesn't penalise you for not writing clean code. There are a few things in the object model (and other areas) which are inconsistent, or not fu
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Why PHP?(blog.samuellevy.com)
3 points by samuellevy 14y ago|2 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Knowing what it's like to work in a very small/close-knit company, simple notes/memos tend to come off as very passive-aggressive, and cause discord.
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Ghost Chillies (or any other sufficiently "burn-off-your-mouth" chillies) are the answer. It's not high tech, but you're guaranteed to find the lunch thief (they're the one rolling on the floor), warn them off taking food from the fridge, a
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Dealing with "Big Idea" people(blog.samuellevy.com)
3 points by samuellevy 14y ago|0 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
As another commenter mentioned - it's somewhat of a selection bias; Linus doesn't go around spouting hate-speech, but when he has jack of someone pestering him with an idea/patch/whatever that he has (many times, repeatedly) turned down, th
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by samuellevy 14y ago
And that's frequently how it is. There's a fascination that people seem to have with _proving_ that Linus (or RMS, or Jeff Atwood, or others) are jerks. In almost every instance I've seen, it really is a case that someone has been pestering
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On software communities, "Rock star" programmers, and... Linus(blog.samuellevy.com)
59 points by samuellevy 14y ago|63 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Samsung at least seems to have far too much invested in Android now to consider dropping it (hell, they're making the best-selling android phones on the market). This isn't a surprise for anyone, though. They have been working towards this
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BlogFile: 2 weeks old, and going strong(blog.samuellevy.com)
5 points by samuellevy 14y ago|0 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Hey, at least I'm not using GOTOs. In due course, I'll probably re-write large parts of it, and make it more... "clean", but this really was a quick project hacked out in my spare time over a couple of weeks.
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Sorry, the "bloat" and the "single file" were different goals. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. That being said, the fact that it was in a single file meant that I was more concious of the size, and contributed to me cutting out my own bloat
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Yeah, that's pretty fair. It's little more than protection against automated scripts which scrape the net looking for easy ways in (as is my comment spam protection). There's not a huge amount to be gained by building a super sophisticated
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by samuellevy 14y ago
The CSS isn't actually that large. The entire home page (CSS included) is about 4-5KB. The analytics code from google is three times the size of the rest of my page. What MySQL error did you run in to? You're right that I should probably hi
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Mostly a personal challenge. I was also sick of things being over-bloated. I wanted to see what I could get away with in a single file without things getting too large to manage. It's getting close to unmanageable now, but I think it's stil
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Show HN: BlogFile; ~3000 line, single file PHP blog software(blog.samuellevy.com)
14 points by samuellevy 14y ago|14 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
I've long thought that programming education was extremely lacking, and rather elitist (Really? You need a 2500 page tome to learn the "Basics of Java"?) Now that computers are invading more of our lives, people are starting to find ways pa
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The future of programming(samuellevy.com)
3 points by samuellevy 14y ago|2 comments
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by samuellevy 14y ago
Is your problem that you can't find people at all, or that the people you find are no good? If it's the first, then you may not be advertising in the right places. If it's the second, then you may actually be staring away good candidates wi
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by samuellevy 15y ago
Now that's a little bit of brilliant. What would happen if someone happened to drive over it slowly, though (say, when stuck in traffic)? Would the weight of the vehicle be enough for it to maintain it's viscosity, or is it the combination