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by seldo 16y ago
You're the second person to mention that perl doesn't have pointers; references are not strictly speaking pointers but functionally very similar. I think it's pretty obvious those are what I was referring to, and disputing the naming seems
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by seldo 16y ago
PHP's amenability to shared hosting environments is an advantage I failed to mention. I'm pretty much in the same place as you with regards to PHP: I know it like the back of my hand and everything and everybody works with it. But the code
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by seldo 16y ago
Looking back at my own experience as a newbie developer in 1995, the convenience of PHP was absolutely the reason I picked PHP over perl, and having arrays that could also be dictionaries if I changed my mind was a big part of that.
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by seldo 16y ago
A good point. I focus on web development, and the question is entirely about what will replace PHP in the field of web development (not that PHP is extensively used anywhere else).
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by seldo 16y ago
Precisely what I was trying to avoid by being as respectful as I could to both languages. They're great, they just don't do what I want.
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PHP needs to die. What will replace it?(seldo.com)
46 points by seldo 16y ago|93 comments
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by seldo 16y ago
Who does the money belong to?
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by seldo 16y ago
Twitter is a noisy circus of spats and celebrity watching, and its hapless founders still can’t figure out how to make money. Anybody who says this is clearly just trolling, since everyone knows they are making a ton of money selling the
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by seldo 16y ago
You sound burnt-out. I don't think the problem is the field, I think it's you. Take a year off. If you can't afford a year without working, find some other job in a completely different field, even if it pays much less. Let technology stop
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't know about others, but I do so all the time. The application attribution was always of interest to a minority of users. I think it makes a lot of sense to move it to the details pane, to keep the stream simple and give greater promi
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by seldo 16y ago
This is misleading. She says app attribution is "completely removed and hidden in the details section". If it's in the details section, it's hardly completely hidden, is it? It's quite prominently displayed in the details pane: http://www.
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by seldo 16y ago
My co-founder got one of these emails about 12 months ago. Even the opening email sounds pretty scammy, and quick googling shows they send out loads of these, so I shot it down. It must be worth their time if they're still doing it years la
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by seldo 16y ago
More likely that terms that are continuously mentioned in huge numbers (and therefore don't count as "trending") are omitted.
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by seldo 16y ago
A dime per user is nice and all, but they need to make 20x that for a billion dollars in revenue. That's still only $2 per user, but a lot harder.
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't know if witnessing a table full of people go silent when he turns up proves anything, and the rest is all info that would put his source on the stand, not him.
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by seldo 16y ago
This is pretty early but nifty, and might help us in our ongoing efforts to move away from our Ruby prototypes. Needs helpers and halting to be properly useful, but will definitely keep an eye on it.
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by seldo 16y ago
As a non-drinker and non-smoker I can't speak to the fun of those things anywhere, far less at work. Sexual harrassment would be super-entertaining but probably less so for my co-workers. So, I guess it's a ball pit for me.
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by seldo 16y ago
This article tries to say that fake-fun at offices should be banned, but what it actually says is that what modern companies do for fun isn't their idea of fun (their idea of fun seems to involve smoking and drinking and sexually harrassing
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by seldo 16y ago
While much of this is good advice, the "name that says what you do" is tricky. Product names should say what they do, but companies sometimes find it more useful to remain vague. Consider: Yahoo, Google, eBay, Amazon. None of these word
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by seldo 16y ago
EBS is pretty solid in my experience; I've never lost an EBS volume (on the contrary, I seem to have stacks of them lying around from boxes I killed without killing the EBS... need to do some housekeeping...).
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by seldo 16y ago
I don't know if 75+ instances over 18 months is large enough to count as quantitative data, but we've never lost a large instance (they've had temporary failures). All four of the permanent vanishing-acts were smalls.
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by seldo 16y ago
From our point of view, the real value of micro instances is architectural. For tasks where the load is small but important (queue servers, memcache instances, monitoring), where before we might have had one small instance and a potential p
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by seldo 16y ago
To me Bill Gates will always be a modern-day Rockefeller: he clawed and trampled his way to the top, then once he was there he gave away his money -- a lot of it, to be sure -- and will always be remembered for that, rather than the ugly me
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by seldo 16y ago
Yahoo has Yahoo.com, a product that brings in hundreds of millions of users even now. A day or two of placement in the home page is more than enough to launch any product.
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by seldo 16y ago
Ask Yahoo how that worked out for them.
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by seldo 16y ago
I had exactly the same issue with Feedburner's name.
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by seldo 16y ago
Blu-Ray on Windows is the single most user-hostile computing experience I've ever had. I stopped buying/renting blu-ray movies because I didn't feel like rebooting 3 times every time I wanted to play a disc, with the software treating me li
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by seldo 16y ago
Well, I also live in the Mission next to Valencia, where it is ludicrously easy to catch a cab, though I appreciate that it's impossible to catch them in, e.g., Sunset, so I didn't mention it as an advantage. Of course, in London you litera
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by seldo 16y ago
Wow. I guess it's all about what you're used to. I've only ever lived in London (and Trinidad), and my experience was mostly opposite. Remember, this is all relative to London: * SF is super, super cheap. My apartment was the same size for
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by seldo 16y ago
I was hoping Emokit would be like Webkit for sad boys who wear too much eyeliner. Dammit.

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