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by smoody 18y ago
"This change seems to go against the theme of transparency and progress which has taken Obama to the highest office in America." I know I'll get downmodded for this, but, pleeeeaase. Don't you think you're getting a little bit too dramatic?
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by smoody 18y ago
I once worked for a company where we used it to parse source code (COBOL in this case -- a BIG market full of unmaintainable code), let people restructure it graphically, and then the system would regenerate new source code. The generation
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by smoody 18y ago
and only two gig of ram? what does a gig of standard issue dram cost these days? $89 perhaps? :-)
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by smoody 18y ago
"persistent connections for ext/mysqli" That could be a big win for php apps that are coded against mysqli api vs. the PDO api. I can't wait to give it a shot! I also read somewhere that common open source PHP apps (Wordpress et al) running
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by smoody 18y ago
Definitely start with MAMP, in my opinion. As it doesn't build/install anything itself, it keeps your system ultra clean. If you need to move beyond it, just drop it in the trash and you're done. A few hints: - By default, the apache doc di
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by smoody 18y ago
"why would I use PHP for anything more than toy projects?" Clearly PHP can, and is, being used for projects that go well beyond being toy projects. I doubt, for example, that anyone would call Flickr, Facebook, etc. 'toy projects.' "But at
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by smoody 18y ago
in my humble opinion, you should be happy IBM patented it because clearly they're not patent trolls and it prevents/prevented patent trolls from patenting the same idea. in big companies, patents are sort-of like trading cards. they're are
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by smoody 18y ago
Also, PHP runs everywhere. right now. Nothing to install in most cases. That's one of the reasons it is winning the open source code base wars (SugarCRM, Wordpress, Drupal, etc. etc.).
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by smoody 18y ago
Nicely done! Long Live the NYTimes!
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by smoody 18y ago
where is the video of the plane landing in the river?
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by smoody 18y ago
call me paranoid, but twice while using a blackberry to send mail, i had experiences that sort-of freaked me out: 1. i sent an email to a friend with a single obscure-ish word ("pearly") in the subject line. later that day, i received a spa
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by smoody 18y ago
At first glance, it looks really useful. And great job on the documentation. I know from experience taking a passion project and turning it into something other people can easily utilize is a lot of work. Thank you for making the effort and
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by smoody 18y ago
The one thing to keep in mind with 37signals advice: I assume they are building-out and maintaining their own boxes (TaDa List being the one known exception). Could be wrong about this, of course, but not all startups have the luxury to do
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by smoody 18y ago
I did not post this to celebrate another failure (as an entrepreneur, I would never do that). I'm mostly just sad that they're not able to break even and continue. And I wonder why they couldn't drop the print magazine and have their loyal
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JPG Magazine Says Goodbye(jpgmag.com)
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by smoody 18y ago
"hey, we've run out of good ideas. anyone else got some?" ;-)
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by smoody 18y ago
Counter to what most people believe, I see development on Open Source apps and libraries slowing waaaay down in 2009. - Most people are expecting a downturn uptick in open source development because there will be more unemployed engineers,
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by smoody 18y ago
Am I the only one who bought a netbook, realized it was so small that I couldn't fit a complete thought on the screen and had problems trying to type with it, so decided it was of more use to me as a paperweight than a portable computing de
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by smoody 18y ago
A bad assumption here. It could have simply been that his wife didn't want to see her children go to bed hungry or for them to lose the roof over their heads.
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by smoody 18y ago
I was part of a team that created a similar platform years ago. We knew, even before we launched, that it could be an enabler for evil as easily as it could be an enabler for good. Private social nets are as useful to neo-nazis as they are
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by smoody 18y ago
"Option 1 would keep the competition alive, but now you have 2 groups of people trying to do the same thing and being better at different aspects. The community gets confused and communication breaks." The community gets confused? Give us m
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by smoody 18y ago
What any server-side javascript implementation needs to thrive is a set of solid, fast database client libraries (MySQL, etc). That, to me, is why some of the JVM-based alternate language implementations are so interesting -- because the da
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by smoody 18y ago
I would add one (IMHO) obvious omission: Infamous. http://www.suckerpunch.com/detail.php/games/infamous
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by smoody 18y ago
"On December 23rd, we decided to end the duplication and the paradox of choice." Let's be clear about one thing: They didn't eliminate "the paradox of choice," they eliminated "choice." The Paradox of Choice comes into play when there are s
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by smoody 18y ago
Egads. Next thing you know Apple and Microsoft will be merging OS X and Windows 7. After all, they're both trying to accomplish the same thing, right? ;-) I don't use either framework, but this announcement saddens me in part because compet
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by smoody 18y ago
"but questions about the business model remain" -- only in the minds of reporters trying to scare up readers.
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by smoody 18y ago
As an aside, HuffPo does seem to quote so much of source articles that there really is no need to follow the link to the original. And, if you do follow the link, the way they've quoted this particular article -- quoting everything at the b
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by smoody 18y ago
It's also worth looking at the DBSlayer rest-ish interface to MySQL. It was written by and is being used by NYTimes engineers: http://code.nytimes.com/projects/dbslayer
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by smoody 18y ago
"A scan of Twitter reveals a lot more people talking about actually using Match.com than Plentyoffish" There's the biggest flaw in his theory. If you've scanned the people who have profiles on POF (or any other free dating service), you mig
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by smoody 18y ago
I second that. Liberation Mono rocks. And it is updated somewhat frequently, so it might be worth checking for a newer version or to install on a Mac. (they put a dot in the middle of zeros a while back, for instance) https://fedorahosted.

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