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by soulclap 13y ago
What's with all the negativity on HN lately? Not getting the hate really. The site looks good and the UI makes it feel like a game - fun to use and there's not really a lot to 'figure out', come on. Useful or not and (design) educational va
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by soulclap 13y ago
True, that's another good point. Talking of plugins for other music formats, the Oldsk00l MOD Player Plugin for Winamp provides much more accurate playback of Amiga MOD files than the built-in Winamp MOD player. Absolutely recommended and e
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by soulclap 13y ago
I guess I am the only person in the world still using Winamp. Just feels odd when I listen to mp3s and can't look up the ID3 tags with alt-3. And I never felt the need for a 'library', 'database' or huge spaceship cockpit UIs either.
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by soulclap 13y ago
Is your fork public or are there any screens, etc. available? Sounds good.
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by soulclap 14y ago
Great find! The dummy patient thing is quite creepy. I am kind of waiting for the jump scare all the time.
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by soulclap 14y ago
I almost caused a mailout like this as well when I just kept adding recipients in a loop without ever clearing the recipient list again. (Using SwiftMailer, that is.) A 'fake' SMTP server that just saved the e-mails to the file system as pl
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by soulclap 14y ago
What are the 'original' libraries/components then?
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by soulclap 14y ago
Sweet, haven't seen this site before! For more nostalgia, a large collection of cracktro remakes in Flash can be found here: http://flashtro.com/
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by soulclap 14y ago
Easily? I remember having quite some difficulties getting gems with binaries to work on Windows (meaning: lots of wrestling before I even got the MySql driver working). Might be different now though but I have never experienced anything lik
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by soulclap 14y ago
Not getting the problem either, working with PHP namespaces daily.
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by soulclap 14y ago
Not sure if any of those are included here but I have definitely seen links to 'warez' hosted as gists recently.
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by soulclap 14y ago
Sounds like this might make it harder for companies to actually find websites posting 'stolen' content. Just saying.
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by soulclap 14y ago
I am currently working on something similar, not related to books though. Thanks for the inspiration provided by your site and the comments on here, HN is once again very helpful.
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by soulclap 14y ago
I saw a couple of tweets today by Chrome users who were wondering where the 'new tweet' input form field went. So not sure if this problem is limited to Opera. (I am using Chrome as well and didn't have any problems but still.)
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by soulclap 14y ago
Maybe I am missing something but never seen that in practice (the 'foo(1, $c=20)' bit), that's a really odd way to initialize a variable. Wouldn't mind if they change it, so that it breaks (with a warning or error). Or have you seen this sy
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by soulclap 14y ago
I didn't mean to say it is better than all other dependency managers and basically didn't want to argue at all. My point is just that I am happy that Composer is around now, as it lets me include all dependencies from various sources in a c
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by soulclap 14y ago
While Composer introduced a new package format, it can be used to retrieve PEAR packages, 'plain' zip files and even git, svn and hg repositories - and these can be integrated even if they don't contain a composer.json file, needing just a
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Inside the Project to Immortalize John Peel's Record Collection(evolver.fm)
2 points by soulclap 14y ago|0 comments
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by soulclap 14y ago
I think it's all about getting to know the tool (ORM) you work with. Look at the generated queries and their performance, use eager/lazy loading in the right places and mainly take care of the database operations that run most often. Switch
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by soulclap 14y ago
Bad code style will eventually get you in trouble in any language or environment, bugs can occasionally turn into features and updates will always require testing, this is not a PHP specific problem at all.
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by soulclap 14y ago
Related article about the same bug report: "When does a bug turn into a feature?" http://lwn.net/Articles/369505/
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by soulclap 14y ago
I agree this would be ideal. Will definitely keep this in mind when writing documentation (and code) for my own tiny open source projects. All the double and triple checking just adds so much bloat most of the time...
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by soulclap 14y ago
Well, exactly. It doesn't say what happens, so pass floats or expect the unexpected. I get your point but I don't think I have ever seen documentation anywhere that covers all of the possible 'abuse' scenarios.
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by soulclap 14y ago
I understand that the bug reporter is in a bad situation but this is definitely an edge case and passing an empty or whatever non-numeric string to a function that is clearly meant for formatting numbers doesn't really seem like good style.
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by soulclap 14y ago
Maybe there are other guidelines (Security related, no maintenance for the old release) that were 'forcing' them to update.
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by soulclap 14y ago
I see 'Svmbolset (heart)s vou' here on Chrome beta. (Lower parts of 'y', 'p' etc. cut off.)
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by soulclap 14y ago
I am hoping that Bootstrap will become a standard base for most themes as well. Just makes sense.
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by soulclap 14y ago
Good to finally see a nice theme on top of Bootstrap that actually changes things to make it look individual, as expected from a quality site, while keeping the good parts that you initially picked Bootstrap for. Thumbs up for the theme and
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by soulclap 14y ago
You are right, I just meant to say that the 'awareness' has increased a lot since Last.fm first stepped on the scene. Unless you were already security-savvy and had a hacker (as in the original sense of the word) background, I guess no one
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by soulclap 14y ago
thanks for the insight, much appreciated. never really thought about how to do this before. (screams for a 'website security patterns' book.)

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