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by soulclap 16y ago
Good read. And a good reminder that you shouldn't (or can't) rely on documentation or a single request here and there when you decide to work with an API. And that the amount of support and 'release cycles' (frequency of updates and fixes)
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by soulclap 16y ago
So what if it is missing on the first call? How many calls until you get the complete picture? And which of those results is 'the truth' and reflects the current status?
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by soulclap 16y ago
It's almost a naive thing to say and I probably wouldn't ever do it myself either (and perfectly understand everyone's reasons not to) but somehow it's awkward that no one said "come on guys, join forces". No criticism towards the respectiv
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by soulclap 16y ago
Maybe it's just me but I think it'd be great to see where the company is based (the country) in the initial list. At least that'd be handy if you get more job offers. As I am in Europe, I'd prefer jobs where I can call someone up during Eur
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by soulclap 16y ago
More 'coolness' from Microsoft. While I never 'hated' them, this is really feeling odd. Hope they'll stay that way and can make Windows Phone attractive as well. Hell, if they keep on like this, maybe even Windows will be 'cool' one day. So
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by soulclap 16y ago
Great, thanks!
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by soulclap 16y ago
Sorry, but this is just: lame.
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by soulclap 16y ago
Damn, I am really curious about the contents of these 'vintage' game books now.
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by soulclap 16y ago
I started with Basic on a C-64 when I was a kid, mainly using the official manual if I remember right. When I went on to the Amiga, I didn't code anything for a few years and eventually wrote some extensions for bulletin board systems such
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by soulclap 16y ago
Sure. When you look at a 'proper magazine' there is a lot more work regarding to the layouts, additional info graphics and such. And I guess the iPad app versions of current magazines have got all these plus animated graphics, timelines, be
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by soulclap 16y ago
OoTheNigerian: what's your real name? That aside: Wow. I thought this would link to an article that might have a flaw or two or was not 'acceptable' from some cutting edge geek snob POV. (Sorry for expecting something along these lines on H
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by soulclap 16y ago
I think your best chance is to build a community (or 'network') that is focused on a certain niche or group of people though. And I guess the whole 'scaling' aspect can be quite 'scary' when you look at sites with millions of members such a
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by soulclap 16y ago
The problem is that people who should know what they're talking about have said things like 'the tablet will eventually replace other computer set-ups' a lot when tablets first came up. And I don't think it's a problem of 'adapting' if yo
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by soulclap 16y ago
I don't own a tablet, saw one in action for the first time a week ago and the owner and I basically came up with the same reasons why it's rather useless as the ones mentioned in the article. It's definitely nice to have for reading in bed
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by soulclap 16y ago
I haven't had a serious look around the PEAR libraries in ages, mainly because I don't want to have classes like their own 'Error' class around in my code at all. Regarding distribution I was hoping that .phar files would become the new sta
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by soulclap 16y ago
You can definitely use PHP without frameworks. What really sucks about PHP though is that most of the quality code lives inside frameworks. While it's rather easy to include parts of Zend Framework in your own code/other frameworks (it almo
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by soulclap 16y ago
PHP's docs suck? Seriously? I think the php.net docs outshines the available official documentation for all other languages I've worked with, especially because of the user comments on all the functions. Sure, some of them are outdated but
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by soulclap 16y ago
Yii is indeed very powerful, especially if you take advantage of the 'magic' and generators for form output and handling. I've only spent a few days with it though as that particular project fell through. Not sure if I'll ever go back to it
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by soulclap 16y ago
At least the kids can't buy anything involving naked girls on the app store. Not sure if daddy is still a fan of this 'feature' late at night though.
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by soulclap 16y ago
One of my previous jobs was coding software for banks that handles financial transactions. And I am not entirely sure any more if it was Feb 30th or 31st but one day the product manager came to my office and asked me to change the validatio
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by soulclap 16y ago
You are talking about naming conventions, that's something completely different. GMail does not enforce any 'firstname.lastname' patterns.
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by soulclap 16y ago
Your view of this whole subject seems to be completely upside down. There's no such thing as a 100% guarantee when it comes to email (Interwebs 101) but it should be completely obvious to any sane person that you are getting much closer to
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by soulclap 16y ago
I am not sure whether relying on 'hope' is a good approach.
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by soulclap 16y ago
You probably got me wrong. In a perfect world, it would work just as specified in the RFC, everywhere and I am all for that. But obviously that's not the case. And I am not encouraging people to be lazy and sloppy, I am just saying consider
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by soulclap 16y ago
Well, just go ahead and try signing up at facebook with {^|~!}@gmail.com then.
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by soulclap 16y ago
Exactly. You have no way of knowing what all the code along the way between the mail-sending application and your inbox does, that was my whole point.
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by soulclap 16y ago
While I agree that some kinds of validation are 'too eager' and annoying, just use a 'legit' e-mail address, ffs. By including super-special characters and whatever extra features GMail or whoever provides, you're just asking for it, sorry.
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by soulclap 16y ago
as a (currently 'idle') tastemaker/music blogger, this seems like a sweet job opportunity to me. shazam, holla! that aside this is a real interesting article, i always wondered how they are getting ahold of all the music and was really stun
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by soulclap 16y ago
'collaborative decompilation space' (github-based or not) sounds like a sick idea, actually.
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by soulclap 16y ago
'Search still sucks' seems like quite an exaggeration when the average user (whoever that is) isn't even noticing any 'decline'. I usually always find what I am looking for when using Google and haven't noticed any major changes recently wh

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