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by tomlin 16y ago
As far as PHP frameworks go, I've been using Yii when I do a PHP project and have found it simple and clean and Yii's documentation is pretty superb.
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by tomlin 16y ago
Or invisible until you up/down vote.
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Ask HN: Any programmers with ADD? Share your experiences.
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by tomlin 16y ago
This is a good point to bring up. I agree in theory that managers are useful in gate-keeping roles. The trouble is that very few managers actually possess the power to be gate-keepers. Investors, clients threatening to leave and other
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by tomlin 16y ago
I would say in high-output environments that a PM is a good thing, if the PM in question is good at being a PM. I've met a few, but many more terrible PMs unfortunately. Oftentimes PMs (or better , their organization culture + workflow) ha
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by tomlin 16y ago
What Jason Fried is expressing is something I've been pondering for a while. And I think we'll (hopefully) see more of it (sorry, manager-types). In my experience, managers in most departments have essentially taken the role of sheep-herder
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by tomlin 16y ago
I like it. A little off topic, but the Google Chrome Extensions that override CSS get my brain thinking about something like this on a different scale. For instance, could someone build complete Facebook or Twitter face-lifts? If it's possi
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by tomlin 16y ago
There needs to be a Bookmarklet for this, whereby I could click it and every div on the currently viewed site would rumble until the browser crashed. EDIT: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4912110/jrumble-it.html
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by tomlin 16y ago
Personally, I have a hard time understanding why IQ is held at such high esteem. It certainly is relevant as it provides a baseline idea of ones intelligence. But when a cup of coffee or a bad sleep can warp a metric like IQ, I have to wond
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by tomlin 16y ago
The product I just described doesn't exist, and Weebly is better already? I used the word Dreamweaver , but also mentioned that it would probably be a bad name for it for obvious reasons. What Weebly wouldn't have is tight Photoshop to Dr
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by tomlin 16y ago
Impressive. Now they just need to make a non-crappy, standards-based, express version of Dreamweaver (calling it something else might help) for iPad, add integration with Dropbox and/or WordPress and Adobe's got a game changer. Mom / small
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by tomlin 16y ago
The argument against Apple, iPad, iPhone regarding openness is more about freedom than it is about usability . So when you banter about it being more open one would assume you're charging back at the notion that it is not. In other w
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by tomlin 16y ago
I feel like I'm watching what would be R&D for the movie Batteries Not Included if it were being made now. All joking aside, I love these things. Logistically, is there any hope of a solar panel attachment to keep them alive longer?
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by tomlin 16y ago
Observation is available to anyone at any age. A person who is outside of the tech bubble may also look at the market from a psychological point of view rather than a pragmatic one.
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by tomlin 16y ago
I upvoted because I dig the psychological aspect of the article -- The teenage market is where I like to turn for a prediction of where the general market will be in a few years. Because while teens aren’t nerdy, they tend to be early adop
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by tomlin 16y ago
"Here, see, more proof of why you should drop out of high school!" I actually love these stories for a different reason. If your interests are specific, you find most classes boring, repetitive, unhelpful and you have passion for your int
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by tomlin 16y ago
At the risk of sounding ignorant, I ponder correlation or a relationship, but furthermore whether the relationship has something to do with intelligence . In my observation, intelligent people breed less. Intelligent people are also less
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by tomlin 16y ago
I can respect the opinion that the costs might not be a tipping point factor for the ISPs. Of course, many services are value-added and provide no real profit. The idea is that they are providing something revolutionary through their consum
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by tomlin 16y ago
In all honesty, this is probably fairly rare. I'd imagine about as rare as a cooking oven burning out, running out of a specific ingredient, or having your head cook call in sick. Making the system more reliable never hurts, though. A "rock
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by tomlin 16y ago
Unfortunately, more often than not, this mentality is taken advantage of. To the pressured manager, Vlad provides an easy-out. It also sets a bad tone for the relationship between employer and employee. It's also a negotiation uphill battle
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by tomlin 16y ago
Agreed. Not sure why, but there is this notion that when an industry is created it is immortal - not only that, but also always increasing in profit, margin, market. Strange, really, since by now we should all understand that the very fabri
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by tomlin 16y ago
Microsoft has been pushing people off of XP for ages, but many people hold the misapprehension that XP is 'good enough' in some sense It's true in some sense. Vista really made Windows users question further upgrades. I personally couldn'
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by tomlin 16y ago
Except worse looking. Not sure what they were thinking with the tabs. For higher contrast, or those with colour deficiency it is hard to see which tab is selected. I noticed this in the beta, but had hoped it would be ironed out before the
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by tomlin 16y ago
While I don't entirely agree with the article, I do think that the future of manufacturing is more automated, and because of that we may see refined products for specific tasks. Perhaps you could say there is a bit of 37signals mentality in
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by tomlin 16y ago
No. There is a difference between debate and suppression . I'm fine with highlighting WebM's faults - but not creating them out of thin air for what appears to be nothing more than a red herring, to vilify WebM with intentions that G
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by tomlin 16y ago
They want other people to stake their money on testing this claim. This is why I believe these rants about WebM are agenda-driven. Who says Google wants people to front the responsibility? This is your claim. I don't think Google bought
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by tomlin 16y ago
Curious, does the iPad packaging or advertising point this out? If the iPad is supposed to be a post-PC device designed for mom, pa, grandpa and geek alike, then it, IMO, shouldn't need to be connected to a computer for any reason. The fact
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by tomlin 16y ago
One of the main tenets of reasoning for Flash being a proprietary blackbox is because of its all-encompassing safety net for video, other codecs. No one wanted to hear about that, because at the end of the day people were concerned with t
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WebM - free license, no guarantees of indemnification H.264 - paid license, no guarantees of indemnification Any argument that circumvents the above fact is agenda-driven . People know that WebM is the better choice; but are instead trying
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Remember that just the idea of a plugin, ActiveX object or layer that communicates with one tech to another is a patent infringement - and yet we are now coming to a point where the open web is embraced over the patent-encumbered. Apple's

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