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by wanderr 16y ago
Plus another what, $13k, for self-employment taxes?
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by wanderr 16y ago
How much of this is skewed by every web product likely having its own copy of a large framework/library such as jQuery?
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by wanderr 16y ago
This is fixed.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Update: people are offering suggestions of how to work around the problems I brought up. My point isn't that the problems are insurmountable, only that it adds (often unnecessary) complexity and opportunities for inconsistency to the system
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by wanderr 16y ago
There's a solution for when data doesn't fit in memory on one box called sharding. Anyway, not trying to make the case that one round trip is worse, but certainly hundreds or thousands can be.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Thought experiment: imagine you are going to port Bugzilla to a noSQL solution. How would you do it? There are some pretty obvious relationships between bugs, authors, commenters and comments. Imagine a bug that has 100 comments from as man
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by wanderr 16y ago
It's getting cnverted too, but noy until we can port the API that allows global keyboard shprtcut helpers.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Our copy writers don't always get the why's exactly correct for this stuff, so I apologize for them for making it seem like Opera isn't modern. In reality, our current temporary lack of support for Opera is entirely Internet Explorer's faul
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by wanderr 16y ago
Gender is a more complicated issue than the question of whether or not the user has a penis. For marketing purposes it might make sense to narrow down the selections to Male, Female and Other, but if the point is to allow users to express t
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by wanderr 16y ago
PHP's behavior is configurable, it can be soft on errors or hard on errors. Unfortunately many lazy developers choose the former.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Bluesnowmonkey already gave you some specific solutions but I wanted to point out that error suppression is generally a really bad idea. If your code encounters an error you should want to know about it.
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by wanderr 16y ago
lolz, if anything "lol" is gaining traction among the internet generation. I work with a bunch of geeks my age or younger, and several of them actually say "lol" irl when they think something is funny, usually accompanied by actual laughter
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by wanderr 16y ago
I grew up in a state that makes heavy use of roundabouts, but they call them rotaries. In general they worked wonderfully for traffic control although I did see the end results of a horrific accident when someone managed to go the wrong way
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by wanderr 16y ago
Not working for private repos?
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by wanderr 16y ago
I measure stability by how well something works, not by how many releases it has had. MySQL replication is getting better, but it does still have major problems. Sure, it's good enough to power huge sites (we use it here as well), but it's
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by wanderr 16y ago
Do you have any experience with MySQL replication? I do, and mine aligns with what moe is describing. Nice in theory isn't worth much if it's crappy in reality.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Works terribly on my droid. As I scroll that bar that is meant to sit at the bottom of the page is right in the middle, obscuring the text in the book.
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by wanderr 16y ago
For us, every user who visits the site is a customer, since we make money from ads.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Yeah I consider graceful failback to be supporting IE6. I'm talking about the sites that just don't work at all in IE6.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Took a closer look at the numbers. In general our traffic goes down by about 20% on the weekend. For IE6 it goes down by 63% on the weekend. For IE as a whole it goes down by 30% on the weekend.
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by wanderr 16y ago
It is, but slowly. Are you willing to turn away 5% of your customers?
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by wanderr 16y ago
I'm not at liberty to share our GA data right now, but we see it for IE 6 especially. IE 6 is about 5% of our total traffic and it looks like the vast majority are people at work.
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by wanderr 16y ago
This is why no sane commercial site can drop support for IE6. The people left using it largely have no choice.
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by wanderr 16y ago
Bytes add up over time. I don't know anything about this feature in particular, there may in fact be a great reason for including it in the core but I do agree that in principle, anything not core should be in a different module. Nice to ha
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by wanderr 16y ago
It's easier for the computer too. Parsing and outputting json involves much less overheard than doing the same in XML.
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by wanderr 16y ago
This simultaneously sounds like a fun idea, but I can't imagine any project owners/maintainers being too happy about this being applied to /their/ project.
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by wanderr 16y ago
MySQL/InnoDB defaults to REPEATABLE READ, I believe. We started running into locking/concurrency issues in this mode a long time ago and found that for our uses, 99.9% of the time READ COMMITTED would work just fine. We now use READ COMMITT
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by wanderr 16y ago
Our servers run CentOS. None of our developers would dream of running that as a desktop OS. Some just use Ubuntu and call that good, but I like to have my testing environment as identical to production as possible, so I took an ancient lapt
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by wanderr 16y ago
I keep all my code locally and have my testing machine (in my case an old laptop but should work the same with VM) map to that dir, so the server is alwas running the code that I am working on, no syncronization step slowing me down. :)
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by wanderr 16y ago
If you're targeting a server it can absolutely make sense to run a different OS than your target platform on your /desktop/ computer.

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