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   by xd 14y ago

   From my own experience, developers, particularly inexperienced developers, when learning something new have an insatiable need to implement their new found knowledge .. no matter if it's a good fit or not for the problem at hand (myself inc
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   Attempting to make X-rays by unrolling Scotch tape [video](youtube.com)

   1 points by xd 14y ago|0 comments
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   by xd 14y ago

   I use references for passing around large arrays of data for instance, rather than having copies made all over the place (class instances are passed by reference no matter what you do).
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   by xd 14y ago

   I was thinking more of: #include <stdio.h> int main() { int arr[10] = {1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0}, *ptr; for(int i = 10; i>=0; i--) { ptr = &arr[i]; print
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   by xd 14y ago

   Parametized queries are just another way of filtering input ..
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   by xd 14y ago

   SQL injection attacks alone are almost always a result of not filtering input...
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   by xd 14y ago

   How is that a "bullshit PHP rule"? If you for loop in C, setting a pointer each iteration, you would expect the pointer to still be set the the last assignment in the loop once you're out of it.
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   by xd 14y ago

   Hey, nice work. Wouldn't a wiki platform work better however, instead of git? Edit: also might be worth adding a bit about steering clear of phpclasses.org as well as w3schools, they bother contain far more bad, than good code.
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   by xd 14y ago

   Thanks for your reply. I remember the ordeal on the internals list .. but what does that have to do with maintainability?
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    by xd 14y ago

    soc88, dude, can you stop with your personal anti-PHP agenda. You are bringing NOTHING to the table. > - Why is the documentation in such a bad shape? The documentation is up-to-date AND in good shape. > - Why aren't there any esta
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    by xd 14y ago

    I think I've been miss understood. My point wasn't that PHP is a bad language, I'm a hardened PHP dev and have been fighting it's corner here on HN for months. It really doesn't help PHP that a site as popular as phpclasses has such a larg
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    by xd 14y ago

    I'm getting tired of these posts, but he brings up a good point. You only have to browse code on phpclasses.org (the most popular PHP code contribution site I think?) to see that there is something very very wrong with how PHP code is devel
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    by xd 14y ago

    What happens with your network when the power goes down in your area, do you lose connectivity to the outside world? Also, I just realised that I may have come across as a bit patronising! That wasn't the intention, I was just relating to
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    by xd 14y ago

    Reminds me of a "datacenter" me and some house-mates built in a basement when in uni. We stuck the servers on top of a few pallets so they wouldn't be submerged in water when it rained. The power was fed from the living room above and the
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    by xd 14y ago

    In response your undefined edit: Can you point out my lies?
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    by xd 14y ago

    You are making little to no sense. Sorry, but I've got to give up on this thread.
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    by xd 14y ago

    "well yeah it sucks, but I know it sucks so its ok" Sorry, but I really don't see how you got to that assumption. Can you enlighten me to what you are seeing that I'm not?
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    by xd 14y ago

    And I guess this guy doesn't either: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4177516
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    by xd 14y ago

    You seem to think you have some understanding of PHP which you blatantly do not. You've made a nonsense assumption based on the choice of tag used by PHP to tell the interpretor to treat the text following the tag as code and not to direct
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    by xd 14y ago

    "PHP's most ardent advocates have little hands-on experience..." And from what I've been seeing, PHP's most ardent critics have little hands-on experience with PHP, itself. Edit: see this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4198900 curre
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    by xd 14y ago

    What does that have to do with SGML?
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    by xd 14y ago

    "Yes, the daemon. The actual interpreter is still thrown away every few requests, because it is leaking memory like hell." I'm talking about the CLI SAPI, NOT the Apache SAPI.
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    by xd 14y ago

    Hah! Yeah, sorry I should have worded that better. They have been restarted as servers have been upgraded / restarted.
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    by xd 14y ago

    Erm, no it is not.
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    by xd 14y ago

    You've heard of PHP SAPIs right? You can most defiantly use PHP outside of a "web environment". I have PHP daemons managing the sending of email and sms, and another used to manage incoming data that is fed into our local database. These
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    by xd 14y ago

    So why did you comment in the first place, in what world do you find it expectable to berate something with no working knowledge? Also I have no trouble developing PHP code that halts on the first sniff of an error. But yes, with no experi
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    by xd 14y ago

    I saw something recently, a skeleton laptop that would act as a terminal for your android phone. My money is on the mobile phone being a mobile personal cpu/storage that can be tethered to skeleton interfaces like tablets and laptops. But
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    by xd 14y ago

    It's a shame you are suffering from what I can only assume are poor PHP code bases. This is unfortunately very common with PHP because of it's popularity. I've dealt with my fair share of poor PHP code bases, and have experienced PHP matur
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    by xd 14y ago

    The UK funds the health care system with what is know as National Insurance contributions that comes out of your pay packet; which also covers a basic state pension. Companies will also pay what are known as on costs to top up the NI contr
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    by xd 14y ago

    I think it would be a case of insane developer, to do that ;)