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"Why is this possible?"

It's not.

Managing real property takes considerable time, expense, and expertise. Things break and need to be fixed. Marketing must be done for vacancies. Most significantly, tenants are risky. Some will destroy your property. Some will be late with the rent. Some will not pay rent at all, requiring eviction--a time-consuming judicial process.

Someone here suggested hiring someone to manage it, so it doesn't take much time. The only problem is that the manager will also soak up most of your returns.

There is nothing easy about making money in real property. Some do it, but it's because they invest significant time and expertise. After that, guess what...the income isn't so "passive" anymore!
I've only read german blogs so far, e.g. https://translate.google.de/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://z...
I love PHP. It feels like a complete toolbox to me, whereas other languages like Python or Ruby feel like I'm buying an entire Home Depot for every project. Sometimes you need the whole store. Most times I don't.

I think the OP has some good points about reconsidering the standard answers that everyone gives to questions when asked. There are no silver bullets in web, but many things sure are treated like them.

Maybe there are projects where PHP isn't right. There are probably tons. But that doesn't mean that it's always wrong. PHP is what got me into making web things in the first place. I loved (and still love) how utilitarian it can be.

But perhaps that's where I differ from most people. I see myself as someone that makes web stuff. Most seem to see themselves as app creators or system builders. And they probably are. Sure, I do that too when the time comes, but if most of the time I'm building a front-end to a CMS, I'm hardly "engineering" anything. I'm mostly just trying to make specific art for other people.

Anyway, I don't understand why PHP would immediately be ruled out from this article. It feels like the JavaScript of the server-side world to me. Use as little or as much as you want. You can do awful things with it, but also wonderful things.
Pretty much, plus mini-cliffhangers at the end of each chapter. And tons of chapters. My novel has around 70, so roughly 5 pages on average. It helps keep the pace, and because of the psychological need to read "just one more chapter", it makes it a "page turner" or "a book you just can't put down".
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Yes, I am curious where this got to be used, that's all.

Hey, i'm totally ok and encourage if this was purely to get some practice.

I was (am) just curious
My very first job after graduating college was working with a PDP-8. At one point we had a hardware failure. We had a maintenance contract, so DEC sent out an engineer. After confirming the fault from the diagnostics I had run, he pulled a circuit board out, unsoldered a transistor, and soldered in a new one.

We also upgraded the hardware while I worked there. We doubled the memory from 4K words (6K bytes) to 8K words. The upgrade cost five thousand dollars.
Lithium-sulfur batteries look like the most possible candidate as the next incremental evolution of the lithium ion batteries.
Lithium metal... not so much.

But I really hope for revolution in this space, rather than incremental changes. This will boost and give wings to so many other inventions.
Meta-moderation was indeed a big part of it, and something I never saw _anywhere_ else.
Erm, I wrote this because someone wrote something on the line of: 'wouldn't it be hilarious if this guy made this because he didn't know about Redis'

I either replied to the wrong comment or it got edited.
Well, I always write a command line (CLI) program first, without worrying at all, about what kind of user interfaces (UI) I may do later on.

Frameworks do it the other way around. They generate a skeleton for a web user interface or a mobile app, and next, the real program gets unidentifiably shoehorned in.

There are so many different ways to call a program function: by the user, by one of your own scripts that does it in batch, by an external program through an API, through a web user interface, by a mobile app, by a desktop app, ...

Isn't the most stupid way of building a program, to shoehorn it into a web user interface? It pretty much guarantees that you will have to implement the same logic many times all over again. That kind of applications can never be consistent.

Furthermore, my CLI programs are trivially easy to containerize properly with tools like docker. How can you do that with a monolithic framework monster?
> It's going to be a whole lot easier for you to lock those two queries down, than securing an entire ORM.

If it's a competent ORM then it shouldn't even expose any way to not use prepared statements, for example.
No worries, it's ok. Summary isn't a book, it's like an article where we are describing what's inside using our own words.
PHP is certainly a unique community, a very pragmatic bunch they are, but that's why we love em'
Relevant, because https://medium.com/@gabrielgambetta/how-i-wrote-my-first-nov...
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"the problem for a professional dev/engineer is that you want the best technical solution instead of releasing some cobbled together rubbish as quickly as possible"

Yes, but have you tried to optimize for code size, clarity and speed of creating features rather than just technical completeness. As a single dev there is an incredible amount of corner cutting you can do which you can polish away once the product gains traction. You can hack stuff together just as long you know how it's supposed to be properly built and how you get there from the rapid prototype.
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Not just a Mac collection as it has a bunch of Apple II's, but sadly no IIgs. That's the computer I first fell in love with. Most kids my age back then were into Playboys. I was lusting after the back cover of some computer magazine that had the IIgs on it. But then a friend told me how much better the Amigas were than any silly old Apple product and I switched allegiances. Those were the days...
I made a Docker container running PowerShell on CentOS7: http://github.com/gbraad/docker-mono Have fun with it...
So, I would consider 1 and 3 a failure. But have you considered raising the price for Optically? $1000 in 2 months equals ~110 units sold at $9. If people go through the trouble to buy/install a plugin, my guess is it's a large enough problem they'd be willing to pay $29 or $49 as well.

I once increased the price of an iPhone app I had built from $2,99 to $4,99 and I lost exactly 0 sales due to that. Revenue just doubled (an extra few thousand dollars per month). I bet you $10 your revenue will increase significantly!
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Maybe spend a bit less time telling me why "democratic capitalism" is bad, and a bit more time telling me why your system is good.

You fail to tell me what actual mechanisms you're proposing to fix this, and until you've got that you've got nothing.

Is it just a call to action? Asking people in tech to think about the problems?

Because the people who were inclined to think about this already are, whether it's Charles Stross talking about interfacing centrally planned economies with capitalism in his novels, or the pirate party working on fluid democracy.

I'm also not convinced your socialist/communist political theory is up-to-snuff. No one is arguing that the capture-value/create-value disparity isn't a big problem, but claiming that it's all because of human-selfishness instead of more nuanced coordination problems is concerning.

Read meditations on moloch, and less communism 102. Don't make an ideological tract, try to build something.
When you say "you want", generally that's because you have a full time job, and don't want to spend your free time doing the same as work.

Either you do quick hack because you want to play. Or you design nice stuff because you have to do something exceptional.

If you want passive income, you need to get out of that mentality. After work is still work, except you are the employer.
no git?
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Drivers ed instructors, which is basically what supervising a self driving car is, are $14/hour average: http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Job=Driving_Instructor/H... I think this is higher than what uber is paying now.
The search by previous characters seems to be the default behaviour of FreeBSD's t/csh. Confused the hell out of me at first because Ctrl+R isn't reverse search.
Number 2 is a good idea until you realize most uber drivers are lower income people with relatively high latency connections. Add in that most of them will probably be on WiFi and its a non-starter.
The same way you assume you can compute how a ball flies through the air without using quantum field theory. Turns out, the ball isn't noticeably influenced by its atomic structure. But then it turns out, some of biology might be.

The best description is the simplest one being able to describe all related phenomena. So unless you have a very good reason, it wouldn't be helpful to start from the standard model of particle physics.
Just for laughs I opened that link, figuring I'm really behind on emerging tech since I'm basically a Fortune 500 lifer at this point (and not for a tech firm). And there I see SAS on the list. That ancient dinosaur that I still use and love.

I might need to give this a go. If my past 15 years are any indicator, a SAS course wouldn't need much updating :)
It is near impossible to write "Modern" PHP and achieve good performance.

On every request, PHP reads and parses every file that is referenced somehow. It is in direct contradiction to the language constructs the PHP itself provides - especially Exceptions, Interfaces and Inheritance.

People want to use these features, because they help design better systems, where the concerns are separated, and features are plugins instead of hardcoded all over the place.

Unfortunately, the required files for a request can pile up quite quickly, to the point where bytecode cache does not help, serving multiple requests per PHP load does not help, prewarming cache for frontend such as Varnish does not help, memory usage is over the roof because of trashed heap memory.

So, to sum up, the author here is right: this is insanity, until PHP provides a module system that can handle PHP abstractions.
I'm not a huge fan of OO, but this gets the history of OO soooo wrong. I mean, really, this has to be a joke.
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Why not? At least you don't have to log in to read it.
Self-pub, through Leanpub and eventually Kindle, Createspace, and iBooks, I'm up to around 100-200 sales/month (ASP ~$10, net ~$7), mostly by keeping my book updated with the latest version of the software I write about (so my book is the only one that's constantly relevant, unlike the ones from the major publishers). I spend maybe 2-4 hours/month updating the book, running tests and fixing things.
Not really. Let's say your commute is 50 minutes, with 45 minutes of it being stuck in traffic - during which time you do move, just slowly and unpredictably. During those other 5 minutes though, you might be moving at a pretty good 60mph clip - so that's five miles. Walking that would take an hour.

And that's assuming you're in a walkable place. Many cities aren't built for it, and walking 30 minutes in 102 degree heat in Texas isn't a good option.
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Funny I get this nagging experience (regarding the 2 factor authentication) from facebook, google, and a few others that I don't have in mind.
Yet you can take those on a plane but not a >100ml bottle of water.
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We don't have to make this thought experiment since we already know that it isn't the case - reality is a subset of what's mathematically possible. Finding that subset is what physics is concerned with.
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I don't see it here as the "filter": they don't have any advantage of being recognized as scam by some users. I estimate that these users capable of "reporting" them properly still aren't potentially dangerous enough for them to care.
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You can do that with the routing table.
There's a free version of Gumroad and you can sell things with a pay what you want scheme: https://help.gumroad.com/11164-Payments/pay-what-you-want-pr...

The premium version of Gumroad is $10 per month, and reduces the cut they take.

There's leanpub too, though I don't know if you can upload an already made pdf. Worth checking out though.
This research uses fMRI, but recently some bugs were found[0] which have called into question a lot of the result. This includes, I think, many of the results regarding free will.

Is there an expert here who can comment on the accuracy of this 2008 study, given the more recent news about bugs in fMRI software?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12032269
Most of security threats a small project encounters are very low-effort and concentrate around automatic checking for known exploits in widely used technology. Your site will be probed for known vulnerabilities a lot; but probability that somebody will actually invest his time in searching for SQL injections in your custom code is much lower.
Bryan Cantrill's USENIX talk "The Emperor's Wardrobe" discussed a lot of the issues that the Unconference is trying to solve.
> A construct that can react in only one way to any given set of inputs (including its internal state, etc.) intuitively doesn't have 'free will'.

Then intuition is wrong, as is often the case. Either the decision is random, or it is mine, or it is somebody or something else's. There can be combinations of those factors, and of course that is actually the usual case. In fact arguably in practice it's always the case.

> What you need to really satisfy the intuitive concept of 'free will' is some analytical agency, external to our physical reality, which affects the outcome in some purposeful way. So, basically, a 'soul'.

But any analytical agency is going to encapsulate state. Moving that outside our physical bodies is just kicking the can down the metaphysical road but doesn't actually solve anything.

If we want to invoke pure randomness, there's always Quantum Mechanics. In fact there's a post on the intersection of quantum mechanics and biology on the front page right now [0]. But of course random input doesn't seem very 'free' either.

My point is that 'free will' in the abstract isn't an agency. To have agency there must be an agent and agents have state. When we are talking about free will, we should be talking about the free will of the agent. To the extent that the agent made the decision without undue external influence then they have free will. Can we ever be free of ourselves?

Edit: byt +1, good post and I definitely concur with your last point.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12314600
People use what they got. Most businesses accept American Express. So people carry it in their wallets. Network effect. Facebook is a good meeting point. Its hard to be pedantic on things that literally will kill minor relationships.
> Maybe I'm overstepping my bounds, but this article is furthering certain stereotypes about PHP-programmers.

You probably are. You'd make a better case if you were actually discussing http://www.phptherightway.com/.
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What would you say is the main driving rationale for bus1?
This is pretty common in the biotech start-up world as well. Do an analysis of what the big biotechs (Novartis, Pfizer, Roche, BMS) are investing in and go out and start a company in that space. A few years later, you either get a big investment from them, an in-licensing deal or outright acquisition. I think it's a pretty smart way to do things.

Of course, what's "hot" can change pretty fast, so you have to be lucky as well.
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Sure, of course. It's not like the amateurs used combustion engines in their flying models for decades.
Unity Engine did displaced the existing market leader by offering a very permissive licensing scheme in comparison. And had already C# as the main programming language, which is miles more accessible than C/C++ for any beginner.

The features are slowly getting on par, but Unreal does offer numerous add-on to the engine to optimise the game (one that caught my eye was a world map analysis).
Wow. I seem to recall that I was made to sign a statement by my credit union to the effect that the money from my downpayment was free of all lien, i.e. was an asset and not a liability.
> You can't be serious. Need your child to see their primary care physician in the US because it has a fever?

I'm not referring to a simple thing like a fever. I'm referring to more serious things, like autism.

> That appointment is probably a week or more out,

We got assistance from the US before we moved here.

> in Canada, they will see that child that day.

The wait time was years. Literally.

> The US system is entirely around how well you can afford to be.

The services that specifically benefit my children's autism has nothing to do with how much I can afford, or my level of insurance. In Canada, however, it would have cost me $30k+ a year to get assistance in the shortest amount of time, and that was still after a 1.5 year wait.

You are making assumptions, all wrong, about the situation my family is in. If you want to pretend that Canada offered better care for them, be my guest. I just hope you never have to go through what we had to go through. It was horrible, and your blind assumption that Canadian health care is superior in all cases is because you choose to remain ignorant of it's problems.

> There are no benefits to the US healthcare system unless you are rich, a doctor or an insurance company.

Or, in my case, I love my child and don't want to see him abused by a corrupted system.

Willful ignorance is a bad thing.
No, you use PDO::quote().
Sounds like this might be interesting, but I have no idea why unconferences are growing in popularity. In my experience the only differences to conferences is that they are poorly organised and have fewer high calibre attendees. Am I missing something?
Android client for Steam is a long time coming. (and no, not just a chat client, but a dedicated one to distribute Android games)
Taxi prices are set by the local government in every US city I've ever seen.
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I went to HOPE a few weeks ago, after having been to such things before, but not for a few years.

I had exactly the same impression - mostly a lifestyle / social / political thing, pretty light on in the way of talks with actual technical detail. Kind of like TED talks - well presented, entertaining, but not really actionable.

In years gone by, I went to some excellent events, with talks on really specific, useful things (kernel internals, gdb use, ELF dynamic loading, ltrace / strace use, that kind of thing). Can't help but wonder if those sorts of conferences still exist, or the whole scene has changed into something less practical and more lifestyle.
I kind of get what he is saying but he is saying it very badly I believe Jeffrey Way the same things a lot better.

Yes you don't need a framework all the time you don't need to do OOP all the time or follow design patterns all the time but the cases in which you don't need to do that are edge cases that very few programmers run into.

Also if you think PHP is a framework then it must be the worst framework ever designed. Libraries exist precisely because they were required to smooth out the inconsistencies and insanities of the underlying language tools.

A framework is just a collection of libraries wove together with some sane default ways of doing things. Some even allow you take them apart and customize them but they give you a good starting point.

If the way the framework does things is not good for your requirements you can try another and only if you are absolutely certain none of them do the job should you roll your own because once you do the barrier to entry for someone new to the code base will be that much higher.

The only thing I do agree with is that security should be a consideration in the development process but here we get back to the fact that a tried and tested framework has already dealt with the most common security issues and as long as you don't do something stupid in your own code you should be OK.
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Kind of. City miles are harder than highway miles. A taxi is likely all city.
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> Al-Bassam writes that the tool works by sending a packet to the target machine that makes it dump some of its memory. Included in that dump is the VPN’s authentication password, which is used to log into the device.

> Both Al-Bassam and Maksym Zaitsev, another researcher who has been looking into BENIGNCERTAIN, believe that the attack is likely capable of extracting private encryption keys from VPNs as well, which is another, more robust way of authenticating access.

Seems similar to the famous "Heartbleed" OpenSSL bug, possibly even easier to achieve.

http://heartbleed.com/
Makes more sense when it's for and by an actual community of people, in which case it's a bit more like a party with your friends where you all give talks and take part in semi-structured activities
SolidEnergy is going to make its own batteries, so I meant why isn't Tesla buying their batteries instead of Panasonic's batteries? But my best guess is it has something to do with price per Kwh being much higher or simply not being confident in SE's ability to scale up to 50GWh per year in the next 2-3 years, which is what Tesla is going to need for the Model 3.
>>> The wrong way: Always use a framework on top of PHP

I haven't been actively working with PHP for quite some time but... From what I've seen, I wish many people didn't take this advice (including the teenager me).

It's similar to ORM. Often, if you don't use one, you end up building one, a very poor one. Yes yes I know there are exceptions and all but, in general, that's truth. Same with frameworks. If you don't use one, you end up writing a poor one, unless all you need is a page that outputs a result of a single SQL query, or something equally trivial.

I've seen plenty of 10k+ LoC applications with home made frameworks, poorly replicating open source ones, just because.

>>> In the world of Python and Ruby building websites from the ground up is tiresome because neither Python nor Ruby was originally created to build websites. As a result general purpose frameworks such as Django and Ruby on Rails quickly became popular for building websites in these languages.

RoR, Django became popular because it's so simple to build basic CRUD apps, which most of the applications are. Most of the stuff is done for you. Can't say the same about plain PHP. The author largely ignores the reasons why the mentioned frameworks became popular.

Yes, you could make a well engineered solution from scratch. But chances are that you will not, time constraints being one of the reasons.

Sorry, couldn't read further than that.
It's an app that shows you the direction to the nearest radio tower. You basically turn it on and it points to the nearest one, with a compass so you know the direction to point your antenna in. I have only done it in Sweden so far, so feel free to develop a similar app in your country ;)
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