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>One of the reasons PHP is so successful is that (in most cases) you don't have to set it up beyond the default installation. But when you need something done "correctly" it takes time. The same is true for every other server environment, where what's correct for you isn't necessarily correct for me.

I disagree. I think PHP was so massively successful because it was part of the mighty LAMP stack. The LAMP stack wasn't great because it was free of configuration, it was great because anyone could pick up an existing setup and just use it. A non-technical person could get a Bluehost or Hostgator account and get Wordpress running in under an hour.

But once you move from shared hosting to VPSes, the plug and play fun goes away. At reasonably moderate traffic, you have to tune things and debug weird issues. And debugging it, in my experience, is actually very challenging.

The best part of the LAMP stack today is that it offers a very quick way to get a good development environment. Since scripts are read off the disk, you get "auto reload" for free. That is nice, but given how mature other development environments have become, it's no longer a huge selling point to me.

Is the ease of use of the LAMP stack worth the negatives of PHP as a programming language? In my opinion, no. To me, it's only really 'yes' if you already have a very large PHP application, or you are writing software for people running LAMP stacks to deploy.

>I don't have any experience using PHP with Nginx - we use Varnish at $dayJob, alongside some very basic non-PHP routing e.g. foo.domain.com goes to one set of servers, bar.domain.com goes to another. Everything else is done in PHP, with a simple wildcard .htaccess pushing everything to that front-controller you were talking about.

If you're using .htaccess, it sounds like you're probably using Apache as an HTTP server. Varnish is a caching server.

>Edit: the article you posted is from 2011. It's not entirely fair to say PHP is bad, and use evidence from 7.5 years ago to back up your claim.

I never said PHP was bad. I am making the case that the application server paradigm where you have long running programs handling requests is better than the CGI and Fast-CGI paradigms where you run scripts per request. You can put band-aids on it, like caching very aggressively, but at the end of the day you will never get the 'free' amortization of per-request costs like you will with a proper application server.

That said, I totally think it's fair to use evidence from 7.5 years ago. A, these configuration difficulties exist today, and my proof is that I also have them today. B, Track record matters! PHP and PHP-FPM have been around for decades. Having constant security issues is a sign of endemic issues, such as what we saw with software like Wordpress or Drupal.
Heinlein predicted electronic calculators shortly after WWII in Space Jockey. The space ship has a little calculator, while the big computer is on a space station. That's more or less in line with late 60s or early 70s tech. I think a lot of science fiction has predicted 20 years out pretty well. It's past that that it usually goes off the rails, only because of the inherent difficulty of predicting the future.
Isn’t there some logical fallacy about believing that since something has never happened, it will never happen?
The ICR group reduced their energy intake by 75%, 2 days a week. Hardly real fasting, is it? And also, ..

"Log_e relative weight change over the intervention phase was −7.1% ± 0.7% (mean ± SEM) with ICR, −5.2% ± 0.6% with CCR, and −3.3% ± 0.6% with the control regimen (Poverall < 0.001, PICR vs. CCR = 0.053)."

So the difference on average between the ICR group and the CCR group was as great as the difference between the CCR and the control group.

Seems pretty clearly superior despite not being real fasting.
The problem is that all the issues you name are only marginally bad for the average consumer — there isn’t much motivation to move when the problem isn’t that bad for most. And most importantly all the issues you mention were already solvable with Bluetooth.
Fox and Disney are sued over Malaysia theme park
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You don't know me!
ArchWiki has abundant information volume.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/
That is certainly the budget as things are done now.

It seems possible you could create a process to do this level of development on an industrial scale and get costs down to the level mentioned.
Renting times :)
"Apple will sell more wireless headphones, but this won't mean they sell more wireless headphones." That's what you're saying.

If people are going to buy more wireless headphones because of these phones, then they're going to buy them from a range of manufacturers -- in fact mostly other manufacturers because the Apple ones are so pricey.

If people are going to buy more wireless headphones because of these phones then the prices will go down. Do you dispute this? Because this is the point that you originally claimed I didn't make.

> i said apple wants to sell more ... dongles.

Do you know that the phones (up until latest models) come with a dongle so there's not going to be a large number of sales of them?

> of course it's a cash grab. that is how apple operates

It's ridiculous to suggest that everything apple does is just a cheap cash grab.
This is the Key #1:

"How much would the company need to sell for before my equity has value?"

Key #2 (not mentioned ANYWHERE):
"Can you guarantee that my equity will always be worth at least that in case of acquisition for the above value?"

Key #2 stated in writing (congruent with typical verbal promises of implied future wealth) will actually protect you and possibly justify your salary sacrifices.

Without Key #2 guarantees - the next round of funding will likely push your equity value out of existence.
Go away and come back with exceptions. It is not 1990 anymore and I am not going to use C, unless it's Linux kernel driver. Bye.
> containers as Lambdas.

How similar is AWS Fargate to what you're describing?
F# for fun and profit is an excellent resource
> I've seen attempts at bringing the Linux ABI to FreeBsd, including the familiar and popular apt package manager.

That's ridiculous. `pkg` on FreeBSD is a thousand times more consistent and user friendly. Perhaps you are talking about the days before pkg-ng (next generation) became the default, but now installing anything is as easy as `pkg install foo` and it just works. It even updates automatically so URLs aren't out of date.
Transportation accounts for 28% of USA's greenhouse gas emissions. And the point is that instead of increasing your carbon footprint because other sources are greater, you should try to decrease it. Of course there are other issues of equal or greater importance, like mass consumption of cheap stuff manufactured in Asia and transported around the world, but choosing a Ford Explorer instead of a Ford Focus doesn't exactly help.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas_emissions_by_th...
And in many places consider that a road which is passable by a light duty 4x4 or pickup in summer, due to snow, may be snowmobile or snow cat access only in winter. Unless you pave the access road and have it plowed.
You can also see an early proof of concept integration with containerd at https://github.com/firecracker-microvm/firecracker-container...
Rather it will cook the e-coli. Which will kill it.
That was incredibly well written and I believe him truly. I had not considered that the amount of these tiny packages was probably people trying to learn.
Because 90% of non-tech people don't like wires. Nobody runs ethernet cables to all their devices. They don't want to have to worry about an Ethernet switch in the basement or a closet. Having a Wi-Fi router/cable modem in the bedroom is the most they want to worry about. With wireless networking they can have their devices wherever they want, without extra wires.
Spot instances are about $3.50 a month, for what it's worth.
Those old heavy front-wheel drive minivans drove like tanks in snow. Especially with a cheap set of studded snow tires, there was very little need for AWD.
Hahaha. My friend did this as a kid as well. That was in 1998 maybe. Crazy.
Just built a 1680 square foot house on agricultural land. Septic was $18,000. Water well was $10,000. Electric company charged $3000 to bring a line out 400 feet from the road. Gas line cost even more to bring out.
As Steven Pressfield tells us in The War of Art:

"The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for the duration on a diet of isolation, rejection, self-doubt, despair, ridicule, contempt, and humiliation."
I agree. I can easily convince myself I'm making a really good educated guess but in reality I'm probably just shooting 50/50, maybe even less because of bias.

Probably the same reason why it's better to stick with indexes in the long term on stocks.
Jeff has to make take his cut from somewhere after all
It's a solved problem for a given problem domain. The "best practices" for software development depend very heavily on which particular industry you're writing software for, and senior developers in one industry are basically incompetent when it comes to working in a different industry. I've worked in finance, I've worked on search, I've worked on casual Javascript games, I've worked in compilers & devtools, and I've worked adjacent to people who are doing avionics. There is no way in hell I would apply the development best practices for Javascript gaming to making a plane stay in the air, and similarly there is no way in hell I would apply avionics standards to casual games.

The point is that in a tech startup, you are attempting to solve a previously unsolved problem. If the problem has already been solved before, why shouldn't your customers just use the existing solution? And there's a generic set of best practices for startup coding, but it basically amounts to "Do absolutely nothing that doesn't help you validate the key unknowns of your business hypothesis." Basically if you know that something is going to work, you shouldn't be doing it - you should be integrating the library/service/tool that already does it, or hiring the person that's done it before.
How will Artificial Intelligence have an impact on digital marketing in 2019?
Is the quality of sound still the same in the wired mode? I have one like this, but the quality of sound in the wired mode is too atrocious to even think of it as an option. So while it ticks a "feature" on the box, it is, for all practical purposes, simply a bluetooth headphone.

Not sure, but it appears that the bypass around the amplifier (which requires power) is just not designed right.
I build industrial robots and work with ROS daily. Yeah. I'm not sure if I see where AI fits in to any of the platforms and products I've been a part of. We just aren't there yet to be worrying about the kinds of things AI may lend itself to. At least that's my opinion.
Apple's monopoly as the sole app store owner may end
> Fine. Your phone came with an adapter for them.

No, no, no. Can we please get rid of this adapter hell? It's awful and just way too much overhead. In every situation. No matter if phone or laptop
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There used to be some projects using Darwin outside of macOS etc, but they are long dead. People have apparently had a harder time even getting the kernel to boot nowadays for various reasons.
I enrolled in the class: "ML Building Blocks". It served me a page with links to two videos. The page seems broken though. The links are dead.
That system (the tribunal) is gone. It has been replaced by ML (probably trained by Tribunal data) and hence 99% automated.
Obamacare is having a surprisingly good year
right. votes would just be for the general popupation, to show which papers are popular. if votes are used at all.

scientists would focus on actual reviews and citations.

the only challenge i see is how we motivate people to write reviews. perhaps as some sort of a trade. for every paper uploaded you are expected to review 3 other papers. so that each paper can get at least 3 reviews.

there is also a potential for making a difference between public and private reviews.

private reviews would be like prepublishing reviews now, and public reviews like opinions about a paper after it's published.
Exactly this. I have to wonder if the engineers were even asked for their opinion.
I'm curious as to why you'd consider them advantages in that specific line of work. I can see lack of threads as an advantage in that it doesn't let you write multithreaded code with shared state, and forces into some kind of multiprocessing with message passing. But why would you prefer strings as 8-bit-clean, or weak support for non-Unix?
What about bash.org?
V60/90 is considered an "SUV" since the term has become synonymous with crossover. A6 isn't offered in wagon form in the US, nor is the Honda Accord. The Accord also can't be optioned with AWD.

Limited practical options in the US definitely helped push the move to CUVs.

edit: whoops, was looking at the "Cross Country" variant of the V60/90, which is a raised wagon. The normal V60/90 wagon I'll concede to be sufficient for most people's needs, but it's only been available in the US market since 2014.
The number of people that don't even have a real Wifi router and just use the POS combination modem/router that Comcast provides (and charges a frankly usurious rental fee for) them bears this out.
Why Don't They Trust Us?
So far, life without a headphone jack has been fine. I don't charge my phone while I use my headphones, and I just keep the dongle attached to my wired headphones. Used some USB-C headphones that came in the box today, and they also worked well.

There are real use cases which aren't supported, but it seems like they come from a vocal minority. And I'm not sure we should be solving these use cases with a (largely) single use port that takes up a noticeable amount of space.

Phones used to ship with IR blasters, but that doesn't really happen any more, and if you want that, you get an adapter.

Maybe I'll change my tune if my adapter breaks regularly, but I needed to replace my cheap wired headphones semi-regularly already.

My experience with my last phone, where the audio jack started losing a connection if I bumped the jack, or tried to reposition the wire also makes me look more fondly on the idea of wireless headphones, since I'm aware that the jack is not perfect tech either.

And in any case, there are still manufacturers making phones with headphone jacks, so vote with your wallet! It is sad that phones are these bundles of tech and you can't just order a phone with a headphone jack, but if this is really a deciding feature, people should definitely vote with their wallet here!
To reiterate: the point of my anecdote was to point out how out of touch I am. Sure, wireless gaming is fine.

Still, for me, I can't fathom investing the kind of money this fellow had on a gaming rig to then pair it with wireless networking. The scenario in brief: On one hand, I've opted for a blistering no-compromises frame rate, but on the other, I am tolerating a few more milliseconds of lag. Does not compute.

I remember enjoying the analysis that Riot did comparing wireless and wired gaming [1]. The chart showing the percentage of players using wired versus wireless at each of their ranking tiers is especially interesting.

In my home, I use Ubiquiti UniFi wireless access points. Comparing my workstation (wired) with my laptop (wireless, situated about 10 feet from an access point), pings to Google are delayed ~1.5ms by wireless with a few more random hiccups. Is that a big deal? No, not really for me. But then, I don't really game nor do I have dual RTX 2080s.

[1] https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/page/ethernet-vs-wifi-ping...
Shovels go in the trunk or back seat. Plywood gets strapped to the roof. Just like millions of people did for the nearly hundred years before SUV’s existed.

I don’t know what hardware cloth is, though.
I think wireless headphones are a good thing, so making them cheaper is a good thing. As you can see in my original comment, I'm just saying this is my view, and I know many people see it otherwise.
Apple, and all the other phone companies on board with this, seem to have made the gamble that there's a whole bunch of other stuff people care about more than headphone jacks. And they seem to have been right.

I don't miss my headphone jack - my phone still has one. If people really wanted headphone jacks, they'd buy phones with headphone jacks. But if you care more about the social stigma of having a blue bubble in iMessage or being seen with a previous-gen phone, I guess you're stuck with no choice but to complain.
> that I cannot possibly solve with defun and for which I would need defmacro

Well, defun is a macro: http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/m_defun.htm

The parenthesized prefix notation is advantageous because it is unambiguous and easy to format. People trained on infix still make mistakes due to associativity and precedence: mistakes in understanding an expression and in writing the correct expression which matches their intent. Their skill does not translate into unfamiliar languages that have unfamiliar operators with unfamiliar precedence and associativity rules.

The user of a Lisp benefits from the development which has gone into the language/implementation. That development is lubricated by the structure of the code. The Lisp programmer does not only write new macros, but uses existing ones, either in the language/implementation or third party libraries.

There is no problem you cannot possibly solve with defun (plus escape hatches to access any aspect of the host environment), because defun gives you access to a Turing -complete computation model.

This is simply not a genuinely honest way to evaluate tools. Gee, I'm not convinced that there is a text editing problem I can't possibly solve with ed if I bash at the keyboard long enough; so for now I will keep sitting on the fence.

possibly isn't easily, efficiently, maintainably, and so on.
This is a phenomenal mini-book. John Heresy does a superb job portraying the horror of the Bomb. What surprised me most how many citizens didn't feel that its use was inhuman.

"As for the use of the bomb, she would say, “It was war and we had to expect it.” "

"Others were of the opinion that in total war, as carried on in Japan, there was no difference between civilians and soldiers, and that the bomb itself was an effective force tending to end the bloodshed, warning Japan to surrender and thus to avoid total destruction. It seems logical that he who supports total war in principle cannot complain of a war against civilians."
I see, Mr. Bezos finally got concerned by hardware makers turning AWS into their milking cow. Quite a smart move.
This is an interesting subject. The banks that work in each federal bank's district have to buy shares in the local federal bank but they don't come with voting rights. Can this be true that its kind of like being an owner of the green bay packers without voting rights? https://www.thebalance.com/who-owns-the-federal-reserve-3305... and https://www.stlouisfed.org/in-plain-english/who-owns-the-fed...
It's not just you but reading through this article it seems to me that as a ROS user the most value I could get from solution like this are automated tests in complex simulations.
In 5 years, Ethernet outlets in homes will be like telephone outlets are today: a relic of a prior generation. I don't know anyone under age 50 who still has a landline phone. The next generation of home buyers won't know what an Ethernet cable is. Everything will be wireless. Apple doesn't even have Ethernet ports on their laptops anymore.
Just-in-time Design
The actual CPU core designs are licensed from Arm (another commenter said they're Cortex A72s).
Weird, I noticed no difference between using the headphone jack headphones or the usb-c headphones

I guess I can’t charge my phone and use headphones at the same time, but I really couldn’t before either considering the length of the charging cable.

But I guess you must always be charging your phone since the usbport is occupied?
2019 rav4 hybrid does 41/37/39 mpg. (City/highway/combined)
The Goal has a bunch of insights translatable to software engineering. This is one of them.
Effective Microorganisms (EM)Bacteria Market, Trends and Forecast 2022
Latency is another issue. If you use your phone or tablet to make music then wireless headphones have an unacceptable delay. It's not a huge niche but there are a lot of us out there.
> Consider the developer's perspective. I already have my code on GH.

What if you don't? The fact that Google needs to acknowledge that CSR isn't where existing projects are primarily hosted (and thus needs to accommodate projects primarily hosted elsewhere) doesn't mean they shouldn't try to be a primary host.
If you are lucky you can get money from renting. If you were unlucky and had a house in the rust belt and jobs disappeared then few people could buy or rent your house. So people can get trapped. At least you can expunge your mortgage debt with bankruptcy. Not being able to expunge education debt is what's holding our economy down.
I live in Sweden, we get some snow from time to time as well. What we do is put winter tires on all cars (it's mandatory in winter conditions and after December 1).

I'm pretty sure getting car seats in and out of cars have improved in the last 24 years. A baby carrier is probably more convenient in the front passenger seat, don't forget to turn off the airbag.

Most people around here just put a trailer behind the car if the stuff doesn't fit in the back with the back seats folded.

I'd also like to point out that of course some people need 4x4 with higher ground clearance. But do the majority need it?
Why don’t you just plug your old headphones into the adapter and continue to use them?
A perfect example, though it seems some here are somewhat butthurt :)
That's a pretty desperate list.

a. because wireless is less secure than wired.

b. loss and breakage isn't a wired-exclusive problem

c. backups? so long as you bring backup wireless things as well, no worries

d. Fair enough, but long cables are possible, and in regards to a smart phone, most people carry it on their person so it's not generally a problem - although the freedom to roam about the house with your phone on the counter while you're vacuuming is advantageous in those particular scenarios. Pending wireless range.
Did the last game you shipped cover its costs?
This data is begging to be analyzed by machine learning algorithms.
Try the same kind of comment in the apple support forums and you'll see what kind of mentality die hard apple fans have. The amount of "your opinions are wrong because apple is perfect" is staggering.

I went online to get some help with what was revealed to be the infamous touch-ic issues, and I was told off in so many ways ("that's an old model, you should really get the new one", "if you get flexion based damage, you are using your phone wrong", "wow, another bend-gater. Stop bending your damn phone!").

This was after internal apple documents showed that they were aware of flexion damage before the phone was released to market.