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> To imagine that we have willed this universe into being is simply solipsistic

That's a straw man though. Even the most woolly-minded liberal hippy consumer doesn't imagine that their purchasing choices are the sole driver of events in China. The word "solipsistic" doesn't make the possibility of effective consumer activism disappear.
You can't rely on that if you have other users connecting though. Too many people ignore even the starkest of warning messages. While that problem will not go away, keeping SSH on a port below 1024 is slightly safer and has no disadvantage other than it isn't as catchy as 2222 (and if you are using 2222, be aware that automated attacks often check that as well as 22 because of how common an alternative it is, so you might as well just use 22 and be done with it).
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So, do you want the PHP to be a clone of python? PHP works for some and python works for others. Do we really need a FUD to convert people? Hint: read python sucks articles from Ruby rockstars.
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Didnt they alter it to allow some ads through by default; or was that all reverted?
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As someone who goes to PHP when he needs to program for the web, and has been doing so for some 13 years now, seeing the horse beaten again didn't move me. I can't say I spent much time on your article, mostly because at this stage of my life, focusing on the negative doesn't earn you anything.

I say that because, while it's clear you spent a lot of time on this, it's not really useful precisely because you don't provide any direction. Who is this article for? New people? They aren't going to understand half of what you wrote, but more importantly, they don't know where to turn to for the next step. You mention Python. And that's cool! Python is an awesome language. Your target audience (new programmers or new web developers) aren't going to read through that entire thing. The only people who will are PHP developers who want to respond and people already hate a programming language.

What would be valuable is if you took a look at why people pick up PHP, and instead of trying to destroy it's existence with a single post, you actually show them how they can use Python to do what PHP does. You've clearly done the research, so you know where PHP's strengths are, and why people still navigate toward it.

Anyone can destroy. It takes actual effort to create. Help create. =)
I have to think about it for a while and will let you know, because there are 2 important things to consider: what will be visualized and how. In case of how you've got plenty of options: colors, size and even some icons or graphs. But before deciding on the form the crucial part will be what. And that requires defining some kind of methodology for measuring the dynamics of what I've called 'the heat of discussion'. I personally (probably like mmatey) come to HN to learn something new and discover new opinions, reflections and reactions of the people. Some important metrics of a good thread might be: number of commenters, length of comments, number of 1-on-1 ping-pong comment exchanges where the answers are upvoted by other people. You know discovering the threads where people are actually discussing something, because current system of HN ranking doesn't differentiate such threads from topics where 200 hundred people comment "Yeah, me too" ;) Well, these were just few unstructured reflections, I'll get back to you later if I'll have something more interesting and you'll be interested.
How fast are modern languages when it comes to parsing files?
But that's not their target market, is it?

I don't know, you'd have to ask the Exec team.

Me, I think that's a great starting target market. It's not enough as a final objective, but if they can saturate that market, they're in a good position to expand to the rest.
> wasn't the Netscape code released under the NPL/MPL, partially for this reason?

Exactly. When I wrote the original comment, I didn't remember Netscape invented its own license.
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Instead of automatically throwing a 500 on a random, unimportant, uncaught exception, PHP makes a best effort, and most of the time the result is fine.

And how precisely does PHP "know" which exceptions are important and which are not? In my experience of 6 years as a web developer, the faster and the more explicitly something fails the better. If the user gets a 500, that's a pretty clear sign of a problem, I get an email notification about it, including user id, session data etc. Then, in most cases, I can easily see what the problem was, decide what the correct behaviour is and create a fix immediately and even notify the user after releasing it if I wish to do it. If there is no exception there is a case in the code I was not aware of when writing it and it will still not be brought to my attention. In the best case, the user will report some problem with the functionality and I will have to spends hours trying to find the logs for this user and reproduce the problem, which will now be much harder, quite some time could have passed since the error, the database entries for the user could have change meanwhile (including corruption caused by the system continuing to operate despite an error) and so on. In the worst case, the bug will continue to affect users (which might not even know what the intended behaviour was) and I will learn about it a year from now, accidentally.

Reproducing bugs is hard enough in web applications due to their distributed nature, some of the applications I worked on had serious business-affecting bugs that went unnoticed for months and failure to clearly signal errors is one of the common cases. It doesn't matter whether you are in banking or just building another social CMS/CRM "kind of thing", if you have bugs you loose users and with them money.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fail-fast
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I think it wasn't, but I think the reasoning is strong enough to prevent it form ever being tested. It's easier to settle.
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> I don't get why there is always a big backlash against the photographer in these articles ...

I believe that it is because they often close by exhorting everyone not to give away photos for free, or sell them for third world prices. They assert that hobbyists and part-timers are at fault for destroying the careers of those photography professionals that rely on image sales to put food on the table.

Just as you are free to decline a $100 offer, I should be free to accept it. Similarly, you should be free to attempt to persuade potential clients that your $1000 service or item is ten times as good as my $100 service or item.

What is inappropriate is if you tell me that I shouldn't charge $100 because you're trying to make $1000 out of the deal.
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His first prototype idea got $500k seed from Baseline and AH. Thats after putting together a basic HTML5 Game mashup of foursquare and mafia wars.

I could interpret the article to say that being determined and focused, while being ready for opportunities, are the critical ingredients to success.

Saying that determination and focus are key ingredients - is just taking an event and looking at it through your own personal lens.

Heck, you could have been the hardest worker, and a genius, but if your name was Nikola Tesla your end result would still be penury.
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What's so hard to believe about that? Are there any programmers who aren't self taught these days . . .
You can serve insane amounts of users on a single $200 a month server from Softlayer (or EC2). It's not uncommon for many types of businesses (that charge real money) to do $250k-$1m in revenue a year per server as powerful as that.

Some types of free services that go out of their way to build traffic at the expense of revenue, or computation intensive services like real time audio/video may be exceptions to that rule.

Some anecdotal evidence - I ran a cacheless Django site that more than made the server costs back monthly via a single Adsense unit, in the gaming sector where eCPMs are rubbish, and the files you serve are huge, and the server was never at any point at more than 20% utilisation.

By and large, the cloud has lowered the barriers to entry. Unless you're running Justin.tv, server costs are down in the noise. Getting users is the hard part; serving them pages is not.
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It outputs "RIP" on a Commodore 64.

To my eternal shame, I had to look up the kernel vector at $FFD2. (it outputs a character to the current device, usually the screen, on the C64). At least I can redeem myself partially by having remembered the opcodes...
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Not sure but a contact saying "this service is now owned by $company, do you wish to allow your data to be retained". Similar offers could be required whenever contractual terms are altered, the default being to continue service.

That would mean that if a malevolent owner decided to change T&C and sell all your private data youd have a legal recourse with which to stop them.

Personally I think that Opera's browser based server offers a way forward whereby a user would have all their data local and a FB like service would operate as a hub/link - like how bt services are pointers to distributed data.
> The law has no trouble at all making fuzzy distinctions.

Actually, in most of Europe it does.

While the US, UK and Ireland's legal system is based on "Common Law", most of Europe uses "Civil Law", where the primary source of law is the law code, which is a systematic collection of interrelated articles that explain the principles of law, rights and entitlements, and how basic legal mechanisms work.

Of course there's still a lot of room for interpretation and pragmatics, but the point is that right from the start, you try to get your definitions down as clear as possible.

It's quite interesting to see how the fundamentals of our legal systems actually differ. I decided to look this up for the first time because at some point I read some thread where some US people were actively discussing interpretation of your Constitution or the Bill of Rights, as to whether something fairly trivial to define could be ruled or not--might even have had to do with the right to bear arms, but the specifics aren't important. I was just amazed that this centuries-old document was seriously being "consulted" as if somewhere between the lines would appear some sort of hidden meaning--except it was pretty obvious that the final decision would rest with the interpretation and political ideas of whatever judge got to rule it. Which completely amazed me, it's one thing if somnewhere, in some obscure corner of fiscal tax laws some particular exception to a rule isn't defined unambiguously, but the big-to-medium picture of the law is not supposed to be up for interpretation!

Except in the US, or more precisely in Common Law legal systems, that's pretty much the idea.

I'm not saying it's bad BTW, it's just different. And I'm just commenting on how surprised I was that there's other ways (in democratic countries) than to strictly codify your laws.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#2._Common_law_legal_...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(legal_system)
You know, with Microsoft people using node.js, Microsoft is actually really friendly towards JavaScript at the moment. They have made proper JavaScript debugging tools and Visual Studio integration!
Well, if working for a company where you are in charge of the security of thousands of systems, you might be asked to do exactly this.

If I was running a massive company, I would want my network security team to be buying up the latest cracking tech and checking it against as much of the corporate systems as possible.

Any corporation with any sense and lots of stuff they need to secure pays people to attack their corporate networks with anything and everything available, and then report back.
I'm scared to trust Mosh with my connection security, but the local echo sounds awesome.

What happens if I tunnel my Mosh connection through SSH? Will I still get all the features (except for roaming, obviously)?
In the end, I liked the STs better. The Amigas were, of course, more capable and more in line with Commodore and 8-bit Atari tradition, but the minimalism of the ST is refreshing to the point of reminding me of the simple elegance of the Apple II.

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My take away was that he had connections that let him pursue his ideas more than just as a weekend project.
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Because it's not good for the web if more newbies are using such a woefully insecure language.
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Thanks for mentioning my forums. We do have a Due Diligence section on the forums in addition to ones on valuation, buying of websites, selling websites etc.

In my ten years plus of buying websites, I've noticed one massive change - the decline in quality and truth. Sellers have become very sharp at scamming buyers - faking traffic, faking revenue, faking the prospects of the business. It's a mine field and it's largely due to the emergence of the career seller, someone who creates sites just to sell. He is unable to make money with the site himself, but has an incentive to convince others that they can make money out of it.

Some of them run "site flipping" courses and talk a lot about "passive income from websites". Flippa has encouraged these site flippers as all their chatter does drive business.

Our forum has long been cynical and critical of some of these practices and we are, I believe, the largest destination on the internet for intelligent, unbiased comment on the subject of buying and selling websites and have exposed some of the biggest site selling scams on the internet including those of a couple of really sharp, high-end "template" sellers swindling buyers out of $50K+ for sites worth less than $500!

The "Just Sold" section, sheff, is filled with a fair amount of fiction. Many of those sites that have apparently sold ... haven't! I posted an example of this in a comment at your blog.
He just went to a party. He didn't have rolodex of investors or anything.
The best online meeting tool in my opinion is etherpad.

The meeting starts with a document containing the agenda.
Now everybody chats and rewrites the agenda into a protocol of the decisions made.
Meeting ends.

Pros: The discussion is usually clearer, because you talk about text. No need to talk about old protocols, which are written afterwards.

Cons: Does not solve the problem that usually nobody feels responsible afterwards.
Well, if they'd be considering to outlaw selling 0days on the black market, that'd be a whole different discussion.

My first intuition would be all for it, actually. Though there might be some consequences I haven't considered.

For all I know that could already be illegal? Anyone?
Yeah, good programming languages are a lot more like Latin than English. They have rigid grammatical structures and consistent vocabulary.
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There are two potential problems with this.

1. Given an implicit patent license between A and B, and a subsequent sale of A's patents to C, is there an implicit license between C and B?

It's certainly not obvious that there would be such a license, as the basis of the original implied license between A and B is A's acting in a way that only obeys licenses A is subject to if A licenses out A's patents. C would not be in that position, and so it is harder to find implied licensing by C.

2. If there is an implicit license between C and B, what is its scope?

It is quite possible that such a license would be limited to existing products that are practicing the patents.
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> There is a common if implicit belief that systematic methods will allow the dull, or worse the dishonest, to advance the frontiers of knowledge.

Ok, I'm taken aback by that - people actually think that people who are dull and dishonest become scientists? I mean I can understand that they become - frauds -. But scientists? Well maybe not in my country, but perhaps where you live.

Anyway thats just plain daft - the smartest become scientists.

>No - the rules of science need to be made for those both brilliant and honest. Everyone else has plenty of other games they can play.

Well, aren't the rules of science the scientific method? Which anyone can use?
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Only if by "coding skills" you mean "Click somewhat appropriate buttons in SPSS". Realistically.
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What compile options were used? Dead code elimination might throw away the parsing, leaving just the I/O; I don't see anything that actually uses the parsed line.
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It wouldnt take much money for Imgur to add an upload/camera app with a few filters though would it? They're a big part of reddit content and appear to have started accreting some of that community too.
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JavaScript has its bad parts, but it's nowhere near as bad as PHP in its bad parts. JavaScript has some really good ideas in it as well. Plus, it's actually quite easy to code in JavaScript avoiding the bad parts.
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I think we're a bit spoiled these days. Five or ten years ago, we didn't have Ruby (or at least a mature RoR), Django, Clojure, or Scala (to name a few), so PHP was a pretty decent option for someone trying to get something out there efficiently. These days, there are lots of interesting platform choices (all with different barriers for entry), so many "serious" developers have moved in different directions.
None compile options whatsoever except -I /path/to/boost

Edit: I didn't "use" the parsed text, all I wanted is to iterate over the entire line and split the line, not store it anywhere.
If I am stuck on a tough coding problem, I take a pen and notepad and go to the local coffee shop for an hour or two. I leave behind the phone and laptop. Just doodle, write, think, and drink. Having an IDE open and staring at me is just too intimidating when trying to think high-level.
The problem is that a lot of HR departments won't consider people without degrees. A Stanford degree opens a lot of doors.

This is one of the reasons I have a lot of hope in online education. When it becomes mainstream, HR departments won't be able to ignore it.
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Great article, but does it answer the question it raised: Why has software evolution lagged behind?

Also, is the focus on parallel computing the only litmus to judge this as the downfall of every imperative programming language?

To answer the first question, we have to abandon our technical computing hats in favour of the philosopher's hat.

What went wrong with the promise of reusable objects? Whatever happened to 4GL? Why are frameworks confined to isolated corners of language evolution, far-removed from the domain problems faced by end-users?

Why, oh is every nerd developing an Order-Entry system from scratch? Why are nerds doing the same code again and again for decades in every conceivable new language (now FP).

You see, if we start accepting structural restrictions like those imposed by FP, then philosophically we should follow that maxim to its logical conclusion. Restrict to the point where we do not harm ourselves (by repeating).

Rant over. ;-)
"128 KiloBytes" per second is a 1Mbit connection... That's more than enough for most people unless you're a heavy video user. I think mine is about 8Mbit, but I doubt I'd notice if it dropped to 1Mbit.

I'm not arguing for the cap. I'm just confused that you think a 1Mbit connection is somehow comically slow?
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