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What would you recommend as a starting language to build a MVP? The extent of my experience is html/css, manipulating wordpress php files, and a weekend hacking together a couple of learning projects (a PHP blogging platform and a "rank this list of items by number of upvotes/this number" website).

Given my past experience I was planning to use PHP as it is the only language I have any experience with and while the functionality I'm shooting for is totally different, I don't envision it being any more difficult to code than the blogging platform. I will be interacting with a database.

Are the other options as easy to pick up as PHP? Is it as easy to google for help?
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> There is no threading support whatsoever.
>> That's a good thing. It forces you to use async HTTP programming or something like beanstalk, both of which are better than the complexity of threading.

While there isn't multi-threading in PHP, you can in fact multi-process which provides similar functionality.

http://php.net/manual/en/function.pcntl-fork.php
He's alluding to his own coding ability being inferior to the author's (I presume).
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I'd argue that as a product it isn't there quite yet. There a few deal breaker features that it doesn't have yet. Given the polish of Trello and other PM/collaboration tools I think I need to do the opposite--quit blogging and work on the product. I guess when you are doing both you just have to find a balance.

When I get through this push of development I'm going to launch the premium plans and focus on the points @bmelton and others have brought up (copy, conversion, landing pages, etc.)
Yaf PHP framework comes first in benchmark
>Modern scientific medicine is supposed - no, required (with the increasingly narrow exception of surgery) - to learn only in the first way. Guess what? It doesn't seem to be learning much. Or at least, much of any use. Maybe medicine isn't as much like physics as we'd thought.

Hmmm: http://www.ined.fr/fichier/t_paragraphe/27734/paragraphe_img...

It seems we've doubled our life expectancy in the last 50 years. Medicine isn't working you say?

Look, I'm bitter as much as anyone else about the state of academics. I'm ex-academic-biology and have made no bones about it, here in this thread or elsewhere. But you are seriously characterizing the entire field.

Do you know why people are dieing from cancer? Because we've cured all the other diseases that killed them off at age 40.

Think about that for a minute.

Cancer is simply your body falling apart, going off the rails and destroying itself. It's doing that because, frankly, we were never intended to live 100 years. Thanks to modern medicine, we live well past the age that normal diseases killed our ancestors.

Our reward: battling cancer, instead of tuberculosis, pnemonia, cholera, gangrene or simply fever.
This is why:

http://www.google.com/search?q=php+mysql

Searching for PHP and MySQL yields tons of tutorials, code examples, and documentation related to the now-deprecated mysql interface. When I wrote my first comprehensive PHP application last year I spent half a day trying to determine best practices before finally settling on PDO. Newbies won't go through that effort, and will naively land on mysql rather than PDO or mysqli as likely as not.
BBC micros in UK schools would be a good example of this kind of subsidy being beneficial.

It didn't matter that the chances of running into similar systems in industry were minute unless you ended up coding 6502 for factory automation. It gave a platform for children to experiment on and get used to the idea of coding.

Also, the percentage of children who this inspires doesn't even have to be particularly high for it to have definite beneficial economic effects further down the line and I would be amazed if this kind of effect would be measurable after less than 2 years.
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That's usually something that bothers me about C and it's libraries. I don't see the point in saving those bytes when we aren't really typing them anymore (because of modern text editors and IDEs.) Abbreviation makes the code look uglier and more cryptic, I know that appeals to some coders, but not me.
It's actually a "manifest" -- a list of things that are included (well, should be included) -- in any hack event.
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Its shocking how effectively Apple is able to move the eight-ball on companies like Toshiba. "We have lots of cores!" "Available in any screen size!"

Hey Toshiba: no one cares about those specs right now - Apple shifted the conversation for the majority of the tablet market to screen res, where they have an essentially unassailable competitive advantage for quite some time.
And, Toshiba missed the boat, which makes their claims for cores and screen sizes seem flat and mis-timed.

Note: I have an awesome toshiba laptop that I carted around the world for me in 2008, which is still going strong. Added a hybrid ssd/platter drive to perk up win7 performance, and its still my daily driver. Toshiba makes great products, they're just eating Apple's dust, like everyone else.
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Not I (my family comes from there, but not myself, except for visiting). However I share your surprise - good luck to them :)
Paying $1B for a company partly because they've "created $1billion in value in ~550 days" is a bit of a tautological line of reasoning.
I'm not sure about the data-center, but an old notebook makes a good home-servers/media-center: super quiet, slim form factor and built in UPS. You just need one that can run cool with the screen closed.
Won't be able to make it this time, but I hope we can have a mailing list setup to catch the updates, and keep in touch till the next meetup ..
Yeah, it does. But mostly because big pharma's actual "research" is pretty slim. Most basic research is done by university professors and their labs, which are then sold, licensed or simply picked up by big pharma.

Basically, big pharma doesn't have much time or money to spend on basic research since it has to run clinical trials and make money.
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The problem is that most people lack the proper compiler development background when discussing languages.

Most people without a proper CS background mix the language with the implementation.

A language is defined by:

- syntax

- semantics

- libraries

Everything above can be made available as:

- bytecode interpreter

- text parser based interpreter (like the earlier BASICs)

- compiler

- JIT

That is why it is absurd to discuss language A vs language B in regard to implementations, because any language can have all types of implementations.

It is always a matter of cost/benefit which type of implementation is used as default for a given language.
Care to elaborate what's your particular hybrid drive model? I thought the fashion for hybrid drives faded away.
I can't believe that this is a real thing. The fact that a (purportedly) serious language runtime designed for web applications would have this in it seems like a staggering breach of professionalism.
Yes, but creativity needs structural boundaries in order to be channeled into practical use. A combination of structured ("focused") and unstructured time is probably ideal.

Structure need not be extrinsically imposed, though; it can be self-directed (otherwise known as discipline).
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It can get rough, or even very rough in some parts of the US (let alone some other parts of the world... a few months ago I was following the case of a Saudi Arabian who posted a few tweets expressing atheist views; he had to flee the country, but Malaysia actually deported him back to SA to face a death sentence).

No need to be a capitalist slave, though. A life spent chasing gods or dollars isn't generally a life well-spent in either case; but of course there are more options.
* "We have lots of cores!" "Available in any screen size!"
Hey Toshiba: no one cares about those specs right now*

We're talking about the Apple that is trialing a 7" tablet, right? The one that talked up "4 cores" at the 3rd generation unveiling? Same Apple?

There are millions and millions of non-Apple tablets being sold. This seems like a laughably tiny number compared to the incredible success Apple has yielded, but in consumer electronics it is substantial. It is bloody sad, however, that every time someone tries to make a product this whole clucking "nah nah Apple is better" nonsense gets carted out.

Keep on keeping on Toshiba, and samsung, and LG, and...
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So I'm curious...what programming language did he learn and use for instagram?
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Actually I think C++11 is a simpler language than C++03 or C++98. The problem is that we need to un-learn what we know and learn the new way of doing things.
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Has anyone ever launched a modern tablet with a 13" screen size? I don't think so. And it doesn't matter what Apple sets the conversation to; just like most consumers don't care how many cores it has, most don't care how many pixels it has.

The product has to work well, be priced right, have good marketing and be visible to consumers. A 13" tablet is unique and may attract some attention, if only as an experiment (which may fail in the market, but would still provide valuable lessons and information to the industry).
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Or just install cygwin and autossh. Works fine in windows. This plus Tmux works great.
This is some of the most in-depth benchmarking I've seen done of PHP frameworks. I've never heard of Yaf before, but now I'll give it a look.
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You are correct, I alluded to that. I thought about how I would have coded that as a native App (Java/Objective-C). Or just done it straight in C/C++ with Image-Loading, Image placement, different colors, a Button and then the animation.
I think your instincts are spot on. There can be no definitive word on OLPC at this early stage. Certainly you like to check in as early and as often as possible, but anyone with any in-school experience at all, even experience solely as a student, knows that teachers as a group cannot change their methods in a years time.

Any thinking that the writer here did was with a sociologist hat on rather than that of a domestic education policy wonk.
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Sure... when dealing with custom C code and hand-rolled non-vanilla PHP, I can see that happening. Understand that your experience was in the realm of the .01% of PHP usage. 200/req second isn't all that outrageous for run of the mill PHP (depending on hardware) but when you're throwing in custom connector stuff on top of that, yeah, you'll get core dumps. :/
Title is link bait. This is not an admission by the TSA. This is an admission by some low-level TSA employee.
I really don't get why ChromeOS should exist .. wouldn't an Android tablet with a keyboard (e.g. Asus Transformer) be a much better choice?
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Haven't read the document yet, so I don't know if there's a rationale for naming.

It might simply be racial memory, from the days of linkers with eight character symbols (and the initial underscore ate one of them). It's hard to believe we actually wrote software under those limitations.
This is nothing more than a simple press release to say that Red Hat and 10gen are working on "something."

World's BEST? C'mon man. This title resembles a title on a pamphlet at a florida timeshare seminar.

That being said - the article is scant on all details. No mentioning of software bundled, when it'll be done, if it's going to only offer an "enterprise only" license version (sounds like it by the article), etc etc...
Sure - Seagate Momentus XT, 750GB model; 16GB SSD. The OS boots at SSD speeds, and the ~7 applications that I use frequently do too. But, I have the storage of a traditional drive, and the whole deal cost $170.

Hybrids aren't for eveyone - gamers, pro photogs, heavy developers, etc. I think would overwhelm the hybrid's ability to offer any advantage. But I knew my usage patterns (a limited retinue of light weight applications) were ideally suited for it.

The laptop is a U200, has a first gen Core Duo, and 2GB of RAM. Bought in 2008 ($800!), upgraded the RAM too, obviously. Boots Win7 to password screen in ~15 seconds.
Looks like this acquisition was in their business plan.
This just flags your account as deleted. The data is never removed from the servers.
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Which, I believe, is the plan in the longer term. Apple is going to leave Java platform development to Oracle - there was a spate of "Apple eliminating Java from OS X" articles back when it was announced (last year?)
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>Unfortunately, early-adopting Cr-48 owners are out of luck — the build of Chrome OS in question is only for Acer AC700 and Samsung Series 5 Chromebooks.

I found this quite funny considering the Cr-48 owners got them for free.
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For exactly this reason, Metricfire keeps different aggregate views of the data. Observations is one view. Graphite throws too much away, leading to this sort of, admittedly pretty clever, hacking about with multiple functions.
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Looks like a great story, keep it going!
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Sooo.. You mainly use PHP yourself, then?
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Except for the part where you want integrity; AFAIK only xfs guarantees truly atomic snapshotting thanks to xfs_freeze.

Furthermore, it's also (by an extremely large margin) your best choice if you need a filesystem bigger than 16 TB.
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Google started work on ChromeOS before Android became successful in the market and long before it arrived on tablets. Additionally, I don't think Google really wants everybody on an OS that runs native apps. Their speciality is the web. Their money comes from the web and the more time people spend searching and browsing the more money they make. ChromeOS is probably what they wish everybody were using, but they aren't going to ignore Android's success.

They'll keep building ChromeOS to hedge their bets. They can't risk getting shoved out of the OS game in any way.
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You've managed to nail my point exactly in your pugnacious response. A year from now, when Toshiba, Dell, and everyone else have pivoted and are talking up even better screen resolution, Apple's going to move the eight-ball again: maybe to 7 inch tablets, maybe to cores, nobody knows but Tim & Jon.

Did you even read my post? I don't think Apple is "better" - I think they're great at wagging the dog, the dog being us consumers.
Few of the demo parties, lan parties, conferences etc I've attended conformed to all, or even most, of these rules. This 'manifesto' would probably be more useful as a guide, or a conversation (wiki, forum). It's quite obvious that you need good network, power, registration etc, but how to actually go about doing it is less so.
Yet Another Framework (Yaf) is a PHP framework similar to zend framework, which is written in C and built as PHP extension.

Author: http://www.laruence.com/yaf/

PECL: http://pecl.php.net/package/yaf

Manual: http://www.php.net/manual/en/book.yaf.php
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And? :)
i would even be happy with 10 years.
That's comparing R and Julia, not R and J.
People have been writing murder mysteries for the past hundred years, and some people are still writing murder mysteries, and some people write them in the hope of selling millions of copies. There’s nothing wrong, in itself, with writing about a topic that has been written about before.
It seems that many people disregard the fact that PHP is a very accessible language to a programming newcomer. You can quickly and easily install LAMP or MAMP and in minutes have a working, dynamic web page (albeit local) along with a plethora of examples and tutorials. This is huge. This shows the newcomer that this mysterious code stuff is actually accessible; that they can create something that works. That's a nice intro to programming.

More programmers===better programs. How can this be a bad thing?

As far as the snobbery goes, to me it just seems like natural human behavior. People need to believe that their beliefs, their choices are the right ones. For some, the easiest way to do that--rather than being honestly objective or introspective--is to degrade what others do.
What? I find working with databases in PHP (using PDO) far more enjoyable and fast than, say, working in Python.
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Especially on the sustenance and prizes sections: if you're putting together a Python-related Hack Day, the Python Software Foundation will throw some dough your way to make those happen. http://pythonsprints.com/
Asking any of the people that signed the manifesto would probably be a good start ;)
While I agree with your priorities, I think it's misleading to say they "don't matter". They do matter. They just don't matter as much.
I would have agreed with you if this was the Google of 4 years ago, but I think the faction of the company that thinks web-first is either gone or silenced. Android has the worst support for web apps as first class apps of any of the major mobile OSes.
I had a chance to speak with a Google engineer about this not long ago. They said that Chrome was meant to be cloud-centric, whereas Android focuses more on Apps. (A bit of an oversimplification, but generally accurate.)

My take: ChromeOS may actually be better for Google's interests in the long term. However Android's success has resulting in significantly more momentum currently. The release of Chrome on Android might be an effort to move Android more in line with Google's larger goals.
> If this one thing that annoys me on HN it's the pervasive anti-PHP snobbery.

If there's one thing that annoys me on programmer forums in general, it's that pointing out PHP's giant flaws is conflated with snobbery. Design matters, and that is not the same thing as saying it's impossible to build anything good with PHP.
Here is a little insight to answer your question: http://taxes.about.com/od/income/qt/credit-card-rewards-and-... I would still consult an accountant as well.
An important thing to remember about PHP is that it really isn't stuck in 1996: When we say PHP you need to think WordPress, or Drupal, or CakePHP or Symfony, since that's what one actually uses nowadays. Novices are steered away from code that pipes SQL injections directly to the database, and toward one of these frameworks, which does the heavy lifting for you so that you don't need to reinvent the wheel.

For years I consoled myself by calling myself a "Drupal developer". I'm not a PHP developer; if I weren't using Drupal I wouldn't touch the language with a ten-foot pole.

But I agree that basic PHP is optimized for the style of web development that dates back to 1996: Server-side rendering of HTML templates. (More powerful PHP - the underpinnings of the PHP frameworks, the stuff one gets in the latest versions like objects and namespaces and closures - basically turns the language into the equivalent of every other scripting language, though obviously much more inconsistent; there's no great reason to choose any of that over Python or Ruby except that it degrades gracefully to PHP, which may actually be very important, but only so long as what you're building looks superficially like a server-side-rendered HTML template from 1996.)

One reason why I'm spilling 10,000 words on PHP is that I've been working with it for five years now, but I'm having trouble getting excited by its future. It has a long future, because 1996-style web sites are not going anywhere: WordPress.com has a zillion users and Drupal is taking over the enterprise and, well, Facebook. But one eventually gets tired of living in 1996. And PHP is useless for client-side-rendered "HTML 5" views, or mobile app client development, and its advantages as a templating language become moot if your server-side code is just an API coughing out JSON objects RESTfully. No newb can figure out that stuff today - even wizards can't agree on the proper semantics of REST, for example - and if ever we do develop a framework for designing RESTful APIs that's as easy for novice programmers to pick up as PHP is for 1996-style templating, I'm betting that framework won't be built in PHP.

But maybe I'm wrong. Hence, deep thought.
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In my opinion using PHP is a staggering breach of professionalism.

Would you visit a dentist that used tools as bad as PHP? "Hey, it's not about the tools," they'd scream while you're running away.
> there is absolutely no excuse to start new work in PHP.

I hate PHP myself, but as far as my personal projects go, PHP is perfect for cheap shared web hosting. Some fairly basic and crappy functionality to prevent users from stomping on each other's files is included. Something that can reasonably replace PHP in that role would be what it took to phase it out of my personal use, and what people choose for their own work affects their choices on all work.
Nobody disputes "that a good tool can give you a competitive advantage". What's at dispute is whether other things, such as skill or tacit knowledge in a field, give you greater advantages than this possibly over-optimized tool selection.

Also, why should anyone take your unproven assertion up with Paul Graham? His essays don't support your insistence that the "better" tool wins. On the contrary, I'd argue PG believes a whole host of factors contribute to success before optimizing tool selection down to the last detail.
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8 ip addresses per attendee? That's a little high. It's incredibly hard to make DHCP work at that scale, and allocating 8 per attendee is wrong. Try 4 - if you're being nice - or 2 if you're constrained. (2 = one smartphone/tablet and a computer).
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