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I'll preface things with, I don't care about the cleanliness/consistency/correctness of languages, I really just care about tools to get a particular job done.

PHP isn't sexy, hell, it might be classified as a backwater these days. Fact is, it is a simple language, it works, and a whole lot of useful tools are built on top of it. I've done many bad things with PHP, some I will admit to, some I won't. Hell, I built a bunch of authentication services and prototyped a storage backup system using PHP because it was the most mature language at the time (this was years ago, and mod_php was light years ahead of mod_python, ruby wasn't even in the discussion). It worked, the security issues were known, and we knew how to scale the system.

The first post on http://anodejs.org a couple of weeks ago was pretty amazing. The title "We work at Microsoft and we use node.js". That statement in itself was amazing (you wouldn't have seen that 5+ years ago), but the use of Javascript in a large company/large team environment is an interesting exercise. My experience is that a team of 4-6 people working in the Javascript/Node server side have to put tools in place to ensure code quality and consistency that was never needed in PHP.

Each language has it's strengths and weaknesses. In the case of PHP, it isn't sexy, it is pretty homely, but a lot of people are still getting a lot of stuff built using it.
How do these news web-crawlers thrive?
What is the business model for all these web crawlers which fetches the top news from blogs / news websites and display?
Do they thrive only on the revenues from ads (or) is there any other means of earning profits ??
There's some fairly silly competition between tech blogs.

You can see from some of Sarah Lacy's tweets (https://twitter.com/#!/sarahcuda/status/189224285204783104) that PandoDaily and TechCrunch don't see eye to eye at all.

Arrington has recently been getting involved in TechCrunch again. (http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/04/im-back/)

I'd surmise that the folks at PandoDaily felt weird about him having his hand in two techblogs.

Seems pretty silly, especially considering that CrunchFund is invested in PandoDaily and not TechCrunch, but that's what I'd guess.
Spontaneous remission, while it happens, is not a significant confounding factor in pancreatic cancer.

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Fair enough. Could you provide some sort of criteria or anecdote describing how you found your current dog sitter? It might help rover.com build profiles of trustworthy individuals and make their service a viable option for dog owners like yourself, which can only be a good thing.

I'm imagining that at some point protective pet owners accept that someone from the internet is capable of providing for their pet. That sort of customer feedback goes a long way in shaping useful services.
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Ha, I actually avoided doing this so as to not sound like a shill for better-thing-X :)

I namedropped Python a couple times, and I do enjoy it for webdev. I've been considering writing something about getting into Python webdev from a purely PHP background; might do that sooner rather than later.
If the standard deviation is 10, then 8.6 degrees above the mean is insignificant. Providing a number like 8.6 without the s.d. is presenting zero evidence. That's like page two of my statistics textbook.
Can we form a club or something? I keep saying this, but it's still a relatively unpopular idea.

Kilim (lightweight actor-like concurrency for the JVM) implements what it describes as "linear ownership transfer", to where objects are owned by a single thread at a time, eliminating any potential data races.

I'd certainly like to see more of that
Nope. This works as you'd expect in Perl: the replacement is treated as code and executed like an inline function, never eval'd.
Plus the deployment model: "here's your FTP login".
>and there is no other work that I'm able to do.

No offense, but you should really find the time to learn. That's not a hit against PHP (which I don't care much about one way or another; anything good enough for Facebook but full of such a large number of gotchas can obviously be read either way) and it's not even a comment about the marketability of your particular skill set.

Instead, it's just intended as a friendly reminder that you, not your boss, are in charge of your life. :)
Spend some time on the PHP developers' mailing list and watch exactly how the language evolves. You will lose that feeling of awe and reverence pretty quickly.

And every language is designed. This one happens to be designed by committee, with all the attendant issues.

Also, nobody is arguing about whether it is popular. (Although, "most popular programming language"? What planet do you live on?) We are not arguing whether it can be useful. We are discussing whether it's a good language. Try to follow along.
That's why the server has a private key, too, to identify itself to the user.
A standard deviation of greater than 4.48 degrees would make 8.6 degrees above average insignificant, assuming a normal distribution (alpha = 0.05, two-sided Z-test).
PHP was designed by people who neither knew, nor cared what the hell they were doing, but knew they wanted something to do what they wanted to do. In that sense you cannot blame PHP for being a huge wasteland of terrible design just as you cannot blame a blind man for not being a great painter.

That being said, thank you for documenting why nobody should ever seriously use this language unless it's absolutely necessary.
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It seems like you literally are describing Processing. I'm not sure if you've heard of it: http://processing.org

It is designed for non programmers – artists and designers, so do a lot of things you are asking for.
I happen to work with NOAA and NASA scientists on coupling Earth System Models. NOAA does understand elementary descriptive statistics (so does NASA). Sometimes average temperature distributions are skewed and do not have a finite standard deviation. This is the case for the distribution of annual change in global average temperature, which deviates from a normal distribution (skewed to the right). Sample estimates of standard deviations of global average annual temperature change are meaningless because the standard deviation isn't finite. Instead you'll see measures that are meaningful (mean, min, max). Don't assume that all distributions have finite variance.
I'd love to see some stats comparing instagram to say imgur. I'd be willing to bet that imgur is serving more views, and certainly making more money. Different market, but still.
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Yes, but is any of that not already priced into the stock? The folks who have been buying and selling huge chunks of FB stock for the last few years have done a lot of thinking about that sort of thing.
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No, next they'll build nukes and ballistic missiles. Not just for isolationism but for attacking their neighbors and manipulating world's oil supply.

It is hard to see how a war with Iran can be avoided.

EDIT: Anyone who is downvoting, please post an actual reasoned response on what exactly you disagree with.
I'd say not.

Got ubuntu 11.1 on Friday and it was a beautiful 30 minutes of linux bliss and excitement.

However, wouldn't update when I installed chrome and lost features when I installed graphics drivers. Oh and Random Freezes. Didn't shutdown properly on Saturday night and then it wouldn't boot on Sunday morning. Painful.
I don't think value of FP is that it solves the complexity of parallelism. Rather it is that once one has solved the problem (designed the algorithm), FP can help assure the solution is implemented correctly. This in and of itself is a large advantage.
However, there is no need to 'pull out a command line' on Ubuntu.

The mere possibility of using a terminal does not in any way force anyone to use it. If that were true, we'd judge Windows as being too hard because newbies don't understand PowerShell.
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web2py is a good alternative for beginners.
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Keep coming. I still have Karma you can down vote. It just shows how shitty this project is.
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Foreign students contribute 12bn+ to US universities by way of tuition fees; the majority funded by their own government, organisations or families. If the US government wishes to limit foreign nationals ability to contribute to and participate in valuable research they may find the funding for that research will disappear as well.

Not to legitimise espionage, but you can't have it both ways.

This is actually a bigger issue that also encompasses outsourcing manufacturing and technology development to foreign countries where they don't play by the same rules as far as patents and IP rights.
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is there a major new startup that has been built with php in the last couple of years ? can you name one ?

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/rh3u2/any_new_major_sta...
Good. Let them blackhole themselves.

This will obviously just motivate brilliant hackers to find brilliant ways around brilliantly moronic "policy."
There are a bunch of testimonials in the comments of the Less Wrong thread.
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Arrington writes on his blog about this
http://uncrunched.com/2012/04/09/about-pando/

Basically, he is saying, the Pando folks were pissed because he is going to speak at the disrupt conference
>>Fair enough. Could you provide some sort of criteria or anecdote describing how you found your current dog sitter?

I'm spoiled and lucky. My breeders (who are also my friends) board our dogs when we need them boarded. It just happens that my breeder is the director of the breed organization for my region, and his wife is the director of the rescue organization for the same breed in my region.

They are basically what all the books/guides tell you what to look for in a good breeder. I'm not sure many people are fortunate to have that type of resource available to them.

I myself would be uncomfortable boarding a stranger's dogs, and that's counting the fact that both my wife and I have certifications in pet first aid. Not all dogs are alike, and things like how well a dog is going to integrate into a boarder's home with existing dog(s). Not all people are equipped to handle manifestations of aggression or dominance from a boarding dog towards other dogs and/or humans. Not all people are careful about what food they leave lying around within reach of a dog. Not all people are careful about how escape-proof their back yards are. Some of the people could use your unaltered dog for unethical breeding while you're gone. Lots of stuff can go wrong. You get the picture.

All I can say is that if you're really attached to your dog(s) like I am, then you should be very discriminating about who you choose to care for your dog. Finding a caregiver online is totally different from other types of services, and should require careful consideration. It's nothing at all like selling a good, meeting people or dating. You're leaving a live being in the hands of someone based on some relatively anonymous and not necessarily informed reviews.
No X11 kills the deal for me.
These are people just like us who are interested in self-preservation. Do you have any idea how many times the U.S. has completely screwed up their economy?

The world isn't fair mostly because people can't stop fucking with each other.
I think that the same thing happened with Skype..
The consensus seems to be that FB was more threatened by the prospect of google aquiring instagram than an independent instagram. Still though, that's a pretty penny to spend.
clearly the U.S. centric propaganda has gotten to you. which 1st world government isn't filled with crackpot thieving crooked perverts?
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Whoa. Definitely don't run Python as CGI. Use WSGI, run your app as a devoted low-priv user, proxy to it. Then you have only one entry point; there IS no sandbox, and nothing to exploit.
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I don't think we're looking at the same graphs. The ones I see just plot YTD average temps for the five warmest years. Even the "min" charts are still for the same five years. Except it's different years for every city. There's no way I could get a good sense of the distribution from these charts.
Just because they cut off the general public, doesn't mean their governments and/or covert ops units won't have access.
It would be nuts to consider starting a brand new, dependency-free project in PHP today for all these reasons and more. If the reason for doing that is "all I know is php", well, now you have two problems.

That said, my primary language is PHP and I've written a whole lot of it over the last few years. I can report back that the choice of language is somewhere around the 37th most important factor in the end result. Whatever its flaws, they just don't have that strong of an impact in reality.
In that case..

- I feel there is more important stuff for me to do with my life than worry about the structure of a common language.

I actually think you answered your own question :) A love of simplicity is as meaningful as a love of good structure, consistency or design.

I envy your ability to -not- want for something better.
I never said I don't use other languages. You are making assumptions.

I'm sorry if you like using Ruby and the majority of the community are pretentious assholes. I will never use Ruby or
Rails for any project.

I can tell I must have gotten a little too close to home.
Some would have you believe that we should have stopped burning fossil fuels in 1910 to avoid all the emissions over the next century. Did the gains of 100 years of machines outweigh the effect on climate? that's the question.
I wish I could give this post 10(gazillion) votes.
Wow. This is kind of like "The Truman Show" in a way. Imagine, being born there now, and your whole life you "access the Internet", without even realizing it's not actually the Internet.

Truly warped.
> If no token is available and no if-modified headers are sent, reply with:

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That's cool. There's still no reason for the second url and the 307, and you're still getting hit with requests so you're not avoiding the request load, only the download. You're smoothing out bandwidth, but not CPU & sockets.
If you showed me things like this in Ruby or Java I would go just as crazy.

Yes, PHP has its issues (so do all languages). But, if you are a good developer, you can write good code.

Many people writing PHP apps aren't good developers.
Will not happen. It would just make more people in Iran to become active in the oposition.
What makes you say that? (The article contradicts you, for what that's worth).
"I regularly visit all of our Chinese manufacturing facilities to keep an eye on what is going on and I am always talking to the factory owners, managers and assembly line staff."

This is so hilarious to anyone who is in the working class.
I understand when a startup, like Instagram acquiring eyeballs and saying: "we really don't have a business model, but when somebody will acquire us - they surely will figure this out".

But when Facebook saying "we didn't really started to monetize our 800M eyeballs, we just waiting for IPO and will figure it's later" - it's sounds silly.
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Meh, I've written a lot of PHP code. I also work in Ruby and Python. All three have problems, but I like all three.

With PHP, you have to develop a coding style that naturally avoids PHP's weird areas. It's not really that hard to avoid the mines, but you do have to be aware of them.

In exchange, you get a scalable web server and a language that requires minimal babysitting. 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. 99% of the time, this is better behavior from a user's perspective as long as functioning perfectly isn't mission critical. It may feel offensive to your OCD programmer nature, but from a pragmatic engineer's standpoint, it's oftentimes a better choice, especially when dealing with the dirty data that's so common in webapps. Do not use PHP in a banking setting.

Compared to running a rails app, administering and scaling mod_php is pleasantly hassle-free. A single webserver with a modest amount of memory can handle an large number of concurrent PHP processes and requests without needing to resort to reverse proxies or anything more exotic than a simple apache install. That's nice not only for the ease of setup, but also because it means fewer moving parts, and less maintenance. That's a very real plus, and I'd say that the shared-nothing architecture of PHP was great engineering choice.

Yes, the language is weirdly architected and oftentimes inconsistent. It can also be extremely productive, and many of its weird choices are extremely pragmatic. The security holes are pretty horrifying, though - the defaults should be much more locked down, and I've always been a bit mystified that they're not.
I'm downvoting you not because of your stance on Mosh, but because you're being, in the technical term: "A dick."
Another source of drama, woohoo. Also, how much effort did they go to to make such a simple page so unresponsive. Still harkening back to TC I see. The page is nearly completely unresponsive for a good 6 seconds while who-knows-what loads in. What the hell?

According to Chrome's Inspector it took 20.60s to load entirely. (And after the wait, they're not even using the Twitter widget properly as it's giving a 4xx error)
Interesting point, and I agree that PHP has some properties that make it easier for beginners to get started with (which doesn't necessarily make it the best language to learn with, but definitely an easy one). I wrote my first few programs in BASIC before I graduated to C. Like BASIC, PHP makes it easy to get something running quickly, and horrible to do anything more complex.

The problem comes in when people don't quickly figure out that the language that they started out in should not remain their primary language for any serious project.
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It's April's fool (Doroogh-e Sizdah in Iran).
who are you talking about?! in iran, government and people are two different things!

and I have no doubt that if this government get his hands on an atomic bomb, the world will be in a big trouble!

attacking iran is the best choice! hear it from an Iranian.
I should elaborate. Why do western folk always think everyone elsewhere is some stupid developing world idiot who would never be able to game the system the same way we game the system over here?
I posit that one of our modern "Things You Can't Say" is that the widely-held belief that the world would somehow be better if every single average Joe learned to program just might be totally bogus.

As was pointed out by djmdjm below, there are Real Consequences when amateur hour overflows into the real world. In many cases it simply would be better had many of these apps not been made by the unskilled - even if that means they hadn't been made at all.

What's so wrong about a barrier to entry that is effective against those who have not yet figured out what the fuck they are doing? We learned despite such barriers, did we not?
The main goal of the news web-crawlers isn't to turn a profit, instead they are doing their thing to provide search engines with the most accurate and recent news in the search results.
That's odd, because usually servers get owned from faulty wordpress/joomla instances. I rarely hear of web servers getting rooted via web apps run on python. I'm not really an experienced php dev myself, and when I installed joomla on my vm last year, it was rooted within the hour -- I was notified by a data center admin saying my vm was using an insane amount of bandwidth. I'm sure it was some script scanning for boxes with slightly old versions of joomla. I haven't had the same kind of bad luck installing python apps.
Most of them.

Power may be corrupting some of those who manage to get to the top, and some of those who get a majority of votes may not be the brightest, but most 1st world gov'ts are pretty honest. Not only because we have free media that is watching every step these people do and will make them resign at the smallest mistake.

But, if you think that "they" are that bad, then you can just become one of "them" and do it better. I would recommend your local Pirate Party to start.
If the clown who wrote that article had spent as much time programming, as he did writing that drivel...

You had some interesting points about pragmatism and emergent design, and then you had to go with this aggressive insulting bullshit. Come on, we can do better than that.
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I regularly, (all over this thread), see people swear that PHP is great for beginners. Everything in this article seems to indicate the opposite. You have to trip over PHP's poor design while trying to learn to program.

Outside of the wide availability of PHP servers for cheap, what makes PHP so great for beginners? With Ruby, Python, Go, hell, even JSP for the "instant", in-HTML effect, I just don't see PHP as some gloriously "easy" language to use.

On top of it, there are hundreds of thousands of PHP tutorials all across the Internet that just have poor, poor, poor suggestions and design patterns that lead to people storing passwords unhashed, or unsalted. Sure, it's not unique to PHP, but it's really, really easy to get wrong in PHP and that's painful for a beginner and it's hard to progress and mature as a PHP developer without an existing code base to learn from.

tl;dr: I'm not convinced is as great as many here make it out to be. (To note, the first thing I sold was written in PHP in highschool. Since then I've used JSP/J2EE stack/python/ruby and now am infatuated with Go, so my opinion is not simply based on group-hate for PHP)
I understand what you're saying, but it's also kind of begging the question. We can't calculate a standard deviation because temperatures are rising, but we also can't test if temperatures are unusually warm because we don't have a standard deviation?
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