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> If they liked PHP so much, they would have used it.

Or they got tired of being bullied by people like you.
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In response your undefined edit: Can you point out my lies?
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I think this could lead to a lot of interesting possibilities but I'll focus on one.

Lets say you're on Wikipedia and for example want to know about the assassination of J.F.K, the Wiki article contains most of the stock facts and so on, but lets say you want to know about the really crazy and out there conspiracy theories of Hoover and aliens and so on, a federated system would allow people to set their own page up and you can continue through to it. The sort of content that sends most Wikipedia moderators into catatonic seizures indexed and available.

There's plenty of other uses out there, I just think it's an interesting point that it'll allow anyone with enough time on their hands to create an archive of what they think is relevant as a counterpoint to what someone else thinks is relevant. Don't like the standard descriptor? Normally you'd have to fit a wiki mod, fork it off and have it as a counter point.
I have no short term advice, sorry.

An observation: given your description of recent history, it might be best for you if you ran your own business. In other words, create your own job. Maybe that's freelancing, maybe running a service, or maybe something not even internet or tech related.

Maybe iOS apps will get you that, if you're lucky or really good, but I think most people don't make much on apps. If you do, great, not trying to discourage you.
Jeff Atwood wasn't the first to say that, by a long shot. PHP devs have been saying it since Rails made Ruby popular. That it's 8 years on, and Atwoods rehashing old arguments is telling.
Agreed. Facebook signin -> barf.

If they want early adopters, they shouldn't rely on facebook signin.
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Of course, but the question at that point becomes: How do you sustain those steady profits?

DEC was hugely successful in its day, but was a failure in the 90s because they couldn't manage the transition from minicomputers to PCs.
If some random person on the street compliments me about something, I'm immediately suspicious. It's what used car salesmen do.

Complement someone when you're introduced, or meet for some purpose. Complementing people you pass on the street seems pointless.
I agree. I looks very much like Android ICS on a different color scheme... very much like Google's web-apps
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That would be their opportunity cost, which falls under the general umbrella term "cost".
Parent just said 'virtual sex', not 'virtual sex with strangers'. It could provide a better experience with the same person you already share a deep emotional connection with.
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The article describes this as being like a fork. For example, choosing between OpenOffice and LibreOffice, or ffmpeg and libav. Both are the current version, but with different ideas and implementation.

If two groups are editing a book about Python (for example) on a wiki, they might have different ideas about how a particular concept should be explained. They fork that, and both versions can exist in parallel, even exchanging ideas when suitable.
If the problem is having the knowledge hosted in one place only, controlled by "one" person only, the solution should be to decentralize, not make everyone able to copy it everywhere. Plus, this solution seems to add more work to the contributors, since you'll need to review each fork/edit and choose which to merge or not.

On the other hand, a wiki working like a P2P network, where everyone hosts the same version and edits are automatically propagated accros the web would solve the "problem" without adding more job on contributors.
I've been waiting for this since 1996! After ten years without any sequel I asked Adam in an email if I could make a free tribute sequel since it had appeared to become abandonware and got this reply:

"Hi,
We are planning to make it but haven't had an opportunity to start it. Maybe in a couple years.."

A few years later it seemed really puzzling, and frankly I thought he was in denial that the sequel would ever be made. So excited to see this finally come to fruition!
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Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong. I can see you posted this without doing so much as a single google search pointing your browser to "cakephp.org".

I am interested in hearing skrebbel's response to this question however (what makes cake so horrible).
This just in: "Stephen Hawking on Higgs: 'Discovery has lost me $100'"

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But not in the context of a startup which is the context I was talking about your right a lot of the big firms on the FTSE will offer BUPA or somthing similar.
Aren't those the same thing? How are they different?
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Companies using Microsoft SQL (and sometimes requiring the same from others, which is very odd) are often viewed as somewhat clueless. I think for business people, Microsoft has some positive aura (I don't really know why), but everyone else just tries to stay mostly away from them.
Cambridge has an elected someone with common sense, an understanding of issues that are relevant and important to British industry and society as a whole?

I know where I'm moving to then.
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small enough to have offline on your phone, as several apps do.
I'll admit I'm not very familiar with the original draft proposal and I appreciate the intentions and the desire to make it a bit more accessible to pragmatic people but please indulge me on a little rant here:

I could not dislike the 'my-' prefix any more. Can we please as an industry of professionals decide to talk about things without having to baby talk it into a who's-on-first routine? Talking about variables in the first person possessive is difficult when the 'person' we are talking about owning it is an abstract block of code. In this proposal it is 'author defined' but really when I read your code, It is yours… and now it's mine… or maybe it's ours. Or perhaps it belongs to that block of code. What doesn't change is that it's a variable (or property).

I know that's probably a minor point but it annoys me.

Secondly, I think the $() syntax needs to be weighed against the cost of having nesting there. Is $ not enough to indicate a reference? I guess the idea is to use that to provide a default but I don't like having to always type out the parens for it.
anyone else thinks they'll be building a market around this too?

buying/selling models, scenarios, props... seems like another jackpot for Valve
Not really surprising given the direction that Russa has been heading under Putin. With few exceptions free press is gone in the country. Pervasive Internet censorship is the next logical step in locking down power.
seems like a good idea.. considering how much time we spend sitting ... in a typical day
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You're going to need to drop a zero off of that asking price if you want to part with your domain. Why do you think it's worth close to twenty thousand dollars?
Oh I assure you Ticketmaster is the 800 lb gorilla in the room in several European countries.
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There is no real protection against fraud at the moment, the operator Safaricom is fighting to block conmen from the system hence the push for subscriber registration
PHP is really a framework. It includes builtin routing, builtin request parsing, builtin templates, etc. All very tightly integrated. And it is definitely not just an interpreter or library.

And a lot of what you are listing as "just works" are misfeatures which break things and make life unnecessarily hard down the road. They are time bombs, because everything will seem OK up front and the problems won't occur to you until they are already serious and chronic.

There IS routing, it is just implicit, magical routing performed by the server by inspecting a filesystem (e.g. the same filesystem where you have code, databases, password files, configs, etc.) Exposing my internal project organization publicly as a grody looking URL scheme that will become enshrined in all my links? Oh boy!

I don't WANT everything magically parsed by default, regardless of whether I need it for this request. This must happen when and how I specify or the tool is useless to me. Also: it is not a POST body, it is a request body. What do you call the body of a PUT? (And this kind of mis-education is another PHP misfeature)

I don't WANT random mistakes like leaving empty files to pass silently. I want bad code to fail early so I can easily detect the presence of a problem, and locate it. There is nothing worse than silent failure. If you think that silencing errors "just works" then you have your head in the sand. Don't think that users don't notice when a site is broken.

You can use a builtin framework which behaves inappropriately by default and then rewrite later, but why would you actively choose to do this? I think that most people do not choose to do it, because they just don't know. That is why this topic keeps coming up.

It is nice to nurse people along, but it is not nice to require them to nurse your tool along continuously because of all its broken behavior. Their time is better spent working on their own code rather than nursing yours. So perhaps other frameworks could somehow do an even better job of nursing users along, and those specifics are worth discussing. But that doesn't mean the right answer is to hook people on PHP's builtin framework.

And by the time you dress up PHP with a third party framework and other tools to make it fit for use, which you can certainly do, it is absolutely not easier than frameworks in other languages.
sounds like a worse alternative to http://plug.dj
Unless your blog is core to your profitability right now, seems like you are overthinking it.

Don't be held back by indecision. Pick something like Wordpress.org and move forward!
This wasn't a response to Jeff Atwood's article. It was a response to all the articles, with Atwood's being the "straw."
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Is the value purely stored in the SIM? ie does this all work without any form of cellular connectivity, or is there some sort of synchronization over cellular.

How do they deal with rogue agents? Presumably a rogue agent can claim you have handed over a large sum of money but it would take a while to discover they have lied.
Data is not dishonest and benchmarks are not dishonest. What is dishonest is this tendency to cherry-pick only the case which is convenient to you, as you have done here. If you want to talk about Ruby performance vs. Python then you will have to dig into something like the site linked previously, which has many different benchmarks run on a uniform testbed rather than a single cherry-picked case run in whatever way you felt like.
I've never heard of a technical exploit compromising the M-Pesa infrastructure. Social engineering cons are on the rise, though (like sending a dummy text telling you that someone sent you money, then calling and requesting that you send it back to correct the error. If you fall for it, and have money in your account, you send them your money). Those are much harder to police, though a proposed requirement that all phone numbers sold be registered to an individual with ID may reduce these in the future. Short of sharing your PIN, it's hard to think of a way to reach into one's account and steal money.
> "Better than 95% of the PHP jobs out there are horrible scut work for companies that don't give a shit about quality or decent development"

Show me your data? You couldn't be more wrong about the companies using PHP. The last startup I worked at in San Francisco, well funded and very successful, used PHP. I was approached by many well known names all using PHP, most of them exciting new companies working with edge technologies for practicality, which is a trait that goes great with PHP).
Did you notice that most articles on Wikipedia, although mostly 'correct', are very dry? And this is because they try to be as 'correct' as possible. But it brings to a point where some (most??) users can't use it comfortably anymore. Think children, who are trying to find some basic information about the subject they are interested in. My 8yo recently has gone through the 'dinosaurs' stage. Drawings, books, stories, films. You think she found this fascinating: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur ?? Nope. Here comes in the federated version, with 'alternative' of the story. Tailored for the 4-10yo audience. Is it less 'correct'? Perhaps. But useful nonetheless.
That is a very interesting article, I love to see the innovation in these scenarios. I also kept clicking around on articles there, it seems national geographic has some very good/interesting articles. I particularly enjoyed this one involving pay as you go solar power, for lights and phones: http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/04/17/pay-as-yo...
Other than the scrolling tutorial, how is this better than http://mixlr.com?
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If that is the case, can't CK (and other comedians) find a neutral venue (or a venue that is not already on Ticketmaster's list)?

Yes, that's what happens if you're still small. Now what happens if you're a mega-rock star and what to have a gig with 10,000+ people? Those venues are locked up.

can't a company buy/build a venue

Where? Which city/country? If you do that (which'll cost a fortune in up front costs), that only helps the artist in that location. What happens to the rest of their tour when they go to other cities? They have to go to Ticketmaster then.
Agreed. Github is popular even though git itself is obtuse.
The "scroll down" text isn't visible here either. Full-screen Chrome, 1440x900.
In general I find parallax scrolling to be an absolutely infuriating user experience.

Very low FPS, jerky, and I have to repeatedly stress out my index finger spinning the scroll wheel.
What doesn't "get the job done"?
Yeah. Funniest thing of the whole situation, if true, is that it's been done by people who are trying to measure social influence.
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Probably been asked a million times. Actually, I've only now joined the hn after ages of trolling -- just to ask this.

Suggestions to ensure I receive compensations due after leaving US employer.

(p.s. Am a foreign (South African) who completed work for US company)
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Could this be layered on top of the current Wikipedia through browser plugins? And how would discoverability work in the context of 10,000 current versions of a wiki page? It's hard enough when there's 30 different forks on github.

edit: federated search, federated social? How would the system prevent search gaming and social gaming?
No attempts, just plain facts: a reminder of those, who took their fair share in contributing to such a scientific achievement but were discriminated negatively compared to their "western equivalents" only for being born in a non-western country.

The cited document (did all the downvoters also take their time and actually read the TDRs and papers in detail??? Or are they just ignorant sheep?) is a rare case of putting the facts on the ground down in a written and approved document, despite being taboo in an organisation touting "equal opportunities" and such policies.

No downvotes will change the situation I warn about above, quite to the contrary: may my previous comment serve as a warning to all non-westerners at CERN for the time being.
I think you missed the nuance in #2. Yes, you can write esoteric code in any language, but few languages actively encourage it like PHP.
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I really liked this stuff. I am commenting just to mention that my "free association" response to the two slashes together was "[nazi] SS." I think it looks nice but that just popped into my head. Kudos on the awesome rebranding proposal in any case!

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Is this a joke? I made it pretty clear, and you know that is what I responded to. Quoth you:

>PHP's most ardent critics have little hands-on experience with PHP, itself
The text of a large percentage of the current version of English Wikipedia, without discussion pages, is that small.
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Maybe it would be more interesting to overlay the image of your sex partner with something else. Hm, I am sure live instruction manuals will be bestsellers too (even though nonsensical, but the things people buy...).

Or what if the computer would be better than humans at detecting real arousal? No more faking it in the bed room. The sky might fall in?
I'm pretty sure this site offers escrow, so nobody is going to lose their bitcoins just like that...
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By creating stuff that people find useful.

Also I am less convinced than others that Microsoft is flopping on everything. Azure is certainly a good start for example.
Seems like it's not "live", so you can post tracks and people can listen later. You don't need to be doing both at the same time.
>Are they going to refuse to hand over data if requested by authorities?

At least they'll know the authorities are requesting the data...
How did my comment appeared on a different article..
I remember this game! I made countless levels messing around in the editor, it was really the most intuitive level editor I've ever used.
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This. Exactly this.

It's why alcohol makes social stuff easier - lowered inhibitions.

Remember nothing bad will happen if you just tell people what you think. Especially if it's positive. I promise. It won't be weird.

In fact, I've gone so far as making this a daily habit: http://swizec.com/blog/can-you-pay-one-compliment-to-one-str...
Exactly, you just need to reduce the friction level to a certain point. Saying it requires it's own web server sounds like a chore, but Mac OS X comes with a web server built in. You could in theory run your own local Wiki. Or someone clever could sell cheap instances powered off Amazon/Google/Heroku/cheap VPS host with a custom web frontend that does the heavy lifting.

TL;DR good companies make life easy for people who want it without hassle.
The key is to make the bribes matter less, by limiting the size and scope of government's power.
Can't remember the last time I payed for a theme. Especially since they look great on a screenshot but often turn out irritating in use.
Since we have free accounts on app engine, heroku etc... and even gdrive or dropbox and so on... wont it be easy for someone to write a simple web app or ipad app or something like that allows the masses to run their own wiki's without being technically sophisticated.
To an end user the process could be as easy as install app from chrome webstore... specify some minimal data... and you have an app engine account hosting your tiny wiki. If tomorrow you choose to move it heroku, it would as simple as a button click and registering on heroku.
A link to the draft in github is in the article so fork, send a pull, suggest away. I would suggest a read through the variables draft and a search on hn and www-style list to see the previous confusion caused by using not just the word variable, but the prefix var- and non-paren form you suggest.
I've technically made $millions in transactions on web sites built with PHP, and I've never had to confront multi-threading.
No value is stored in the SIM, the transaction record and balance is stored in Safaricom's servers. Agents have a registration number prominently displayed, and all transactions are immediately confirmed by SMS to both parties. I think agents also need deposit a (significant) amount of money to get registered. Daily transactions for individual accounts are capped at 70000 shillings (about 900 dollars), so is the balance in the account. It would be difficult to carry out fraud of any significant scale with the system.
I am personally glad that techcrunch chose to highlight the fact that Adam is a single dad. Often in our industry we glorify and highlight the college lifestyle of a bro-grammer. It is refreshing to read the experiences of a developer that has a life outside the domain of software development, and discusses their attempt to be creative, perform, and possibly innovate. This I think is a healthier approach for a population that will ultimately age, marry,
and possibly have children. A population that, as they age, will ultimately struggle to further realize a desire to stay creative, productive, and relative in youth centric world without forgoing a healthy family life-balance.
I was disappointed to find out this was the 1993 MSDOS game Jetpack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpack_(video_game)), not the 1983 Jetpac from Ultimate Play The Game (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpac). Probably reveals something about my age...
What the heck are they listening to?
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