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Yes Blobs are working, no I very much doubt work will stop (there is a bug open to switch to a levedb backend - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=679267)
"well yeah it sucks, but I know it sucks so its ok"

Sorry, but I really don't see how you got to that assumption. Can you enlighten me to what you are seeing that I'm not?
There are almost no "X killed my startup posts" at all. Indeed, there are very few "killed my startup posts" of any kind. So that means nothing about PHP. It means that people don't see a lot of benefit in publicly advertising failure and then flagellating themselves for their own choice of tools. People don't do that, they just quietly switch.

People do hear about the problems with PHP, when they are mentioned. It's good to have specifics available rather than just delivering some general subjective statement, which is why we get one article after another highlighting various screwups in the project itself.

You can use any Turing complete language to write programs. That sets an upper bound on how difficult it can be to do virtually anything. But this is hardly a defense of PHP. There are also principles of good engineering beyond "write something which seems to work for now in any way possible".
This is a topic that we're still hotly debating. Since we haven't yet been able to fully gauge the level of interest and the size of our potential market, it's hard to give a definite answer. But, we're very open to feedback.
In Africa, many homes do not have electricity but increasingly everyone has a cell phone. Prepaid cell phone minutes have become a defacto currency in many African countries. Africans are in many ways more acclimated with using privately issued digital currencies (such as M-PESA)...
The parent post I commented on stated a windows pc and I thought maybe a mouse was present. So I asked if there was a wheel on the mouse connected to the windows pc. Just that.
I don't see how this is anti-Wikipedia. But I suppose conflict sells, so linkbait (to be clear, linkbait on the part of Wired, not the submitter) titles like these are inevitable.

Also, for a lot of people, 'wiki' is simply short for 'Wikipedia'. That's unlikely to change at this point. I don't know what Ward can do to make a Federated Wiki (great name, BTW) achieve any kind of success with that kind of barrier.
CakePHP 2.x did a major rewrite of nasty parts and dropped support for PHP 4. It's actually very well done and much more consistent now.
Only if you assume peoples situation and desires are static and that their ability for forward planning is perfect and rational. I might not be that interested in going to Burning Man 6 month out, but as the date approaches and I hear about how a whole bunch of people I know will be there then all of a sudden I'm much more willing to pay.

Or at the time of the auction I'm unemployed and worried about paying rent, then I might only be able pay $100. Then three month later I'm offered a job with a great salary, and now I'm all of a sudden willing to pay $500-600.

No matter how you structure things, there will always be people whom are willing to pay more after the fact, and as long as there is a market someone will find a way to sell to the market.
This has nothing to do with bitcoin. Bitcoin is a completely separate currency with its own value.

This is just a digital solution to transmit existing currency.

A more apt comment would be that paypal (or any number of similar services) did this already.

In fact, though, none of these similar services have done anything close to this.

When you have 50% of the population using a digital payment solution for all of their money needs... then maybe you can make a comparison.
There's plenty of head-mounted gear they could use, but presumably they'd be more interested in a combination of innocuous and film quality.
As expected.

Even most pro-ACTA parties voted against to save their countries leaders from having to find another way out of this mess now that public opinion turned against it. Blaming the EU parliament is a relatively cheap and easy way to nullify their previous commitment (and signatures!), and one that won't result in US sanctions against individual member states.

It's basically a get-out-of-jail card for those countries that did a 180 and would no longer ratify ACTA despite signing it.
Nope, 2010. This was a sane resolution, authored by the Greens and other center-left parties, asking for more transparency and putting some limits and sanity checks on the contents of the treaty, and it didn't pass: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION...

I think the parliament did end up voting a similar resolution though.

Here's one earlier resolution that did pass, strictly about the lack of democracy and not the content of the treaty: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=MOTION...

There are a few more, but it's confusing because sometimes the votes are only on some paragraphs of the resolution. The paragraphs aren't easily cross-referenced, and I don't know if this kind of vote is final.
As a developer I have great respect for Fabien Potencier and his contributions to the PHP community. Sadly thoguh, I think he's done so in vain. You cannot fix what's infinitely broken.

* PHP may have evolved to support many new methods and features that is expected from a modern language, but mixing and mashing ideas and implementations from other languages in a semingly random fashion doesn't make a language good; only messy. It still and always will lack a proper philosophical design.

* PHP's ecosystem is far from healthy. It's flooded with outdated and/or badly written code, so it really doesn't matter if dependency management is good. Wordpress is proof of this, just look at the source.

* PHP is neither easy to learn or code (correctly). It's just so forgivable that you can do more or less everything wrong and still have a working application. Fabien, you should know this.

* PHP is a resource hog compared to the competition; even with the tiniest stack. I.e. running Node.js will use less then a third of the resources compared to a LAMP stack.

There will never be a "best language" to rule them all. Every situation have different needs. Sure, PHP have filled its purpose during the years, but I'm certain that we've hit peak-PHP. It's the IE of programming languages, and its slow death have already begun.
Ugh I hope this doesn't spawn another round of the meme that the porn industry is the first influencers on tech. I think the iPad, and the massive dckine of the studios prior to that, has put that claim to rest
That might be true, but it's a lot easier to do in PHP than Python for example
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Internet hipster facepalm.
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> I find it unbelievable that you (or anyone) pays any attention to the gender of a programmer you only met online.

I didn't mean paying conscious attention to the gender - I was thinking of automatic assumptions people make about others. It's natural to make assumptions about people; it's immoral to pretend they don't exist or to object to reducing their effects.

> I searched and couldn't find it. The closest I came is the name on github.

Steven is a masculine name.

> Why do they deserve credit as women? Who cares if they are women? Give them credit for doing something as a human, not for their gender.

I entirely agree, however that doesn't stop people from making incorrect and broad generalisations about groups of people who share characteristics that are entirely out of their control.

> Yes it is. The fact that you think it isn't is a discredit to your education.

'He' is the unmarked pronoun but it's still gendered (i.e. masculine). 'It' isn't gendered, but is also generally used for inanimate objects rather than people.

> And yet you can't even tell which it is despite me writing about gender. (And no, I'm not going to tell you.)

Haha, only because I thought you would get angry if I made any assumptions about who you are.

> I ignore gender for things that have nothing to do with gender. There are plenty of things (including online) where gender matters, but programming isn't one of them.

Like I said before, I think that's cool, even if I find it a bit unbelievable that you don't make assumptions about people you meet online.
A little off topic, but a friend of mine had a dinner conversation with Ward Cunningham and refactoring expert Ralph Johnson a few months ago and posted it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqGYoKvekik The video could have used some editing (shorter!) but has some interesting parts.
The shame is that nirvana dedicates so many hours of his week to bashing his former employer (and assuming tha JS experience with a few people is representative of an organization of thousands), so many years after he left. At some point you have to wonder: is a mind like this a faithful witness?
Actually, creating SMS bitcoin wallet is possible (however it won't be that easy to use). I will probably hack together SMS wallet support for easywallet.org . Meanwhile there is coinapult SMS wallet, but it is only for canada/US.
If you wanted to make someone do something for you, how would you do it?
Bonus points if they don't know you.
Enabling IPv6 on Amazon EC2
I'm not sure if it's exactly the same thing, but this sort of service has been available in Pakistan for a while now - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kL--YSnFPo
Forking does not lead to spooning. This sounds like it will quickly become an impenetrable rat's nest. Better to fight it out on the one true source, Wikipedia.
I feel for you :(

If people are so incompetent that they can't choose a decent host or install a recent PHP (or deploy on anything but mod_php) then there is probably nothing that package maintainers can do to rescue them, no matter how much they want to.

End users need more help but there are lines between "end user" and "needs to learn things" and "stubborn idiot". If you want to write and deploy web apps, it is your JOB to choose a halfway decent host, keep dependencies up to date and deploy with some appropriate technology!
Amazon has a really good immune system of that ejects toxic new hires back out to the world where they can't do more actual damage?
Scoble recommends using Facebook over Google+
I will try to find some pictures. I owned a sailboat in San Diego Bay for 20 years, and I must have lots of pictures with the ORB. I'll ask my Dad what the official name was.
Like in every other compiled language that has modules.
Yup, this was the last particle predicted by the Standard Model. In addition to not having any evidence that it existed, we also didn't know exactly how massive it was, or how likely it was to show up in high-energy collisions.

Unfortunately, the Standard Model still doesn't have a good explanation for how quantum mechanics and gravity work together, so we know it's not complete. But at least the particle menagerie seems to be full :)
But then you can't end people's careers when you catch them taking "bribes". Honestly, I can't see how it's any better. Now we just get to watch it happening but we still can't do anything about it.
Acta down, but not out, as Europe votes against controversial treaty
Read the thread, it isn't like his post went without responses.
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What was innovative? Copying other's stuff and integrating a browser into the OS?
Pay them money.
I'm really looking forward to the MaxCDN support, as our company uses it for most of our projects. Currently we've been manually doing all the optimisations and uploading and whatnot. Though to be fair, we're not using Node.js for any of our existing projects, but i started a new project this week using Node.js and something like this would be a godsend when it comes to scaling the application up.

Thanks for creating this.
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(Kenyan here)
I think that the fact that Kenya did not have such a large banking industry helped M-Pesa succeed. By the time the local banks realised that it threatened to eat into their business, it had become too big and popular to beat. We had the local banking association petition the Central Bank to introduce regulations on it, the cost of compliance to which would have made it a lot more costly than it is, and subject to a lot more bureaucracy. Luckily, the proposal did not go through.
You have obviously never used Google Apps Premium edition. It does the bits that actually matter to users. I havent looked after Exchange since the 2007 version but am well aware what it can do.
Where do they charge their phones? Are portable hand-powered generators common, like wind-up radios?
Even if the sales numbers translated to a 80%-20% laptop/desktop factual usage worldwide, and it doesn't, we wouldn't "all" be on laptops. Other than that being irrelevant to the fact a mouse is being used or not, much less what kind it is. Actually I am on a dual desktop and sometimes on a renderfarm, sometimes rendering content with parallax in it.
The Internet is already made of "rat's nests" like these. DNS records, BGP route tables, cross-domain embedding, all of these are pulling together information from lots of inconsistent sources to render a page in your browser, and it works pretty well.
The site:

http://sourcefilmmaker.com/

Wiki discussing the how tos:

http://sourcefilmmaker.wikia.com/wiki/Source_Filmmaker_Wiki
I don't think it's terrible, it's a simple JQuery plugin designed to do exactly what it's doing. However, I will say that this type of layout for the purpose of a tutorial isn't the best idea. It requires too much interaction, and IMHO a tutorial should be more of a passive experience.
>Sadly, I suspect in reality it was at least partly driven by fear of association with politically toxic subjects like SOPA/PIPA. Still, a win's a win.

Well, on the bright side, SOPA/PIPA and legislation like these are actually becoming toxic and politically nonviable. Legislations like these will keep popping up like whack-a-mole until they become toxic and seems like we're on our way to achieve that.
Professor Hawking lost a 100 dollar bet on this discovery. See the video on the bottom right.
>Windows is becoming irrelevant to the elite. It's a bizarre phenomenon given that MS is still dominant in the OS field that has been gaining serious traction for the last 3 or 4 years.

I think this is because IT is being moved out of the enterprise. I don't think it was ever a smart fit so more and more companies are moving to "off the shelf" solutions, SaaS, etc. The best programmers are going to startups or freelancing. The people still chugging away in big firms writing code are essentially the COBOL programmers of the late 90's: just trying to grab cash as long as it lasts.
No you dont host the Google Apps product locally - thats the whole point of it.
He's been known to, though I think he gets slightly more credibility for actually being a real scientist who understands things like evidence and falsifiability. He also has entrepreneurial experience and has worked a lot with Liberty, both of which are relevant to issues like this one.

Unfortunately, there are very few people with such a useful background serving as MPs in the House of Commons today, but an awful lot of people who are essentially career politicians and have never worked outside politics or closely related fields such as journalism.
I can imagine that this "nonsense" would have some pretty good use cases in live performances etc. Think webcam, erotic theatre shows etc.
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> I'd firstly say y=1 is the goal (the language is basically complete; you can add more around the edges,

Not your functions, not your plane, you don't get to define parameters.

> starting off awful and rapidly turning into a giant blob of band-aids :P

PHP has been completely rewritten at least twice.

> everything else is more productive after the initial setup hurdle~

Can you give a single example of something in Python that introduces greater productivity than PHP?

> and in all three cases other languages have done them better

> so I'm not sure why PHP having them since 2005 is supposed to be a good sign...

Now you're just being a pedant. The point is that it isn't 2005 and it's not 1978. It's 2012. Talking about what the capabilities of a language were almost a decade ago is useless.
I wouldn't pick on the example, but you've made me curious: how does it improve the speed of development to have array("a" => "green", "red", "blue") ?
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Solving problems is good. You can also appeal to people's passions or identity. Addictive also seems to work.

If you want to just solve a problem, you gotta understand the worst problems people have. Twitter and Facebook work because they have people on there, who others want to follow or friend. Video games appeal to raw passions, and can also be addictive.
I made a dumb HN link/article blocker based on the article title or URL too: http://diff.biz/

The interface is the query string. It's useful when the front page gets too enthusiastic about meaningless things.
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Youtube can already remove shakiness from videos pretty well: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2012/03/improving-video-a...

Panda: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mELK9xE17Bc
Panda-stabilized: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifpekKhlGmM
Personally, I wonder if enterprise BI will even exist in the next decade. I think corporate IT is on it's way out.
There are plenty of people writing Ruby and Python.

There is another reason, which is that some of PHP's design choices seem easy but make things harder down the line.
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Fib(36)

Python 2.7.2

def fib(n):
if n == 0 or n == 1:
return n
else:
return fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)

for i in range(36):
print "n=%d => %d" % (i, fib(i))'

python -c 20.69s user 0.06s system 99% cpu 20.807 total

Ruby 1.9.3
def fib(n)
if n == 0 || n == 1
n
else
fib(n-1) + fib(n-2)
end
end

36.times do |i|
puts "n=#{i} => #{fib(i)}"
end

ruby 11.44s user 0.03s system 99% cpu 11.507 total

I guess since benchmarks are not completely worthless, we should conclude that ubuntu doesn't keep up on ruby and uses 2-3 year old versions.

I wasn't accusing you of starting the pissing match.
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This looks like a website, even resembles new Google theme.
Your last requirement (CNAME) is the most important part of the answer. As long as you can do that, your platform choice isn't a nailbiter. Choose and start writing.

Your blog service should include RSS.

Wordpress is nice in that you have the option of them hosting it for now, then migrating to self hosted later if you want. Just because it's self hosted doesn't mean it has to be hosted at the same place that your company is hosted, so you still don't have to worry about you going down and your blog.

Here's the result of a little searching around ...

A comparison of services. Don't know if the comparison is valid, but you can just use it as a list. http://blog-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

Flickr supports these services, if you care: http://www.flickr.com/help/blogging/

Here's what the top 20 blogs use: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog_software

A long list of blogs. Doesn't say what they use, but you can sometimes find a "powered by" link on a blog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_blogs

Longer list, same comment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blogs
Holy mother of misleading titles.
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When I talked with Ward in 2005, he mentioned his vision of a Wiki had a continuum of pages where he said you could take a page and browse the different "directions" people had edited it to.
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When I visited the EP recently we were told the speaker just does an eyeball estimate from a show of hands when it's not close. Seemed pretty untransparent.
Google is a rats nest but you can eventually find what you want, I go to Wikipedia first.
This is the sort of thing I was thinking of when reading the Kill Hollywood RFS (http://ycombinator.com/rfs9.html).

Who says you need a huge budget to bring a great science fiction story to life? Who says you have to dumb down the story to recoup that budget through a wider audience?

Once you can make movies, complete with special effects, on a home computer with a small team and a small budget, the variety and depth of content is bound to explode. I can't wait to watch all the interesting new stories that emerge from this type of technology.
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I guess what I don't understand about all these "run $INTERPRETER in the cloud to avoid App Store restrictions" is that this seems like entirely too much effort to avoid one's choice of a $99 developer license or a jailbreak. I've personally been tooling around with HyperCard on my (non-jailbroken) iPad lately, which took about five minutes with Google, ten minutes with Xcode, and five more with the System 6 Finder to get installed.
Can anyone explain how it actually works?

I am guessing you give vodafone 10 dollars, they give you a txt with a random code
anyone with that random code and your number can request the 10 dollars to come off your account and onto theirs

but ...

What is the strength of the code ? What is the security around the transmission to your phone? It sounds bruce schneir might no like it
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Does it work? I clicked the link, filled in the survey, and don't seem to have an invite.
The ev1 was marketed as "sci-fi" and "advancing the human race". It used dark settings and scared consumers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g7cgUm7o9k). If you go for sci-fi don't go for scary dark moon pictures. Personally I link the moon surface pictures to the death star.

When the Playstation 3 was running commercials they used weird sci-fi shorts that were confusing and didn't show off the product. Also ps3 did not perform (sales) as well as the wii or xbox 360.

more examples: 5gum tv marketing, Hulu's alien marketing

I would be curious to see if this sort of marketing actually hurts sales.
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Is 'your friend' a virgin by any chance? It does sound like 'wishful thinking' more than a realistic proposition.

The idea strikes me as something only someone never having had a sexual relationship with someone they love could ever come up with, as I dare say the emotional connection between two persons having sex vastly outmatches any physical expertise when it comes to the satisfaction one gets from the act. 'Virtual sex' could never replace that, at best it could perhaps eradicate the need for prostitution.

Also it's not as if people having kids is just a by-product of having great sex ending in a contraception malfunction. People in general want kids, even turning to artificial insemination or adoption should they need to.

Why would this change in the extremely hypothetical situation of virtual sex being more satisying than real sex?
This free publicity was the best thing to ever happen to the Oatmeal.
I find the "organizations don't want to outsource the storage of their private data" an interesting one.
Do they think they can secure their email servers better than Google can?
Are they going to refuse to hand over data if requested by authorities?
As far as I know Google doesnt do anything more than say a spam filtering service like MessageLabs would do - i.e. index some text to see if it should be classified as spam / malware etc.
You can read their policies on this here
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=6...