alanstorm

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by alanstorm 11y ago
It means if you have a PHP script or application (Wordpress, Drupal, etc) on your server, and there's code in the script or application that uses one of the `pcre_` functions, and that the regular expression passed to that `pcre` funct
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by alanstorm 11y ago
> Has the experience remained the same? Yes and no. The PHP language and run-time continue to value backwards compatibility and, ultimately, a PHP application is still just a collection of PHP files sitting on a web server somewhere. I
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by alanstorm 13y ago
We're looking for a lawyer to help finish up our merger. The previous guy did 90% of the work and then stopped responding to our emails!!! This shouldn't take an experienced lawyer more than a few hours. Pay: $10
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by alanstorm 13y ago
One of the most damaging things in cultures where agreement is more valued than honesty is how it can sap the morale of your workers to the point where they turn into exactly the uncooperative super-negative people you were trying to avoid
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by alanstorm 14y ago
TL;DR; If you have the talent to do the sort of work these sorts of services require, then you have the ability to do it without them. Just my two cents here (with the caveat I could be talking out of my behind since I don't know these peop
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by alanstorm 15y ago
That's solid advice, but only follow it once a sense of trust and rapport has developed between you and the client. There's far too many things a potential client may not be telling you about the project, and it's incredibly hard for the in
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by alanstorm 15y ago
HINT: For the purpose of this hint we'll assume your script is a bash script. If you've exploited the setuid program to run your script, bash may execute with the elevated permissions, but any program bash runs will run with your permi
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by alanstorm 15y ago
I'm not sure how useful public shaming and griping are, but I do think it works on the iamayoungconsultantandnoonetalksaboutthis.com level. I'd have found the stories super useful as an insecure 25 year old "forced" into the freelance mark
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by alanstorm 15y ago
Put another way, republishing an otherwise unavailable CC-licensed/open-source-licensed work is explicitly respecting the author's wishes, the author that published it under that license. I doubt (but obviously don't know) Mark wanted to ex
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by alanstorm 15y ago
Run the numbers, calculate the percentage of your income lost, and just consider it another unavoidable cost of doing business. I imagine you don't like paying Paypal, Google Checkout, or merchant account transaction fees, but I also i
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by alanstorm 15y ago
File under: Unintended Consequences. Also, Postel's law could probably be tricked into admitting itself as an accomplice. 1. Browser based Javascript provides a location object for managing and accessing the current browser location, and t
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by alanstorm 15y ago
Anyone know if this is related to the Fuel CMS ( http://www.getfuelcms.com/ ) or are they separate projects?
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by alanstorm 15y ago
I can't comment specifically on the Fuel framework, but it's probably going to take years (if ever) for "the right" way to use namespaces to emerge among the PHP communities. There's been a decade plus of ingrained name-spacing by conventi
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by alanstorm 16y ago
You can't read Gruber in the same context you did five or six years ago. At this point he's an established journalisty blogger who depends on a network of sources, some of whom are within Apple Inc. That means, like most working journalis
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Nothing ever wins, pendulums just swing.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
It's probably a part of a longer term pricing strategy. It's hard to start charging "real" money (even $40/$50) for an application you were formerly giving away for free. People feel like you've taken something away. By charging a micro-
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Half of me says awesome, while the other half is slightly-creeped-out that scammers no longer need to stop at "nah, writing scraping scripts for bank websites would be way too much work!".
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I'm not speaking for Stallman of GNU here, this is pure conjecture based on too many years of following these discussions. The "problem" with public domain software, (and BSD/MIT) style licenses, is people can take that code, make changes,
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by alanstorm 16y ago
And lumberjack competitions.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
All true, but somehow it's comforting to know that this client and this developer deserve each other.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
No presumptions here, which is why an in-depth story would be so interesting.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
There's an interesting story to be told about what makes someone who's already a billionaire keep on in such a hyper-stressful job/career/calling when facing repeated life-threatening illnesses. We, of course, won't get that story, and wil
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by alanstorm 16y ago
A the risk of being tarred and feathered for pedantic behavior, the W3Schools doesn't post misinformation. They posted information that was accurate at the time, and then let is sit up there for 5-8 years as the state of the art improved.
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Hey, not a sidetrack at all, and I appreciate the link. At the risk of putting this back on discussion though, from the outside EBS looks like a separate, but complimentary product for EC2, which will further muddy the waters for someon
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by alanstorm 16y ago
When you "don't get it" do you mean for yourself, or for the market? If the former, you can stop reading, because for someone already up on EC2 and devops it doesn't make sense to insert a middle man. If it's the later, here's more to cons
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by alanstorm 16y ago
If you haven't been paying much attention to EC2 until now, getting your head around the pricing structure, what plan makes sense, and the whole "You have a VM but no permanent disk" thing can take some time. PHPFog's value proposition wou
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Could someone forward me the part of the article where it explains how an up and coming band can use a time machine to go back to an era where they can use the Recording Industry Promotion Machine to become a national act, such that they'll
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by alanstorm 16y ago
I don't know if it will help you understand, but most of the time it comes down to trust. It's the rare client that will come out and say "I can't pay you because my cashflow is off this month, and I don't know if it's ever coming back". I
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by alanstorm 16y ago
You were over qualified for the position. They didn't want a programmer, they wanted someone with known Drupal experience, who could hit the ground running, and wouldn't fall back on writing new software to solve a problem that could be qui
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by alanstorm 16y ago
Video production of a live event can be pretty easily automated. It's not no work , but once you're setup to do it it's pretty simple. Creating an accurate transcript of a live event is time consuming, and "hard" (well, it's tedious, wh

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