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   by leftnode 15y ago

   That title made it sound like a startup profitably fell apart. As in, the team dissolved, but they all made a lot of money doing it.
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   And I think that is warranted. It's unprofessional and sloppy to not write automated tests, and developers who are unprofessional should be called out on it. The problem is, in my experience, I've tried your first line and it just doesn't r
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   Right? "Here sir, I made you your favorite coffee." "But I wanted to try something different this time." "Ok, well you'll have to pay for both."
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   How on earth is this upvoted to the front page? Flagged.
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   And, Play! just joined Typesafe, the company behind Scala. I definitely think Play! is here to stay.
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   To be the be-all, end-all company that builds products for other software businesses.
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   Ask HN: Best practices for storing API key's in a database

   10 points by leftnode 15y ago|1 comments
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   I'm the exact opposite. I used custom built Linux desktops for years. Switched to a Linux laptop and never looked back.
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   by leftnode 15y ago

   I frequently fall victim to this and I've gone through considerable effort not to. One example: at my previous job, our ecommerce site had individual templates for each product. We only had around 20 products, but I came from a job where yo
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    I can guarantee you SpaceX has a very extensive onboarding stage with their customers, but I love how they have a no-bullshit pricing guide. http://www.spacex.com/falcon1.php#launch_and_placement Want placement on that rocket? 10.9 millio
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    PHP5.4 also has the short syntax array initializer: $array = [1, 2, 3]; Edit: While PHP still has it's fair share of issues, a lot of the same complaints people had 5-8 years ago aren't valid, and it probably has no more or less od
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    Unless the management bought a general scheduling system and not one specifically made for the restaurant business, then this is the fault of the software developers for building a system without doing the appropriate market research first.
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    PHP already has this built into it - http://us.php.net/alternative%20syntax - just use it.
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    Is it just me or are there a lot of errors in this article? Scott Chabon? I wonder if they intentionally did that so people would fork the article and fix it.
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    Show HN: Accthub Very Alpha Beta(TM) Just Launched(leftnode.com)

    1 points by leftnode 15y ago|0 comments
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    I appreciate all of the responses, it's great to know that other developers feel this way too. I also appreciate the links to get better. Really loving it. Thank you!
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    I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist(leftnode.com)

    291 points by leftnode 15y ago|178 comments
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    What's a good solution then? Have code reviews where the newer developers have to get their changes approved by older developers?
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    I don't think he was, he was pointing out the engineering prowess of Facebook. Essentially, if they can write something as complex as HipHop, they surely could figure out how to properly delete photos.
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    I get mine through DNSimple. I'm sure they're a reseller for another company, but $20 a year for a single domain SSL and $100 a year for wildcard.
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    Introducing Accthub(leftnode.com)

    2 points by leftnode 15y ago|1 comments
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    Over-committing seems like a bad idea, especially from a site preaching Zen and minimalism. You'll stress yourself out, burn out trying to finish all of your accomplishments, and probably to lackluster work on each of them. The opposite is
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    The biggest thing php.net needs is moderation on the comments. There are some 10+ year old comments that are just wrong now. Cleaning that up and moderating a comment before it is posted would be great.
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    It does depress me somewhat when I see people writing incredibly insightful or great blog posts on another company's blogging platform. I'd live in constant worry the company could fold up shop one day and your posts would be gone (unless y
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    Of course, you can have an intermediary staging system set up so you continuously deploy to it first, and if everything looks good, then deploy to production.
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    And sometimes it's useful to engage a new audience with an older, but useful, article.
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    Yup, if you have to work with old iSeries servers, or just about anything dealing with old retailers in eCommerce, you've probably touched it one time or another. Fortunately, the recode program makes it easy to switch between different enc
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    The problem is that PHP is going through growing pains a 15+ year old language should have fixed years ago, but didn't. Now there's too much atrocious code out there that would break with updates to PHP. I firmly believe PHP.next has to dec
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    Time and time again I see these articles, and time and time again, people just don't listen. If you are technically inclined enough to run a website, take a day (I promise that's how long it will take) to learn to configure a Linode instanc
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    by leftnode 15y ago

    What a completely horrible way to interview and speak to people. No career plans or vision Why would this matter to the interviewer? I just can't get over how ridiculous of an answer he provides. Why would he care what my career plans and