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Trending Tech News: Feedback please
1 points by lucasoman 14y ago|0 comments
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by lucasoman 15y ago
Well maybe you're right. Since the author openly offered his contact information, maybe the best way to resolve the situation is to discuss the matter with him directly and privately. I wish you both success.
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by lucasoman 15y ago
I understand that it is frustrating to you to feel that someone may have been inspired by some aspects of your project. However, I think it's important to consider a few things for perspective: 1. Your web app is close to, if not already, d
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by lucasoman 15y ago
I think a feed would be too high-volume. But you can get topic updates from @TECHNOSPLODE on Twitter.
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by lucasoman 15y ago
I wouldn't be opposed to posting a dynamic list of feeds on the about page. To answer your parenthetical question: not very well. Since articles are sorted based on the weight of their feed, and since I only show the first few articles for
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My project, updated: Trending Tech News. Feedback appreciated(technosplode.com)
46 points by lucasoman 15y ago|20 comments
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New trending tech news site smartly filters headlines(technosplode.com)
3 points by lucasoman 15y ago|0 comments
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by lucasoman 16y ago
... and business blogs.
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by lucasoman 16y ago
People don't comprehend how insecure the Internet is. They take for granted that their information will remain private unless they explicitly wish to share it publicly. This may be naive, but ideally this is how things ought to be. The reas
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by lucasoman 16y ago
But, for the love of god, think of the children!
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Interestingly, it's a popular viewpoint in the deaf community (at least here in the USA) that deafness is not a handicap at all and, in the opinion of a minority, is in fact an advantage over those who are hearing.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Aside from the obvious reasons, this is also great because it allows the deaf to work in a deaf-friendly work environment; everyone or most there probably sign. Much of a deaf person's life is spent watching, in silence and isolation, as th
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Finally, this makes sense of Ozzie Osbourne.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Thanks for this! Just installed on my Droid.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
I think the most conspicuous spin on the site is repeatedly calling the browser "the most important piece of software on your computer." Google has made it very clear that they intend to move computer use off of the desktop and into the clo
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Um, why wouldn't they want to track traffic to their own website? I don't think my mom will be looking at the variables in the query string. As for the actual information on the site, it's very even-handed and doesn't seem to favor one brow
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by lucasoman 17y ago
My cure for that is putting my .vimrc on my site; then, from a foreign machine, I just do: wget -O ~/.vimrc http://lucasoman.com/vimrc And just like that, I'm in my comfort zone. Of course, this doesn't cover plugins and such, but I don't
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by lucasoman 17y ago
That's the situation I find myself in: a developer stuck with PHP. In response to the first bit, a friend observed that Warnock applies.
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A Different Way: Traits in PHP(lucasoman.blogspot.com)
15 points by lucasoman 17y ago|7 comments
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Why the downvotes? It's a superficial glance at SQL injection fixes with little explanation or education. Just like you can't put a novel in a comic-strip, you can't explain SQL injection security with a single block of code.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
So if you want comic-strip security, just go to this site. Perfect.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
yawn
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Yes, I understand the business side. But I studied Computer Science in school. I take pride in my work, and I regard an expertly-forged piece of code as a work of art. It's not simply a means to an end, and, even if sometimes I complain a l
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Fixed, thanks for pointing that out. And as "the guy who built Digg.com for $10/hr", that's all the feedback you'll give me?!
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Sorry; it wasn't meant to be attention grabbing. It was more out of frustration, I suppose.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
I'm not complaining about what features PHP has. In fact, I was never that annoyed that PHP didn't have lamdas or closures until now. My problem is that it wasn't implemented _correctly_. If you're going to implement a feature, do it right
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by lucasoman 17y ago
Exactly! I'm not interested in link bait. I'm just really depressed after I finally made the realization--just last night--that the language I've been using for years is going nowhere but down.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
My biggest interest in PHP is job-related. I work for a large travel website whose software is all OO PHP. If it weren't for that, I'd probably be in Perl-, Ruby- or Python-land.
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by lucasoman 17y ago
And that's where PHP truly fails. On the surface, it appears to have many nice, advanced features. But they're implemented so poorly. They're not thorough about use cases or testing.
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PHP Is A Husk(lucasoman.blogspot.com)
13 points by lucasoman 17y ago|44 comments

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