Expression Engine is just a bunch of... huh?? It's not bad, but anything other than what they give you can be a pain in the ass. CI in general was always sorta good but shoulda been better.
Magento has clearly been something that redefined PHP applications. The 1.x branch is going to go down as some of the least maintainable software ever written, but it was bad in a very productive way. 2.x (which you'll probably be seeing in a/. ad in the next few weeks before the conference) has been thoroughly refactored and presents plenty of great new maintainability features.
On top of all that, the Magento core is actually very secure. There have been a few security patches, and of course warnings about third-party extensions, but the core itself has little to no record of massive vulnerability.
As if there weren't a bunch of free tools already?
I think anyone serious about making money is going to be either invested in a proper professional package, or has devoted to Blender et al. If Pixar wants some space here, it's simply because they want young talent to use their stuff.
I guess the end result is, if you are young and want to maybe work for Pixar someday, learn this software, that way they won't have to train you and you're in.
Yeah, I was waiting to get to the "onerous" part, but I didn't see it. They might have well just said:
Alamo seeks relief on the grounds that the Order: (1) is stupid.
But, of course it will go somewhere, because they filed it, and as it says in their petition, "venue is proper" (5th Circuit) because they are from Texas. I wonder how much money they are getting paid to essentially file this suit as a proxy.
Well think about it, now you won't have to reach all the way into your pocket to grab your phone if you want to know what time it is. Genius, isn't it?
Killing people for bringing blankets and beds to kids, that's cool. Killing journalists, that's cool. Terrorizing locals, that's cool. Attacking schools, that's fine? Weddings none of that shit.... that's it... huh. To each his own, I guess.
There's the newish game called Besiege. There's a video on you tube of this giant robot someone built. It has fire coming out of its anatomy. It's fucking hilarious, but it's also pretty bad-ass.
I just don't get people that don't think it's awesome (my grandmother excluded).
You realize that prices are water are reflected in where that water is used, right? You can't just say "well now! Livermore is thirsty and we need some of that sweet H2O! Let's just buy some farms in Modesto and we'll have all the water we need!"
It takes 3 years for your first crop of almonds and 8 before the tree is delivering anything like commercial quantities. These trees have decades of work invested in them and the posts suggestion of ripping out the crop is stupid.
You've never grown anything for commercial profit. To the folks who do, it is most certainly "not stupid" to rip out your crop and replace it with something that would make you more money. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the article, but if you grow things, and the things you currently have in the field don't provide as great a profit as something else, it doesn't matter what the crops are, you are going to replace your crops with something more profitable. Done.
I recall very well a weekend where my dad and I took chainsaws to hundreds of nice sized (4-5" trunk) retail nursery shade trees to make space for new ones.
"Can't you get anything for all these? Seems like a $600 tree could do somebody a lot of good instead of turning it into mulch."
"No, I can't get anything for these. It will cost more money in labor to sell these than I would get back. Also, I can save a few thousand in mulch by making it myself."
Responded above before I saw this. But this may totally be the case.
I don't think non-competes are entirely unethical. Their premise makes sense, but the gray areas are where lawyers err on the wrong side of the morality spectrum. If an employer isn't willing to make changes to a contract to remove those nasty gray areas that make non-competes absurd, you should be grateful for not signing yourself up for disaster.
At this point, I imagine many employers don't even realize the non-compete clauses are in their contracts. They just downloaded it from buy-a-generic-contract.com and told the HR person to hand it out to new hires.
The last two times I was given a non-compete to sign (Colorado), I stood up and addressed the issues I saw with it.
The first one was reviewed by a co-worker's legal buddy. There was a lot of boilerplate, but there were also certain components that were totally unenforceable and unreasonable. A couple people signed it, but the majority of us refused. What is the employer going to do, fire everyone?
The last one was a completely reasonable non-compete. In my case, my work is fairly niche, and the number of people in Denver that are skilled is very few. If we decide to part ways, it could force me to either move or take up a new niche for the next 18 months or whatever. That part isn't so great as I don't want to move or necessarily take up a new niche. I spoke to the employer and we were both happy to agree to amend the contract to nullify the nastiest teeth.
Just because you are given a non-compete clause to sign doesn't mean you aren't allowed to discuss it in detail with your employer. They certainly should have the right to protect their business, and as an employee you understand that. You certainly should have the right to continue working after parting ways, and an employer will understand that.
If you talk to them about it, I'm sure you'll be surprised at the amount of flexibility they are willing to give.
You're aware that those motors would run for 200,000 miles driven by an irresponsible teenager that never changed the oil, right?
That certainly aren't the most power motors ever made, but they are remarkably reliable. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see components replaced with plastic and still perform to spec. Sure, not for another 200,000 miles, but certainly longer than 10 milliseconds.
The suburbs around Denver have a lot of the same names of streets that exist in the city core road grid.
North/South streets will usually be ordered alphabetically and with a theme. Plant names, city names, historical names, etc. This is great, it makes a lot of sense because you know if you are on Ivy then you know the next block over is Holly.
Now, in the suburbs, they decided to do away with a grid road system and instead went with semi-random twists and curves and such. The grid is gone, but the names of the streets remain the same. On top of this, you have several streets with the same name, differing only on the suffix as you mentioned. Ivy Street, Ivy Lane, Ivy Road, Ivy Avenue, Ivy Court, etc. So while the guys in the city decided that putting Ivy next to Holly next to Jasmine etc. the folks that laid out the streets in the suburbs also thought that was a great idea, so good that they made everything intersect with everything unpredictably.
Check out this guy! His infrared vision allows him to see road stripes through several inches of slush and ice. You should be a fucking movie star you godsend from beyond.
What is "learning"? Is that running through some prewritten bits to get some calendar application working... you know, as an abstract concept you then "know". Go through that in two days and then go back to your day job doing whatever it is.
Then fast forward six months. "Oh yeah, I wanna do some more of that coding I learned! I got this sweet idea for an application!"
"... wait, shit... what was the syntax for that again?"
"... I know the class I need is here somewhere... "
etc. etc.
You certainly did a great job of "learning" that language in two days, right?
My point is that it is not possible to "learn a programming language" in two (or a few) days. If you use a few programming languages in your day to day job, then yes, you can explore another language and get the general idea in a day or two. But then you go right back to not using it.
You can't learn a programming language unless you use it.
Unfortunately, regulating greed doesn't work. You have to fix the problem. You have to have a society of people that aren't greedy. Good luck with that!
"We're greedy! Let us run the show! We know what's best!"
"No, you are providing a valuable service and doing a shitty job of it. We're here to make you do a better job."
"Oh, ok! That's fine, we want to do a better job. Just know that it will make our service more expensive."
Running the last mile, you're going to need to ask some people for permission to plug your things into their things. For some mediums, there might be a bunch of people you need to ask permission of. For other mediums, there might be fewer (or possibly zero) other people you need to ask permission of.
As long as someone else is allowed to permit or deny anyone who wants to plug their things into something, there *may* be a monopoly. Is it technically possible that a monopolistic organization can act upon the utmost ideal of "good-faith"? Of course. Likely? It's tough to prove otherwise.
I think there *are* some solutions out there that involve running the last mile without having to ask all sorts of people of they'll let you use their plugs. I agree with you. I just don't see it on the horizon.
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Why are you not using Zend OPCache? Let's go, time to migrate beyond 5.3.
I think I've discovered your problem. It seems that the code you write serves no purpose.
If your goal is to write code that serves no purpose, PHP is not for you. You might prefer KAREL.
I have worked extensively with both.
Expression Engine is just a bunch of ... huh?? It's not bad, but anything other than what they give you can be a pain in the ass. CI in general was always sorta good but shoulda been better.
Magento has clearly been something that redefined PHP applications. The 1.x branch is going to go down as some of the least maintainable software ever written, but it was bad in a very productive way. 2.x (which you'll probably be seeing in a /. ad in the next few weeks before the conference) has been thoroughly refactored and presents plenty of great new maintainability features.
On top of all that, the Magento core is actually very secure. There have been a few security patches, and of course warnings about third-party extensions, but the core itself has little to no record of massive vulnerability.
As if there weren't a bunch of free tools already?
I think anyone serious about making money is going to be either invested in a proper professional package, or has devoted to Blender et al. If Pixar wants some space here, it's simply because they want young talent to use their stuff.
I guess the end result is, if you are young and want to maybe work for Pixar someday, learn this software, that way they won't have to train you and you're in.
Yeah, I was waiting to get to the "onerous" part, but I didn't see it. They might have well just said:
Alamo seeks relief on the grounds that the Order: (1) is stupid.
But, of course it will go somewhere, because they filed it, and as it says in their petition, "venue is proper" (5th Circuit) because they are from Texas. I wonder how much money they are getting paid to essentially file this suit as a proxy.
Well think about it, now you won't have to reach all the way into your pocket to grab your phone if you want to know what time it is. Genius, isn't it?
Really? Weddings? That's where you draw the line?
Killing people for bringing blankets and beds to kids, that's cool. Killing journalists, that's cool. Terrorizing locals, that's cool. Attacking schools, that's fine? Weddings none of that shit. ... that's it ... huh. To each his own, I guess.
There's the newish game called Besiege. There's a video on you tube of this giant robot someone built. It has fire coming out of its anatomy. It's fucking hilarious, but it's also pretty bad-ass.
I just don't get people that don't think it's awesome (my grandmother excluded).
You realize that prices are water are reflected in where that water is used, right? You can't just say "well now! Livermore is thirsty and we need some of that sweet H2O! Let's just buy some farms in Modesto and we'll have all the water we need!"
You didn't see what he did there. Pay attention. Don't be so quick to jump at people.
It takes 3 years for your first crop of almonds and 8 before the tree is delivering anything like commercial quantities. These trees have decades of work invested in them and the posts suggestion of ripping out the crop is stupid.
You've never grown anything for commercial profit. To the folks who do, it is most certainly "not stupid" to rip out your crop and replace it with something that would make you more money. I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with the article, but if you grow things, and the things you currently have in the field don't provide as great a profit as something else, it doesn't matter what the crops are, you are going to replace your crops with something more profitable. Done.
I recall very well a weekend where my dad and I took chainsaws to hundreds of nice sized (4-5" trunk) retail nursery shade trees to make space for new ones.
"Can't you get anything for all these? Seems like a $600 tree could do somebody a lot of good instead of turning it into mulch."
"No, I can't get anything for these. It will cost more money in labor to sell these than I would get back. Also, I can save a few thousand in mulch by making it myself."
Responded above before I saw this. But this may totally be the case.
I don't think non-competes are entirely unethical. Their premise makes sense, but the gray areas are where lawyers err on the wrong side of the morality spectrum. If an employer isn't willing to make changes to a contract to remove those nasty gray areas that make non-competes absurd, you should be grateful for not signing yourself up for disaster.
At this point, I imagine many employers don't even realize the non-compete clauses are in their contracts. They just downloaded it from buy-a-generic-contract.com and told the HR person to hand it out to new hires.
Is it?
The last two times I was given a non-compete to sign (Colorado), I stood up and addressed the issues I saw with it.
The first one was reviewed by a co-worker's legal buddy. There was a lot of boilerplate, but there were also certain components that were totally unenforceable and unreasonable. A couple people signed it, but the majority of us refused. What is the employer going to do, fire everyone?
The last one was a completely reasonable non-compete. In my case, my work is fairly niche, and the number of people in Denver that are skilled is very few. If we decide to part ways, it could force me to either move or take up a new niche for the next 18 months or whatever. That part isn't so great as I don't want to move or necessarily take up a new niche. I spoke to the employer and we were both happy to agree to amend the contract to nullify the nastiest teeth.
Just because you are given a non-compete clause to sign doesn't mean you aren't allowed to discuss it in detail with your employer. They certainly should have the right to protect their business, and as an employee you understand that. You certainly should have the right to continue working after parting ways, and an employer will understand that.
If you talk to them about it, I'm sure you'll be surprised at the amount of flexibility they are willing to give.
A fool and his ... wait.. shit. I guess a fool and his smart wallet are soon pa ... wait ... this is pointless.
You're familiar with the 22RE?
You're aware that those motors would run for 200,000 miles driven by an irresponsible teenager that never changed the oil, right?
That certainly aren't the most power motors ever made, but they are remarkably reliable. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see components replaced with plastic and still perform to spec. Sure, not for another 200,000 miles, but certainly longer than 10 milliseconds.
You can go talk to them and ask them yourself. Meeting
Also, Lake Tulloch / New Melones ...
Also 30 percent price raises in the Bay Area.
If you think people aren't actively working on the problem, you need to look around more. That information took me 5 minutes to find.
The suburbs around Denver have a lot of the same names of streets that exist in the city core road grid.
North/South streets will usually be ordered alphabetically and with a theme. Plant names, city names, historical names, etc. This is great, it makes a lot of sense because you know if you are on Ivy then you know the next block over is Holly.
Now, in the suburbs, they decided to do away with a grid road system and instead went with semi-random twists and curves and such. The grid is gone, but the names of the streets remain the same. On top of this, you have several streets with the same name, differing only on the suffix as you mentioned. Ivy Street, Ivy Lane, Ivy Road, Ivy Avenue, Ivy Court, etc. So while the guys in the city decided that putting Ivy next to Holly next to Jasmine etc. the folks that laid out the streets in the suburbs also thought that was a great idea, so good that they made everything intersect with everything unpredictably.
Fuck you Aurora.
Check out this guy! His infrared vision allows him to see road stripes through several inches of slush and ice. You should be a fucking movie star you godsend from beyond.
Any album. They are all good.
What is "learning"? Is that running through some prewritten bits to get some calendar application working ... you know, as an abstract concept you then "know". Go through that in two days and then go back to your day job doing whatever it is.
Then fast forward six months. "Oh yeah, I wanna do some more of that coding I learned! I got this sweet idea for an application!"
"... wait, shit ... what was the syntax for that again?"
"... I know the class I need is here somewhere ... "
etc. etc.
You certainly did a great job of "learning" that language in two days, right?
My point is that it is not possible to "learn a programming language" in two (or a few) days. If you use a few programming languages in your day to day job, then yes, you can explore another language and get the general idea in a day or two. But then you go right back to not using it.
You can't learn a programming language unless you use it.
Java!
We've known for awhile. Slashdot Beta seems to have been rolled out and it's clear where the destruction has taken place.
40 second page loads /.? Really?
What does the "new generation" do when entering a host name for some random API request?
Should we just search for the hostname and hope it's the right one?
Unfortunately, regulating greed doesn't work. You have to fix the problem. You have to have a society of people that aren't greedy. Good luck with that!
"We're greedy! Let us run the show! We know what's best!"
"No, you are providing a valuable service and doing a shitty job of it. We're here to make you do a better job."
"Oh, ok! That's fine, we want to do a better job. Just know that it will make our service more expensive."
"We will be back later with more regulations ... "
Well, it's technical based on what the medium is.
Running the last mile, you're going to need to ask some people for permission to plug your things into their things. For some mediums, there might be a bunch of people you need to ask permission of. For other mediums, there might be fewer (or possibly zero) other people you need to ask permission of.
As long as someone else is allowed to permit or deny anyone who wants to plug their things into something, there *may* be a monopoly. Is it technically possible that a monopolistic organization can act upon the utmost ideal of "good-faith"? Of course. Likely? It's tough to prove otherwise.
I think there *are* some solutions out there that involve running the last mile without having to ask all sorts of people of they'll let you use their plugs. I agree with you. I just don't see it on the horizon.