I am more or less an intermediate PHP hacker. Most of my experience
is in Perl and mod_perl.
Right now, what I find the most frustrating about PHP is the
embedded model. It seems that you have to jump through a lot of hoops
to work around that. Maybe once you get used to jumping through those
hoops it is okay, but (for me anyway) it seems like I am working
against the language when I want to abstract webpages away from their
files, for example.
It seems to me that this is one of those areas where the
easy-access part (templating built right into the way you code) starts
making it harder to do more complicated things.
This all seems pretty smart, and goes along with something that
I've been realizing more and more. Dynamic techniques should be used
when the content is truly dynamic.
I think that a lot of php + mysql sites are really just using php
as a templating system, and that static pages, generated automatically
every hour or day or whatever, would serve just as well.
I can say this because I started out doing just that -- mysql/php
as a templating system. Now I've moved to Perl + Template Toolkit
generated static pages. And I may yet end up moving to an XML/XSLT
solution instead.
I just tried live.com (or dead.com) for the first time, in Firefox 1.5.0.1 (linux).
First impression, yes, it is slow. It takes about as long as Gmail to load the interface. I notice these things because I'm on a slow connection.
Second impression: well I did'nt really get that far, because suddenly Firefox crashed. From my experience, this doesn't happen very often. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen the quality agent doodad.
Bananas cost $.33 a pound or less. How can it be so cheap
to ship them all the way from the tropics?
Because they are shipped in huge freighters that consume almost
nothing when you take into account the tonnage they haul. Marine
freight is amazingly efficient. It isn't the ride from the tropics
that is tough, it's the last mile in the Kenworth up to the grocery
store that is killing us.
You would have to do the numbers (I'd be interested in seeing them,
since I wouldn't know how to do them myself) to compare what it costs
to haul 1 ton over 1 mile in a truck or in a freighter. I'm sure we
are talking orders of magnitude difference.
...or at least it doesn't matter.
Toxoplasma has been around and known for a long time. The only real news is that infection rates are *down* (from something like 90% iirc not so long ago) because humans are spending less and less quality time with rodents.
This mostly concerns pregnant women, who risk losing their fetus if the *catch* toxoplasma during the pregnancy. So it is far better to be part of the 50% who is already infected so that your antibodies are prepped.
So yeah, move along.
Right, but cell phones (and PCS and other phones, even though they distance themselves from `cell' phones) work by using lower power signals that only have to reach a tower a short distance away. Everything is broken up into `cells'.
Also, communications are divided into packets, so you could be using the same frequency as somebody right next to you, but not necessarily at the exact same microsecond.
Phil Shapiro seems to know very little about submarines, or boats in general.
First of all, nuclear submarines are a lot faster than what he says (25 mph, less than 20 knots). Even in 1995 when he wrote the FA.
But most of all, he imagines that a 0.5 mile wide "plow" would only slow them down by 40% -- from 25 mph to 15 mph. My guess (based on experience from commercial fishing on not from submarines) is that a 0.5 mile wide plow would slow the sub down to 0 mph (or 0 knots, for that matter).
If the rest of his ideas are as sound as that one, well...
The mysql dual licence was actually hiding a deeper schizophrenia that has just now showed itself. Apparently, they never believed they could really make enough money with GPL'ed software, so now they are doing this.
I'm not sure what the moral of the story might be yet, but quite possibly it is: Beware of what lurks behind the dual licence.
Yeah, except the comments you are complaining about were in the article. (That's what those funny little double apostrophes mean.) So don't blame the OP.
The copanies planning to compete have generally shown a tendency to occasionally break that rule, and I believe that tendency will tend to drive consumers back to Google. until a competitor with a similar philosophy arrives, Google will remain king of the search engines.
Arrogance could hurt Google in the long run though. If a competitor does show up with a better product, Google's domination of the market could disappear in an eye-blink or two.
Google's monopoly is only based on the absence of any decent competition. It isn't like Microsoft, who can use their monopoly to prevent competition from rising up.
Anyway, it's long been known that Netcraft's methods are flawed, since it counts individual web servers multiple times for each virtual domain. It should only count unique sites. (For example, Slashdot counts for something like 13 sites - the individual sections (like apple.slashdot.org - I'm not listing all of them), slashdot.org, www.slashdot.org, images.slashdot.org.)
Doesn't counting individual webservers make sense? The point is seeing what servers are actually being used. Counting the 13 different/. servers reflects on the reality of server use on the net.
Furthermore, I don't see how this would be biased in favor of Apache, since domain names using IIS could be using multiple servers as well.
I think the point is that you don't need to totally pig out every time you eat to be enjoying your life. The trade off that another poster
mentioned, between 16% longer life and 25% lower quality of life, is also totally bogus, since that would
mean that "enjoyment" of one's life can only be measured in food!
Some people might think that way -- and you could still argue that even for them, enjoyment might not be able to measured in quantity --
but, personally, I can think of a lot of other things besides eating that would make it worth living longer.
The statistic I want would be based on the total number of
search engine users who are aware they are using a search
engine. What percentage of that group prefers the MS engine?
That has got to be one of the worst articles I've read.
I agree. I kept flipping through those annoying THW pages waiting for some kind of logical link to the conclusion. I was waiting for him to at least say: "If Linux catches on big time, XFree86 takes so much memory that we will all need huge machines." That might be wrong, but it would have been some kind of point to the whole thing.
As hardware becomes a commodity, places like THW become less and less relevant. Maybe this article is just a sign o' the times.
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I am more or less an intermediate PHP hacker. Most of my experience is in Perl and mod_perl.
Right now, what I find the most frustrating about PHP is the embedded model. It seems that you have to jump through a lot of hoops to work around that. Maybe once you get used to jumping through those hoops it is okay, but (for me anyway) it seems like I am working against the language when I want to abstract webpages away from their files, for example.
It seems to me that this is one of those areas where the easy-access part (templating built right into the way you code) starts making it harder to do more complicated things.
This all seems pretty smart, and goes along with something that I've been realizing more and more. Dynamic techniques should be used when the content is truly dynamic.
I think that a lot of php + mysql sites are really just using php as a templating system, and that static pages, generated automatically every hour or day or whatever, would serve just as well.
I can say this because I started out doing just that -- mysql/php as a templating system. Now I've moved to Perl + Template Toolkit generated static pages. And I may yet end up moving to an XML/XSLT solution instead.
I hear you, on all counts: deserving, getting what he deserves.
Scooter is being prosecuted for lying to the Grand Jury, and that is all.
Even if Valerie Plame turns out just to have been a McDonald's cashier all along, Scooter has to deal with the fact that he lied to the grand jury.
I just tried live.com (or dead.com) for the first time, in Firefox
1.5.0.1 (linux).
First impression, yes, it is slow. It takes about as long as Gmail to
load the interface. I notice these things because I'm on a slow
connection.
Second impression: well I did'nt really get that far, because suddenly
Firefox crashed. From my experience, this doesn't happen very
often. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen the quality agent doodad.
Is this just a coincidence?
Because they are shipped in huge freighters that consume almost nothing when you take into account the tonnage they haul. Marine freight is amazingly efficient. It isn't the ride from the tropics that is tough, it's the last mile in the Kenworth up to the grocery store that is killing us.
You would have to do the numbers (I'd be interested in seeing them, since I wouldn't know how to do them myself) to compare what it costs to haul 1 ton over 1 mile in a truck or in a freighter. I'm sure we are talking orders of magnitude difference.
...or at least it doesn't matter. Toxoplasma has been around and known for a long time. The only real news is that infection rates are *down* (from something like 90% iirc not so long ago) because humans are spending less and less quality time with rodents. This mostly concerns pregnant women, who risk losing their fetus if the *catch* toxoplasma during the pregnancy. So it is far better to be part of the 50% who is already infected so that your antibodies are prepped. So yeah, move along.
Not to mention the fact that you can just use POST and the URL doesn't change either... That ain't exactly bleeding edge, tho...
Wow! The radical liberal movement! (I didn't even know there was one anymore in our fine country.)
You sure you aren't talking about the guys who convinced everybody that there were WMDs in Irak and that Saddam H. was behind 9/11?
Also, communications are divided into packets, so you could be using the same frequency as somebody right next to you, but not necessarily at the exact same microsecond.
Phil Shapiro seems to know very little about submarines, or boats in general.
First of all, nuclear submarines are a lot faster than what he says (25 mph, less than 20 knots). Even in 1995 when he wrote the FA.
But most of all, he imagines that a 0.5 mile wide "plow" would only slow them down by 40% -- from 25 mph to 15 mph. My guess (based on experience from commercial fishing on not from submarines) is that a 0.5 mile wide plow would slow the sub down to 0 mph (or 0 knots, for that matter).
If the rest of his ideas are as sound as that one, well...
The mysql dual licence was actually hiding a deeper schizophrenia that has just now showed itself. Apparently, they never believed they could really make enough money with GPL'ed software, so now they are doing this.
I'm not sure what the moral of the story might be yet, but quite possibly it is: Beware of what lurks behind the dual licence.
Yeah, except the comments you are complaining about were in the article. (That's what those funny little double apostrophes mean.) So don't blame the OP.
I think it might be kind of a joke.
Who was your prof in macroeconomics? Ronald Reagan...?
Arrogance could hurt Google in the long run though. If a competitor does show up with a better product, Google's domination of the market could disappear in an eye-blink or two.
Google's monopoly is only based on the absence of any decent competition. It isn't like Microsoft, who can use their monopoly to prevent competition from rising up.
Doesn't counting individual webservers make sense? The point is seeing what servers are actually being used. Counting the 13 different /. servers reflects on the reality of server use on the net.
Furthermore, I don't see how this would be biased in favor of Apache, since domain names using IIS could be using multiple servers as well.
Just one comment. I would add EAC (Exact Audio Copy) for ripping CDs. It can even read some so-called protected CDs. It just takes a lot longer.
I'm always surprised about Perl's reputation for being hard to read. The perl community
seems to generally put a lot of emphasis on readable code.
Is the reputation for obfuscation just based on regexes?
Agreed that starvation isn't that much fun. I just don't measure my overall happiness based on quantity of food consumed.
I think the point is that you don't need to totally pig out every time you eat to be enjoying your life. The trade off that another poster mentioned, between 16% longer life and 25% lower quality of life, is also totally bogus, since that would mean that "enjoyment" of one's life can only be measured in food!
Some people might think that way -- and you could still argue that even for them, enjoyment might not be able to measured in quantity -- but, personally, I can think of a lot of other things besides eating that would make it worth living longer.
The statistic I want would be based on the total number of search engine users who are aware they are using a search engine. What percentage of that group prefers the MS engine?
Well taken! Didn't mean to be snide.
See kids? Thats why education (university) and reading comprehension is important in life.
Didn't they teach you how to write at your university?You must have meant: That's why education (university) and reading comprehension are important in life.
See kids, when you're bragging about your college education, it's important to know how to write.
I agree. I kept flipping through those annoying THW pages waiting for some kind of logical link to the conclusion. I was waiting for him to at least say: "If Linux catches on big time, XFree86 takes so much memory that we will all need huge machines." That might be wrong, but it would have been some kind of point to the whole thing.
As hardware becomes a commodity, places like THW become less and less relevant. Maybe this article is just a sign o' the times.