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we frequently experience problems downloading scripts from google's CDN, which is why we switched to using local files.

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I'd rather install a browser plugin than run a Java applet.

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by the same amount Amazon AWS invalidates my company's compute cluster (hint: by 0% in our case). No size fits all.

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The site blog.curebit.com is down. Here's the cached version: "Apology to 37signals

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Allan Grant Recently we launched a site with several pages copied from 37signals’ Highrise. We did more than take inspiration from their design – we actually used html & css code, and hotlinked to images on their site. We apologize to David and 37signals for ripping off their work. It was stupid, lazy, and disrespectful of their creative efforts. It’s particularly painful for us to have done this to 37signals because they are big heroes of ours. We just hope they will accept our apologies."

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corporate bullshit.

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Lobbying is fine. PAYING politicians is not. "donations" are just bribes.

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codepad.org

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the first thing that comes to my mind is OpenGL backface culling, which removes invisible faces from a scene.

glEnable(GL_CULL_FACE); glCullFace(GL_BACK);

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what? for this task, programmers should be able to come up with code optimized (if not optimal) right away. For example, this line "I would append a string [...] to the result" certainly involves at least one memory copy operation, especially since he suggested doing this for mod 3 and mod 5. Everyone should know that on most CPUs, arithmetic operations are at least an order of magnitude faster than memory operations. So the alternative should be obvious: don't copy the strings into a string buffer. If you just print the 2 strings ('Fizz' and 'Buzz') as necessary (inside the conditional test blocks) the compiler/interpreter will allocate space for these 2 strings ONLY and will pass pointers to them.

Even though the last operation he mentioned "I would check if the string is null" would indeed be fast, the program won't be able to take advantage of it, because by that time, the program will be performing very costly memory operations.

Instead, this involves no extra memory copy:

for i in 1 to 100: if (i mod 3): print 'Fizz'; if (i mod 5): print 'Buzz';

    if (not (i mod 3) and not (i mod 5)): print i;

    print "\n";

Even though the 3rd condition involves a few extra arithmetic/logical operations, these are way faster than memory operations. The strings 'Fizz', 'Buzz' and "\n" are allocated at the beginning of the program. There is no "result" variable that needs to be allocated/deallocated on every iteration and there is also no need to store the result in an array, because the task is to write a program that "prints" the numbers from 1 to 100. Plus, wouldn't you want to store it in a string, instead of allocating memory for arrays?

I would expect good candidates to be able to at least arrive at this solution after their first attempt.

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You need either the Adobe Flash CS5 authoring tool (for frame-based flash files) or the Adobe Flex Compiler (essentially actionscript embedded in XML, kind of like <script> tags embedded in HTML, only nicer and laggier). The Flex compiler is open source, so you can run it from the command line and compile your application. I had a makefile lying somewhere.

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I LOL'd

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Bullshit. If they really wanted to vandalize your project, they'd use a chain of anonymous proxies.

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parasites

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not necessarily. you could implement these as function calls with no return addresses (think goto-s or JMP instructions). If you never need to return from some of those functions, there's no need to keep an entry in the call stack for them.

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1. not news. 2. ruby? for game dev? really? 3. the author seems to think C and C++ are the same language.

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not news.

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not news

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not news.

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"if you're using PHP, you probably can't eliminate your dependencies" - since when is a dependency a bad thing? you are REUSING the code in a library because, presumably, you need to. Removing that reusable code means you probably have to write it yourself.

"super clean and not need a bunch of other libraries" - "clean" doesn't mean you don't use other people's code. It just means you made a decision to not reuse their code, which means THEY DON'T FIT YOUR PURPOSE, so you HAVE TO WRITE YOUR OWN thing.

"a really good time to be using something other than PHP" - this is just dumb. why switch languages? what does that have to do with the fact that you chose not to reuse other people's code? you sir have no clue what you're talking about.

"I'm honestly not bagging on PHP here" - bullshit, you're trolling.

"I really do think it has its place [...] But just as there's a place and a time for PHP, there is a place and a time for other languages, too" - So what, PHP is too old for you, son? And what "other languages" might you mean? Keep thinking your <insert favorite language here> is automatically better than PHP. Get off my lawn. And take your arguments with you. Oh wait, you didn't bring any arguments.

"When you have no dependencies on legacy PHP libraries" - legacy? Are you implying that all PHP code is legacy now, because, somehow, PHP is too old for you, son? Or are you implying that the only way to have library dependencies in PHP is to rely on legacy libraries, because, somehow, new libraries aren't being released? Your statement makes no sense.

"the opportunity to go lean and clean" - try some x86 ASM with no dependencies. By your logic, that'll be lean and clean.

"and do what you want -- that's the project to not use PHP" - you must be high, or mentally retarded, or just a bad coder. Who said you can't write code in PHP that does not rely on other libraries? Why would you switch languages? Who said people don't rely on other libraries in whatever your favorite language is?

To sum up, go die in a fire.

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"Nobody can hate something as strongly as somebody who's spend way too much time looking at it". Wrong. You can look at something and not hate it as much as someone who just hates PHP because he/she didn't like the syntax or it didn't fit their needs.

"Those frameworks and ORMs [...] are generally obfuscatory at best". This is your opinion, not a fact. Don't state it as a fact, unless you've got concrete examples to prove it.

"downright maliciously bad (CodeIgniter [...])". Another opinion with no facts to support it.

"glacially inefficient frameworks". Another opinion with no facts supporting it.

"it wasn't going to work for us". Good. It works for many other people, you happen to be in a different group. More power to you.

"psychotic language decisions". Another opinion stated without any facts or even examples.

"slapdash internals". As someone who has developed plugins for PHP, I have to ask you what exactly can be qualified as "slapdash", to the point where it brings PHP's internal code quality below similar products?

"blatant encouragement of idiotic programming practices": Please, do share with us which "idiotic programming practices" does PHP, the language, encourage, and other similar languages do not? Otherwise, this is another opinion without any facts to support it.

"application structure wasn't essentially actively discouraged". For the thousandth time, learn to provide supporting evidence to your arguments.

"the solution to any data storage problem seems to be <<MORE ARRAYS!>>". This statement makes no sense. Here's a counter example: if I had 1TB worth of data which I wanted to save to a MySQL cluster, I would _not_ need more arrays than to store the same data to a single MySQL instance, because the storage layer has nothing to do with in-memory representation of an item (except when the programmer decides to make the two similar, but that has nothing to do with the language). Therefore, your statement is false.

"a sufficiently advanced developer, finds themselves fighting it as much as using it". Please provide some evidence. As a counter-example, I can point to Facebook, which probably has "sufficiently advanced developers" that are not fighting with PHP.

"I went back to Java". I hope you stay there.

In conclusion, I'd like to say that, given your unsupported claims, you seem to not have reached a sufficient level of proficiency with PHP. You did say you spent a lot of time looking "at it", but that doesn't necessarily imply that you understood PHP. All the rhetoric in your comment makes for a decent rant, but it will only appeal to similarly-minded people, who hate PHP because of random, half-brained personal reasons.

I wish you a happy life, full of hatred for PHP.

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