> If you want to use PHP as it was originally intended...
If you want to use teflon as it was originally intended, you should coat spacecraft with it. Whenever I want to fry sausages, I dismiss the original intention as irrelevent. You'd have me donate all my saucepans to NASA every time I got peckish, but what about my sausages? They're not going to cook themselves ya know :)
The concept of ORM is a subset of the concept of SQL. When you're adding complexity and/or overhead to something to achieve a subset of functionality, you'd better have a damned good reason to do so. I'm still waiting for a reason that doesn't make me roll my eyes...
They're ethereal by design - they're more like placeholders for gaps in our understanding than they are concepts in their own right, they're there to be removed or explained.
In my experience (and it is just that), introverts tend to accept the differences as personality, whereas extraverts tend to see introversion as a problem that requires fixing.
"That guy just won't stop talking. I couldn't do that"
vs
"That guy never says anything. I wonder what's wrong?"
Treating music as something bigger than 'just' entertainment is pretension IMHO, just as treating wine as more than a drink or chocolate as more than food. That's not to say we don't find greater value in them, but at the end of the day it's an artificial value, an indulgence.
(I say this as a musician who loves both wine and chocolate, and who would be utterly miserable if denied any one of those three things.)
"Finally, a note on version numbers: we're referring to this as Chrome 2, but that's mainly a metric to help us keep track of changes internally. We don't give too much weight to version numbers and will continue to roll out useful updates as often as possible."
A note on common sense: Give a little more weight to version numbers - this should be a new minor version number, given the changes. Sigh
I prefer tea, but I usually drink coffee in order to avoid the 2.5 sugars per cup I take with tea. I bet that's made your life complete knowing that, hasn't it? No? How could that be? Maybe some things aren't worth making articles out of? Speaking of which, my programming font of choice - before the seventh top 10 list this week pops up - is the first monospaced font I come across.
Class FAIL - It's a cheap and tacky "look at me" ploy. Unlike hacking Time's poll, which required a little tech, a little thinking, and highlighted a security issue to Time.