Our web application support team doesn’t know html or javascript, can you redo the project so you aren’t using those? - clientsfromhell
Real programmers set the universal constants at the start such that the universe evolves to contain the disk with the data they want. - Randall Munroe
Some programmers are craftsmen, some are engineers, and there sure are a lot of lowest-bid contractors out there. - Ian Eure
An exception handler handles exceptions that were not caught before. It is the nature of an exception that it discontinues execution of your program - since it declares an exceptional situation in which the program cannot continue (except you catch it). Since it has not been catched your code signals it is not being aware of the situation and cant go on. This implies: returning to the script is simply impossible when the exception handler has already been called, since an uncaught exception is not a notice. use your own debug- or notice-log-system for things like that. - Anonymous
stop all non-essential processes like spyware… and other running software. - Amit Agarwal
Feeling like the adventure has gone out of computing? Need a challenge? Still have extra hair you haven’t pulled out from previous problems? suicidal tendencies? - Brian
I’m in ur chromiumz, teleporten ur goatz. - Praetorian Tmotc
HTML 4.01 contains everything that XHTML 1.0 contains, so there is little reason to use XHTML in the real world. It appears the main reason is simply “jumping on the bandwagon” of using the latest and (perceived) greatest thing. - Ian Hickson
I think the “battles” will be less acerbic. Any IP is as good as any other, excepting DNS providers. I can’t imagine anyone uttering the words “my father was born on this IP!” It’ll be more like a soup kitchen (if it’s first-come, first serve), or a trading floor (if it’s more of a free market) - Mark Jaquith
Do you think anyone sets up camp outside the League of Justice with a bullhorn, shouting: It’s too confusing to keep track of all you super heroes! Which one has which power, and should be used to fight which enemy? Which one is the right one to help us out in an hour of need? Why can’t there just be one giant superhero, SuperBatGreenMartianFlashHawkManWoman?? - Jeff Atwood
Fred is Envato’s only PHP developer, valiantly holding the fort against the Ruby dev team who consider their development language to be superior. - Skillie
But the pigments make up such a small portion of the paint, even the tree huggers should let themselves off with choosing an unnatural baby blue. - Ross Samson
Why should language need a === operator in the first place? == can be taken to mean “sorta, kinda equals, but maybe not” === means “no, no, no… REALLY, REALLY equals, not sorta equals”
How many people with decent programming backgrounds write their first PHP script and then have to replace == with === ?
- Lobby Jones
Ask any programmer why they use an ORM, and the answer is likely to be “impedance mismatch”. This is a lovely phrase from a rhetorical point of view - hovering at the edge of meaning, but nicely avoiding asserting anything that can actually be quantified. - Aldo Cortesi
Iraqi insurgents have been regularly using the satellite-snooping software to monitor live Predator video feeds. Apparently the Predator transmits video over an unencrypted link, so there’s no major hacking or security breach going on here, but it’s obviously a huge issue — and we’d say the bigger problem is that Pentagon officials have known about this flaw since the 1990s, but they didn’t think insurgents would figure out how to exploit it. Way to underestimate, guys. - Nilay Patel
When we say that GPLv2 and GPLv3 are incompatible, it means there is no legal way to combine code under GPLv2 with code under GPLv3 in a single program. This is because both GPLv2 and GPLv3 are copyleft licenses: each of them says, “If you include code under this license in a larger program, the larger program must be under this license too.” There is no way to make them compatible. We could add a GPLv2-compatibility clause to GPLv3, but it wouldn’t do the job, because GPLv2 would need a similar clause. - Richard Stallman
Sure we limit the install base a little, but what host worth it’s beans doesn’t have the standard pdo database drivers installed? - Allain
The Windows GIMP installer is 16MB if that takes 5 hours to download it would mean it takes 9.11 days to download the full 700MB ISO. Wow I just realized something, if it takes 5 hours to download 16MB that is about 7Kb/s. At that rate it take 9.11 days to download 700MB. See the relationship 700, 7, and 9.11. It means that GWB knew about 9-11. 9-11 was perfectly executed hence the 7, the 700 club is a conservative organization so that means GWB new. Canonical fits in because Linux is a Communist system and they want to found a NWO. PEOPLE OPEN YOUR EYES - GIMP Dropped From Ubuntu 10.04
I can change 99% of the layout of any of my sites by just changing the style sheet; there is no need to dive into the HTML. Only if the site needs a major overhaul the HTML must be changed. If your web designer tells you this isn’t true, fire him. - Voostind
Languages like Ruby and Python are chock full of things geared toward computer programmers. If you hire a Python or a Ruby programmer, just by virtue of knowing the language that programmer is many, many times more likely to appreciate clean, well organized code than a PHP developer. That is part of the culture of those languages, and the people who evangelize them. - Andrew Noyes
