Archive for the ‘rants’ Category
PHP is Dead
PHP is dead. Probably.
Allow me to preface this with some context. I
July 8, 2010
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Reddit in 61 minutes and 97 lines of PHP
I read this article, about a guy who made a Reddit clone in 10 minutes in Clojure. He was inspired by this guy, who made a Reddit clone in Lisp in 20 minutes and a hundred lines.
I’m so sick of Lisp hackers. Functional programming is pretty awesome, but every single Lisp/Erlang/Haskell/Clojure/Emacs guy thinks Lisp is [...]
February 3, 2010
Posted in: php, rants 15 Comments
top != self and fun with the Tokelauans
I noticed recently that THE GREATEST SITE IN THE WORLD had a new referrer. I checked it out, and saw this:
A touch of JavaScript, and now they see this:
Just say NO to frames. And kiwis.
January 26, 2010
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When Test Driven Design Fails
In the last couple years, there has been a lot of buzz around things like “Agile“, “Scrum“, “TDD“, and other stupid stuff that wraps an acronym around common sense. Basically, they’re all a way for people to make money by writing books telling people how to develop software. The target market is non-technical managers, developers [...]
December 13, 2009
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