thefsb
Joined 14 years ago
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Comment · 5 years ago
Almost any salaried position in a big enterprise involves very little real work. It's mostly email, meetings and power point.
Comment · 6 years ago
Switched to SES.
Comment · 7 years ago
I switched to FF after Prism was publicized. It's good. Go for it.
Comment · 8 years ago
Hi Matt, have you read Graeber's "Bullshit Jobs: A Theory" yet? It has an interesting perspective on what drives the trend to minimize pay for writers.
Comment · 8 years ago
Here are the first 3 paragraphs of the section on Duct-tapers from Chapter 2.
https://monosnap.com/file/L41lTePrEn3wAJxD4sMZxeIYacxDqK
This was striking for me because I immediately thought that all the stuff I've authored for salt, ansible, grunt, etc. is duct tape. And I hated doing that work. I always did.
It's necessary and necessarily complex but a lot of the complexity is because fitting all this stuff together is going to be a mess no matter what. We can argue about better and worse approaches to managing the complexities (micro-services, whatever) but it's still complex and I resent that.
Comment · 11 years ago
cweagans is right. PHP is deeply unfashionable, ridiculous even to some programmers using other langauges. But quietly, somewhere out of sight, it has been enjoying something of a renaissance in recent years. Generally I'm pleased with changes in the culture, tools, standards and even in the language. But just can't get behind this decision to keep mcrypt.
Comment · 11 years ago
It appears those with a vote regard adoption of PHP 7 as the higher priority and therefore compat with existing code using mcrypt must be ensured. http://news.php.net/php.internals/82191
Comment · 13 years ago
This is hilarious: "Web 2.0 took over, yielding big buttons, less text, more images, and happier users."
Comment · 13 years ago
yii
Comment · 14 years ago
isn't this basically what Jaron Lanier was getting at in You Are Not a Gadget?