Comment Why not? (Score 1) 85
They are tools; asking a candidate to show how they use tools is fine, on the face of it.
You can demonstrate whether or not you know how to use them intelligently and carefully.
They are tools; asking a candidate to show how they use tools is fine, on the face of it.
You can demonstrate whether or not you know how to use them intelligently and carefully.
I mean other than random schmucks?
It's a tool. I don't care if it "really" understands what it's doing, if it e.g. correctly generates code for an admin page with 20 fields
(And yes, it's an uneven tool
Duolingo has people saying the word Yo as "Joe". No, nobody says "Joe quiero taco bell."
There are many dialects of Spanish. Mexicans don't pronounce it that way, but Cubans do (think Al Pacino's Scarface), and also a Venezuelan that I worked with.
Came here to say that. Yes, some Spanish speakers do pronounce their Spanish words that way. There are indeed many dialects.
... but I wouldn't call it important.
Programming involves way more pausing and thinking then typing.
The best option is to not use PHP based technology. There are so many other options with fewer issues. I understand there are some killer app but nobody in their right mind should start a new project in PHP. Yet Oracle and Azure still find new customers.
Meh.
Most of the web runs on php, and there are reasons for that. Chesterton's fence and all that.
PHP is not the issue here. The issue isn't about any technical deficiencies in PHP, it's age / relevance as a web framework in the 2020's, or anything like that.
The issue is that Mullenweg exerts outsized influence over the WP community to its detriment. But yes, if the WP community can rally around a new community that Mullenweg does not exert control and veto power over that would solve the main issue.
Well said.
A centralized package repository has always been a good idea.
Having it owned and run by the guy who profits off the wordpress.org/.com confusion wasn't (for the users, anyway).
a barren desert is also a "natural habitat", and has also "life", but you're not going to want to live there
I thought that was called California and "good weather".
Does "dark pattern" mean "effective, time-honored advertising strategy" or something?
I don't like them either, but calling them "dark patterns" doesn't magically change them into ebola.
Our species is garbage. We belong dead.
You must be fun at parties.
The difference is that tech companies used to feel like they had to at least maintain a polite fiction that they were ethical and in some way serving a greater good. Now we're in the Trump/Musk era, where being unethical is considered morally superior to being pointlessly encumbered by ethics/morals/empathy/etc, so there's no need to pretend.
It must be very soothing, imagining one's self as all good and others as all bad.
So for actual schizophrenia:
Estimates of the international prevalence of actual schizophrenia among non-institutionalized persons is 0.33% to 0.75%.
So if we conservatively say 0.33%, that's what. ~1 in 300 people? Out of any decent sized population that's a LOT of people.
Now add to those, the additional
Welcome (once again) to the concentrating effect of the internet.
The Guardian describes German drives "confronted with maps sprinkled with a mass of red dots indicating stop signs,"
So, which was it? Fake closures, or stop signs that looked like closures?
(Squints at article)
Oh - so, red dots that looked not like stop signs, even though the article says that twice, but red dots that looked like
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