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Comment That's why I like(d) PHP docs (Score 5, Interesting) 418

by kompiluj on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @04:01PM (#43082611) Attached to: Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow

In PHP docs with every item there comes the section for for "user contributed notes" which are sometimes pretty insightful (like there php strings intro or there implode string function ). Long time ago in a galaxy far away when I used to code in PHP those useful comments not only usually saved my day, but somehow compensated for the unorthogonality (well, an understatement) of the PHP standard library and the language itself. So - yes - I definitely prefer using worse language with better docs than the other way round (think Haskell vs PHP).

Comment One Day Ubuntu users will wake up... (Score 1) 372

by kompiluj on Friday May 07, 2010 @07:27AM (#32124438) Attached to: Canonical Explains Decision to License H.264 For Ubuntu

... to discover that they are using Microsoft Linux ;)

Pegasus and Mercury Circling the Drain 217

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday January 08, 2007 @01:24PM from the check-is-in-the-mail dept.

Daemon Duck writes "One of the web's oldest and most respected email clients is flickering out of existence. Pegasus mail and its companion SMTP server, Mercury32, have been discontinued due to lack of funding for the ongoing development. On the website, the author David Harris states that if some funding becomes available he would consider opening the source code or continuing the development."

US Visitor Fingerprints To Be (Perhaps) Stored by FBI 503

Posted by Hemos on Monday January 08, 2007 @12:46PM from the probably-not-at-this-point dept.

stair69 writes "Since 2004 many visitors to the United States have had 2 fingerprints taken under the US-VISIT scheme. Now there are new plans to extend this scheme — under the proposal all 10 fingerprints will be taken, and they will be stored permanently on the FBI's criminal fingerprint database. The fingerprints will also be made available to police forces in other countries. The scheme is due to be introduced by the end of 2008, but it will be trialled in 10 of the bigger airports initially." Of course, it is worth pointing out that given the recent change in Congress, I suspect that a number of countries will get a "bye" on this round,

Submission + - Scott Rosenberg: What Makes Software So Hard

Submitted by lizzyben on Monday January 08, 2007 @12:28PM

lizzyben writes: The history of software development is marked by missed deadlines, blown budgets and broken promises. Author Scott Rosenberg, founding editor of Salon discusses this dysfunctional culture, and why it persists.

From the interview: "Software is basically entirely abstract, except for the screens, and the screens are what business people always end up focusing on. The insubstantiality of the product promotes the idea that, hey, why should it take so long? There's nothing there."

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