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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @murpheous said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      @DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:

      Just to vent a bit, what the hell is with restaurants having menus without any damn pricing. . Seriously who the hell is going to say "I'll that the whatever" and have no idea on the final bill?

      I've only seen this in drink menus.

      That's how I get stuck with €100 bill for chocolate milk

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: How Often Is a Degree a Negative

      @thecreativeone91 said:

      @scottalanmiller You just don't have flash installed.

      Who the hell still makes new sites with flash? There's almost nothing that can be done in flash now that can't be done in JS+HTML5 with less effort.

      posted in IT Careers
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    • RE: Got tired of waiting for someone to update their subcategories plugin. for Helpdesk V2...

      @Rob-Dunn said:

      By the way - the latest update adds subcategories to custom forms!

      You just don't know when to quit, do you?!

      posted in Self Promotion
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    • Palindrome Checking with Lua

      @scottalanmiller suggested, nay demanded, a new tradition be started of writing palindrome checkers in various languages, here's the thread:

      http://mangolassi.it/topic/3833/palindrome-checking-with-php

      Here is Lua:

      io.write("Your palindrome is: ")
      pal=io.read()
      if pal == string.reverse(pal) then
      	print("It's good.");
      else
      	print("Fail");
      end
      
      posted in Developer Discussion lua challenges
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      @MattSpeller That's what you get for smoking a big fat dookie.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Motivating Workers

      What are you using a squiggly pen to underline that text, bro?

      posted in IT Careers
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    • RE: Would You Rather...

      @NattNatt said:

      Is it just me, possibly not understanding fully, but why would anyone CHOOSE higher blood pressure over higher profit margins?!

      Exactly, at first I thought it was trying to say "would you like more money but higher blood pressure too?" and I thought "hell, that's my life now."

      posted in Self Promotion
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    • RE: PHP 7 Coming with Up to 100% Performance Improvement

      I've been working with PHP 7, it's pretty impressive so far, I really love the type hinting / pseudo-static typing -- it's something I've wanted for PHP for over a decade. There are missing extensions which haven't been ported and most importantly, xdebug, doesn't look like it'll be ported for a while, as on github I noticed the primary contributors were complaining that it'd be "too hard" to do it. In the mean time I created a drop in replacement which works somewhat OK:

      http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/php-7-replacement-for-xdebug-tracing/

      Code is under MIT/X11, because unlike Stallman, I don't believe in forcing you to let me see your code, in other words, I've showed you mine, you need not show me yours 😉

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: What Are You Doing Right Now

      Right now working on an ERP-of-sorts called, coincidentally, Mango. It's PHP on the back, JS on the front, and is fairly alpha 😉 Hope I don't need to consider a name change, curses!

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: What is Gated vs. Non-Gated Content?

      @scottalanmiller said:

      I have a simple way to gauge this....

      gated content is for stuff not good enough to be shared where you have to charge for the content before people see it. Gates is more anonymous and for those not proud of their work.

      non-gated content is where you put stuff with value, when you are proud of it and want people to see it and associate it with you. When you are not hiding.

      This is how we helped change the online adult entertainment industry, and ... also make everyone pretty mad. We made everything freely available, video and all, and at the time this wasn't a normal thing, but it helped mess up everything.

      Technically we were second to the show, but we did it better because we also provided free adult connections (compared to other sites directly designed for this) and tons of other things. Providing it free made us more popular than the ones which did not, and if anyone signed up for those costly ones, they were all terrible, and usually nothing but fake accounts.

      In other words, akin to what you said, paywalls are a way to get something when you can't make money providing good content so you trick people into paying for it.

      Ironically later on we did partner to provide HD and other video for money, I should clarify, but the rest is still all free, very little costs anything.

      posted in Self Promotion
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    • RE: Going back to school...

      @scottalanmiller said:

      PHP isn't cool anymore, but lots and lots of people know and use it.

      Come at me bro!

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: New Evidence and Math Suggest that Big Bang Did Not Happen

      @nadnerB Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.

      I think that was an early motto for Apollo

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: My New Company - Dara IT

      @Breffni-Potter said in My New Company - Dara IT:

      @scottalanmiller said in My New Company - Dara IT:

      @Breffni-Potter said in My New Company - Dara IT:

      So https://darait.co.uk is well over a year old.

      A lot of lessons have been learnt, some very exciting projects worked on with clients and actually the offering available, the culture, the methodology, is one of the most unique approaches for an IT company in the UK. Every time I have this conversation, it is something people are wanting, completely different to the MSP model which has saturated the market.

      Bumping the thread because actually it's taken a good year of developing that foundation so it might be interesting for others to read about where things started and how it developed on.

      You should post a thread about the new MSP model.

      It would be quite an essay...

      Post it, don't wimp out on us bro

      posted in IT Business
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    • RE: Going back to school...

      @RamblingBiped said:

      @StrongBad Okay, so maybe I should have said QUICKLY grasp the fundamentals AND build a solid proficiency with Java.

      Relative to Java is Eclipse the preferred IDE I should start working with, or is there something better? I've bounced around a little with an intro to java course on udemy.com a few weeks ago and it seems like that and other courses always have you install Eclipse.

      IntelliJ IDEA is a billion times better, Eclipse is a piece of garbage by comparison, I really hated it, and it actually made me hate Java. Well, don't get me wrong, I use Java almost every day and still hate it, but I hate it a lot less.

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: In honor of MangoLassi's first birthday, let's do a giveaway

      This whole thing is just a scam by Nic for free comedy to pick up chicks.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Going back to school...

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Don't spend your time learning an IDE. Learn to use vi or Notepad++ instead of focusing on tooling. IDEs just get in the way of learning. Only look to an IDE once you have the fundamentals down.

      And if I had wheels, I'd be a wagon.

      Only learn vi if you have to, it's an entire environment of absolute hell in of itself. I mean, super simple stuff like easy menus and so on, no, we need complicated insert mode, command mode, delete mode, cut your grass mode, etc.

      Don't listen to @scottalanmiller when it comes to programming, he's trying to misinform you so you'll hate programming and he can monopolise every thread as being the only programmer. You know the only reason I joined this site is so I could tail gate him in programming threads. He doesn't know I'm on to him though.

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: Why will email never be dead?

      The difference between email and essentially almost any other "platform" (such as Zoho Connect, Yammer, Facebook, SMS, etc) is that email is completely independent. You can run your own email servers, you can configure it in the way you want, you don't have to worry about others at all. Not only that, since the protocols are open, unless someone has a malconfigured email server, or doesn't have one at all, you can email them even if there's never been communication between your networks before. You cannot do this with anything else and also be independent.

      That's why email will not die. It may change in small ways over time, but it will still be here. It's the universal fail over for everything else (even some providers allow text messages and voice mails to fail over/forward to email), and I can send text, images, and all types of files through it. What else meets all of these qualifications? Nothing.

      The only way to really get rid of it would be to make something just as simple, just as open, just as independent, and make it reverse compatible with email -- and then we're back to the beginning, Google's tried it, doesn't work out that great.

      I also cannot predict what business communication will be like in 10 - 20 years, but I guarantee email will be there, just as a technologist in the 19th century wrote "I don't know what London will look like in the 21st century, but I know it won't be that much different than now." And he was right, because the fundamentals really don't change.

      The same goes for email, and unified messaging won't replace it, considering that unified messaging almost always, without exception, centers around or fails over to email.

      Saying otherwise is literally no different to me than people who have said over the last 5 years that "[mobile] apps will make the web obsolete within 5 - 10 years." and in fact are still saying that. I guess it's "disruptive" to say something will be obsolete, but with many, many, many offices still using software made 15 - 20, sometimes 30 years ago, it's more than a stretch to suggest everyone will suddenly shift to one direction over the next decade.

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: Going back to school...

      @scottalanmiller said:

      Over 100 views and over 50 posts on an after hours posting. Pretty impressive 🙂

      You and I both tear up threads, any thread we're on is going to explode with posts, even if it's just one of us.

      posted in Developer Discussion
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    • RE: Hello, I'm the IT and software equivalent of the Merv Griffin Show

      @MrWright4hire No, sorry, I don't. I got mostly acquainted with MySQL prior to YouTube and so forth. I still watch some stuff related to highly scalable stuff every now and again, though the kind of stuff I've done sometimes goes beyond even the hypothetical environments in the videos, unless the video is about Facebook or something that big. My suggestion though if you just want some basic information about it, MySQL's web site actually does have a lot of information, and in addition to that, the stackoverflow.com tag for MySQL is good, and there are tons of other tutorials out there.

      Getting the base information is fairly straight forward, getting good information on storage engines, indices, proper queries, etc (something you should worry about once you're familiar with SQL itself) is in the manual, but usually there is sort of vague and hard to understand, so it'll take some searching. There may be videos about this stuff, but again I don't know, maybe go to Google Video and search MySQL and change your search options for videos 20+ minutes, that way you know they're detailed.

      On my blog I also write articles about MySQL and MySQL-related projects from time to time, and I suggest you check out the ones involving case sensitivity and also unicode storage.

      http://tonyshowoff.com/articles/category/mysql/

      posted in Water Closet
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    • RE: What Lanaguages are still relevant?

      Those are all still relevant, except Delphi pretty much is on the way out and has been for years. Keep in mind though, when a language becomes obsolete, it tends to mean that if you're starting a new project you shouldn't use it, but usually for years you can find employment maintaining or converting old projects. You can still find COBOL jobs, but I don't know of anyone who would say you should start a new project with it, because it's so obsolete.

      I personally like to think VB.NET is obsolete, it obviously is not, but I think people should focus more on C# because it has a syntax with some transferrable skill built in, i.e. it's easier to go from C# to C++, Java, PHP, Perl, JavaScript, etc than it is to go from VB.NET to basically anything which isn't based upon BASIC, which is very few things.

      So this rings true with Delphi, while you're basically using a fancy version of Visual Pascal, that too really isn't transferable, though maybe some old Object Pascal jobs are still out there some place.

      But, does that mean it's too old to be using? Only if it's for starting a new project, because you're simply creating something with a higher maintenance cost later on due to fewer professionals with knowledge of it. Whether or not a language is good has no barring on whether it's obsolete. You should pick languages based upon issues like: platform(s) it may run on, typical use cases for the language, and future maintenance of it, as in I wouldn't suggest starting any Perl projects either.

      Unless you have a cost/benefit reason to do so, porting your project to another language is usually a bad idea, not a good one, and you can still find actively maintained Delphi (or open source alternatives of it) IDEs and compilers. Once you can't find any of those any more, it may be worth officially calling it dead and porting things.

      posted in Developer Discussion
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