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This. +1000 if I could.

There are those of us who have been forced to use PHP, and quite honestly, we could use a few good round-up posts of why there are better choices for a project these days than PHP.

Sometimes we can't forget that it exists, so we try to educate people so that with a little luck, they won't pick PHP for their next project.

That may insulate factories from fluctuating inventory supply, but it doesn't solve the problem of fast turnaround when changes are needed. If a part needs to be redesigned, the supplier may still have a weeks-long lead time to get the new part shipped, and has the additional problem of obsolete inventory that is now wasting space near the factory.

Acrobat allows you to embed a subset of the font in the PDF. For a large enough document, most of the glyphs end up embedded anyway, but at least there's no packaged font file that can be installed from the PDF.

That's fine when you make a comparison against a constant, but what if you're comparing two variables?

Part of this has to do with the complexity of storing cookies in WebKit. The SDK wants to redirect to the FB app if it's installed since that is pretty much guaranteed to have the user's credentials. Safari is next most likely, since it will have the user's session cookie stored. Finally, the in-app web view is the fallback of last resort.

This complexity seems to be an attempt to save the user from entering text in a tiny form to sign in. I don't know that it makes an actual user's life easier, but it certainly doesn't help the developer.

Can someone change this to link to the actual IBM blog entry [1] instead of the CNET fluff piece?

[1] http://asmarterplanet.com/blog/2011/12/the-next-5-in-5-our-f...

Why does "more governance" necessarily mean deportation? I fail to see the connection. Can't "more governance" mean better bureaucracy for documenting immigrants?

While you're clearly implying that this is an indicator of a second tech bubble, you're using faulty logic to arrive at that conclusion. Computers were also popular during the dot-com boom. So was the Internet. That doesn't mean that a focus on internet computing caused the bubble, or even indicated it.

If you want to say that this is a managerial dashboard wankfest that may indicate a company more obsessed with metrics than with building a great product, just say it.

A web form to submit a MAC address would make more sense, but if this were a serious problem the solution would be to go to the manufacturers. A standard for broadcasting an "opt-in" bit configurable in the router's admin interface might be reasonable.

(But standards take time to develop and implement. Not to mention that the existence and location of certain MAC addresses is far from the biggest fish to fry, right-to-privacy-wise.)

I'm a New Yorker and I know what you mean by "B of A," as do many of the people I know. I think we're both dealing with small anecdotal data sets here, though.

This is getting off-topic, but did you forget about AT&T's secret rooms that were recording internet traffic? It's not just Google that wants to read your mail. Governments want to spy on their citizens, and ISPs are (allegedly) cooperating in the effort.

I don't know if you're disappointed that some comments were stating the obvious (the code stinks) or that all the more experienced coders joined in on the pile-on.

I agree that it would be nice if the OP took the time to deconstruct the example and explain why some of the coding practices are bad. Then again, some of the comments do explain why it's bad code. Seeing comments like the one below, however, makes me wish there were enough time in the world to educate beginner programmers (and that they'd all give a darn about avoiding problems like this).

> Hm... I like this code. All the stuff is combined together in one place.

You might want to check out Logstash (http://logstash.net/). It's an open source log aggregator, parser, and search tool. I haven't implemented it myself yet, but it was one of my favorite software introductions at OSCON this past summer.

Or this section of Queens where there's a 23rd Street, 23rd Avenue, 23rd Road, 23rd Terrace and 23rd Drive in close proximity: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=23rd+Street,+Queens,+New+York,...

Thank you for expanding on my admittedly rushed comment. I agree that comparing health data in the US to that of developing countries is problematic. But it raises interesting questions.

One question, that I don't think has been answered sufficiently is that the controlled trials and published studies have been criticized for possibly overstating the effectiveness of treatment. (The trials were stopped early on ethical grounds which can overestimate the effects being tested.) Wikipedia has a fairly comprehensive roundup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcision_and_HIV#Randomised...

I think my bigger point, though, is that it's easy to look at data and say, "Aha! This one thing is the solution" without stepping back and looking at all the different pieces that make up the big picture. It's going to take some combination of education, prevention, vaccination, and health policy to tackle this disease.

Then why does the USA have the highest rate of circumcision and also the highest rate of HIV infection of developed countries? I don't think the claim holds up under scrutiny here.

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I live on Wall Street, as do many other hard-working New Yorkers. The Financial District isn't just fat-cat bankers and hedge fund managers these days. I don't expect that interfering with people's routines is an effective way to win their hearts, regardless of the intentions of the protest.

"Dulwich is the place where Mr. and Mrs. Git live in one of the Monty Python sketches." (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/dulwich)