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This article is good but misses a minor point: Wordpress was never intended to be MVC, the developers had probably never even heard of MVC when it was first developed. Wordpress is a bastard.

I've thought about how terrible actually hacking on Wordpress actually is, and truth be told, the horribleness is so entrenched that any kind of form or community effort to improve it would introduce incompatibilities with the ecology that are insurmountable. Wordpress is stuck.

We can survive, for short periods of time. But we can't thrive yet.

You know those people still have children regardless of which country they're in, right?

It'd be cool if there was some option to post stuff to Craigslist or auto-format copy/markup for Craigslist, but that's just me asking for my own Pony. I like the look and ease of listing stuff.

LCD Soundsystem - 45:33. I can always get a good flow on with a little caffeine. Works just as well for running.

What a great way to trivialize a classic film. "It's like 'Shawshank Redemption', except at the end people can reserve a table at a restaurant without calling ahead."

I don't see a reason why they should implement the brand dilution that has caused so much pain for the other car manufacturers.

Think twice before using someone else's hosts file, unless you can actually review every entry. Not that I really think anything funny is happening here, but it is a huge security risk to use non-authoritative DNS like this by taking someone else on their word that their hosts file is legit.

If you're running a web server locally on port 80, the webserver will handle the request. If no service is listening on port 80 your networking stack will not be able to open a tcp connection and it will be actively refused, unless you're using some kind of terrible software firewall.

I wish that someone would find Stuart Smith and get him to do the same with Adventure Construction Set.

I think another problem is suitable roadways. There's probably trails available everywhere but there is definitely going to be a reduction is available surfaces to ride bicycles on. I don't know if this changes the proposition, but it definitely introduces a new complexity that should be explored in fiction.

I just kind of think a bicycle may not be that useful in some parts of a zombie-infested rural Georgia.

Keep some contacts in the non-startup world. When the shit hits the fan people are still going to need boring-ass ecommerce and the like.

c:\Program Files, like every other program since Windows 95.

That was my mindset when, after college, I got my first credit cards. What's another thousand bucks on top of 30k?

It's because it's a lie. Many times the copied sites have copy asserting that so-and-so is a great firm, make great products, when they haven't made anything. If isn't such a big deal, why don't the copied sites say 'We copied this entire website, minus copy changes, from X.'?

Good luck with that in most of the country.

When civil cases are used instead of criminal cases it seems particularly disgusting that the government can even appeal a decision in favor of a private citizen.

> When storing time, store Unix time. It's a single number.

Don't do this in your database. Use your datetime types. Please. You might save some work with your timezone but you're not going to be able to use intervals etc in a smart way.

This would be even dumber with PostgreSQL, which has much more robust date/time functionality (being able to use the - operator with datetimes and intervals, for example) and completely sane timezone support.

This is an effect, not a functionality.

And of course, depending on the application, you should be using 1+0 for performance reasons over 5 anyway, if it's a database server.

I used a positive anymore and it didn't even care.

I don't think this always works so well. The word for Egypt is 'Period'. The design, however, is great.

If you can't spare 30 seconds to floss outside of the shower, maybe attack the serious time sinks first before micromanaging less than a minute of your day. By the time you're done reading this comment, I will have wasted more time than you will ever save with any of these tips.

Also, the frying pan trick unnecessarily forces you to wash a pan later. Preheat the oven for a couple of minutes at 350F, leave the pizza right on the rack for 5 minutes, enjoy. Some pizza tastes better the second time this way.

Maybe add a photosensitivity warning on that link, bro.

I'm nitpicking, but

  When images arrive, they come tripping onto the page, pushing other elements around and triggering a clumsy repaint.

This is easily avoided by defining the image dimensions in your stylesheet.

Sure, it's more fun, but you won't get a bad reputation for refraining from disparaging others and others' creations.

That said, I'm just as terrible as the next guy.

Essentially there are lawyers that seize on the opportunity to take advantage of populist anger against corporations to get a payday (a cut of the settlement). While class action lawsuits are good for holding companies accountable generally a lot of people get a few bucks and a few lawyers get a lot more.

Reads like a top 5 tech trends of 2012 at times.

My favorite part about this site is the plethora of innocuous edits from people obviously bored at work, like typo corrections in the Amazing Race article written by someone working for the CIA, and other boring shit like that.

To add another anecdote about Audiogalaxy, I think I wouldn't have the taste in music today if it wasn't for Audiogalaxy. If I remember right, you could also send links to albums/artists to people (hazy on this one) and that was a great way to share new music with friends. I think Grooveshark comes closest to this in spirit, since you can link to just about any artist, album, or track. I imagine Grooveshark will probably last no longer than a another year because of the pirating issue, though.