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The White House, Yahoo, BBC, Sun, Nike, Novell, Adobe, Rackspace, Symantec, Warner Bros., Greenpeace, Harvard, Fedex, WordPress.com, Forbes, and a billion others. Check out http://…

Only Google can hide the page behind a log-in and still expect us to come back (precisely because they're Google).

I agree with you that WordPress and Drupal aren't examples of great code. It has to do with the fact that CMSes take a long time to gain traction and acquire a true community, and …

"Years of torment"? Doesn't match my experience at all. Did you read MailChimp's blog post?

For PHP, it's 0 lines. Works right out of the box.

I like Node, but... really? You're saying that, for noobs, compiling programs on the command line is easier than copying a few Apache lines? Noobs can't do what you just outlined; …

Several PaaSes support PHP, too, so no major difference there. In a VPS environment, however, setting up PHP doesn't require anything - it works right out of the box - whereas Djan…

To use WSGI (which is what most people would use instead of mod_python) you have to write some lines in your server configuration plus a script that loads your framework of choice.…

Regarding hosting I wasn't just talking about shared hosting. Setting up a LAMP VPS is just a couple of clicks. Compare that to setting up e.g. Django or Rails. I personally love D…

First of all, how it started isn't as important as where it is now. And what we have now is a full-fledged programming language. Secondly, if you can build large-scale maintainable…

In the context discussed in this thread, "framework" means code that includes MVC, URL routing, and often an ORM. PHP in itself doesn't offer that; you need a framework such as Cod…

PHP has its faults, but it also has dead-easy deployment, cheap and reliable hosting, good documentation, and an excellent community.

"If you're moving away from the US you'll see a significant drop in salary though" Depends on whether you're moving from popular dev centers such as Silicon Valley or New York City…

I published something similar recently: http://hndigest.com

Like all features, "position: fixed" can be applied in useful ways and in not so useful ways. I agree that Der Standard's way of using it isn't too good, but overall fixed position…

"The most important change is that most navigation elements continue to be visible even when you scroll down. The navigation bar, the search box and the search options sidebar have…

I just published something similar to your site and Hacker News Daily, but with more items per day and using email: http://hndigest.com

It's a fad, nothing more than that.

Mirror? The site is down.