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Nice American-centric view there. Up here in Canada we can use 'debit' to pay using our bank account with a separate card from our credit cards.

Introductory guide to get PHP devs down the road to building their applications in such a way that they are easier to test using testing frameworks like PHPUnit

I have a book I published using Leanpub and I set the minimum to be $10. Some people pay the minimum. Some people pay the suggested price of $15. Some have even been as generous as…

I suggest you do some research about the author of the MicroPHP manifesto before throwing snark out there like that. Ed is a personal friend (and we do a podcast together) with man…

Just took a look, that is an awesome paper.

My experience is that it is a very rare and enlightened management team that allows developers to go back and clean up the technical debt that was created during the mad dash to ge…

Author here: With the understanding that I do most of my work in the most-bullied, down-trodden programming language here on Hacker News (PHP) I think that your choice of language,…

(Blog post author here) Upon reflection your use of the term "friction" is a good one. Although I tend to look at "debt" as something you pay back as quickly as possible but someti…

(I'm the blog post author) I would place database design debt firmly in the technical debt side of the ledger (as it were). To me, infrastructure debt deals more with consistency a…

Blog post author here. Yeah, I figured it has been around a lot longer than 20 years but I thought the 20 year thing would get the point across.

I'm a long-time PHP user (since 1998) but I never really peered inside the discussions of the internals of PHP. Now that I'm more connected to others in the PHP world, what you see…

Why not do it through a PEAR channel instead of basically creating your own version of it?

In the presentation shown at http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2008/09/customer-develo... (specifically the last slide where he talks about the Five Why's system) it seems to me…

I must be an old curmudgeon because whenever I see Campfire I think "it's like IRC but with a better client" and wonder what the big deal is. Sure, it's in a browser but is it real…

I was using Capistrano too but, like you, couldn't get my co-workers up-and-running with it so we switched to using Phing. I didn't want to be the only one doing deployments at wor…

Where I work we use IRC as the main way to communicate (we all telecommute) and I have a window open all day long. The secret? Tell your IRC client to make a noise whenever someone…

I have no idea if she would become more organized as a result of having a couple of kids. My observations of other people who have had kids leads me to conclude that disorganized s…

I know it's a shot in the dark, I'm also guessing that you don't have kids of your own. If you did, you would understand wanting the best for your kids, not the minimum.

"You seem to have a model of the human brain as a machine with a moral selector. If it is set to "good", then the morally-correct neural programs are automatically activated, produ…

Me and the missus don't split things up that way, but I can see how it would work. However, you did hit the nail on the head: defining who is supposed to do what means you don't ha…

Oh no, I understand what the author says. I just disagree with her views on it. There is a huge difference between "I am not being responsible but want to be, tell me how" and "I t…

I'm sure I'm going to get flamed and/or down-modded for taking the contrarian postion on this. Shame on me for choosing to accept the challenge of being an adult in our modern soci…