Sure, why not part of the core language? Think about it ...

Out of all the holidays that I'm thinking of off the top of my head, Easter is the one that stands out as being of significant importance as well as being rather awkward to figure when it occurs. If you couple this with the fact that PHP is a web language (an environment where knowing when Easter is can come in rather handy) I think it makes perfect sense.

I suppose if you're griping because there is no core method `ramadan_date` or `chinese_new_year_date`, then that makes sense.

... and yet the parent still gets modded up. That should tell you something about relationship between what PHP is perceived as being and what it actually is.

Can you really not figure it out?

First off, would it be quite easy for you to tell me off the top of your head what the date of Easter will be in 2021? How about just next year? The date it falls on it fairly complicated and not exactly simple to write an algorithm for.

Ok, but who will use it? I guess it comes as a surprise that it is a fairly important holiday for religious reasons and that a number of other holidays' dates are intertwined with Easter.

If you really see no practical application for that, well I guess you're just not trying hard enough.

You must be looking in the wrong places.

Colorado is white-hot right now. The developer jobs will soon follow. I spoke with my dad last night and he mentioned business is up 30% over last year (he sells trees/shrubs/etc). That means people are moving here and buying houses again. Two neighbor houses in Denver were on the market for over a year each and both sold within a week of each other. Be damned if they didn't get what they were asking.

I just interviewed yesterday for a job and was told that the salary would be "quite a bit higher" than my previous salary from 2 years ago. Heck, with all the government agencies here, even the old dinosaur coders can still find work. I think it's a great place to work as a developer. Of course, those days are numbered as all these graduating kids from the East Coast move in and saturate the market with developers. Really, it hasn't been very difficult to differentiate yourself here in the past. There are generally more people interviewing for jobs that have no business being there than there are qualified candidates.

This also not to even mention all the newly wealthy pot vendors that are having to refine processes and invest in their own software tools.

How are the Mongrels classified?

So in order to be a programming language it has to be compiled instead of interpreted?

Where does compiled PHP fit into your world view?

In my case, the first time was roughly 1993. I had this old hard drive that kept making knocking sounds and was unreadable, and my first thought was, "Let's just go ahead and see exactly why that MOLEX connector should only go in one direction."

I shaved the corners to match the bevel of the other side, and fired that thing up. While I was happy with the result, I can't help but think it would have been a little more exciting if the drive was functional. Some pops and smoke is great, but I was hoping for annihilation.

... which is basically saying the same thing as "Yeah, but then I'd have to work a corporate job!"

Some people like Texas, some people like other places. Some people like the start-up atmosphere, some people prefer being employee #499329.

That said, if you work at a start-up that is already funded, there's no reason you shouldn't be compensated well.

It isn't now, but in the future (which is the point, right) it very well could become a language one might call a "programming" language.

Consider the rise of SASS and LESS. We have these now because they are needed modernizations of CSS. At someone point I wouldn't be surprised to see them become a core component.

I don't think it has anything to do with being "remotely managed" but rather the simple fact that a tablet and a laptop are still two different tools.

I think people are starting to understand that using a tablet isn't just "using a computer with a touch screen." It's an entirely different experience, one that is probably better suited for certain tasks that rely on organic movement. Gaming happens to be one of those tasks but certainly not the only. Music and art are others.

A chromebook is a cheap and crippled laptop, basically, but it beats the heck out of any tablet for typing which pretty much anyone would agree, at least as of now.

So I guess if you're seeing a controversy between people clamoring for one item over the other, a reasonable conclusion to draw would be that one person thinks one type of education is better than another.

Do, go on ...

All this.

This is why Ebola is dangerous. It doesn't matter how long it takes for someone to go from "sick" to "dead", as once they get sick, they probably won't be traveling. On the other hand, you have three weeks of incubation to traipse around the world and get somewhere quite distant from the original vector, then get sick, and now all of a sudden you have a handful of cases in Toronto followed by a handful of cases three weeks later in Mexico City ... and so on.

Not just that, but the damage done to a forest floor after a fire will certainly contribute to water erosion. You think the folks in Manitou Springs are going to keep their sandbags at the ready for the next decade worth of Spring runoff?

I was fishing last week, and took some time to observe the fish behavior, as the water was especially clear and the ecosystem was especially healthy.

Something I noticed almost immediately was that the largest fish were swimming near the shore. I've seen this before, but in this case there were no small fry near the banks. It was only the large adults. Out toward the center of the lake was where you were seeing smaller fish rise to food on the surface. In the case of this small mountain lake, the prime locations for what these trout need (food and cover, mostly) happened to be near the banks while the less prime locations were out in the middle.

As they say, big fish eat small fish, and if those small fish want an opportunity to cruise a better location, they will have to fight for it.

The battle for food and shelter/protection is not something we only see in humans fighting wars. The vast majority of animal species on this planet spend the entire length of their lives in a constant battle for food and shelter.