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Comment VPS costs several times more (Score 1) 536

Why are you letting your hosting provider choose your language? Just get a VPS.

True, a VPS is a better once you get to a certain scale, but it can be more expensive for those just starting out. Shared web hosting from Go Daddy, for instance, starts at $3.49 per month, while a CentOS VPS from the same company starts at $19.99 per month. And a VPS is only going to get more expensive over time as IPv4 addresses run out.

Counterexamples would be appreciated.

Comment Re:The central tenet of atheism (Score 1) 1330

There are any number of other possible explanations of how the universe came into existence, and you might choose one based on observation and evidence

I'd be interested to look at some of this evidence that rules out a god's involvement. Without such evidence, atheists have to fall back on what the author of the book of Hebrews called "assurance about what we do not see."

Comment Fractal rant makes about six good points (Score 5, Informative) 536

Anyone cosidering PHP should read this the now infamouns "PHP is a fractal of bad design".

Which must be balanced with the "hardly" rebuttal. For example, PHP lets a program solve the exception/warning dichotomy cleanly in about six lines of code; see the manual's page about the ErrorException class. This leaves about a half dozen legitimate complaints:

  • No way to turn off the language's loosely-typed comparisons.
  • Parse errors and undefined function errors are fatal rather than throwing an exception that the caller can catch.
  • Inconsistent naming conventions in the standard library.
  • Associativity for the ternary ?: operator is the less useful side.
  • PHP allows the server operator to change program semantics in ways that are annoying to work around, such as not allowing a shared hosting subscriber to turn off "magic quotes" or not following HTTP redirects in libcurl.
  • PHP versions change the semantics of existing programs in ways that encourage shared hosting providers to continue to offer only outdated versions of PHP, making it impossible for web application developers to take advantage of new features.

Comment Re:Distinct DNA (Score 1) 1330

If there were any kind of honest dealing, the "pro-life" camp would be the "pro-mind" camp [...] Already, consciousness can be measured. We are close to a verifiable measure of mind.

You might be referring to the study by Casail et al. to identify structure in the response to inductive stimulation of the brain. By that measure, one might choose to draw a line around the second trimester, which is when the circuitry for consciousness finishes forming.

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