RE: [PHP] phpsadness - the second tangent...

2011-06-05 Thread Daevid Vincent
bout Safari or Opera or the other fringe browsers for my PERSONAL site. -Original Message- From: Tamara Temple [mailto:tamouse.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2011 10:09 PM To: Daevid Vincent Cc: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee. On

Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-05 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-06-05 01:40 PM, Paul M Foster wrote: On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:52:15PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: and I'm "balding" from Alopecia Me too, but in my case, it's just 'cause I'm old. ;-} My sympathies to you both... I'm baling because I produce a lot of testosterone >:D Although, e

Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-05 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:52:15PM -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > and I'm "balding" from Alopecia Me too, but in my case, it's just 'cause I'm old. ;-} Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visi

Re: Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-05 Thread Geoff Shang
On Sun, 5 Jun 2011, Tim Streater wrote: Anyone whose site says that sort of crap needs a good smack. Don't get me started on Facebook. If they don't like your browser, they redirect you to their"We don't support your browser page". They don't even let you try with your unsupported browser,

Re: Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-05 Thread Tim Streater
On 05 Jun 2011 at 06:08, Tamara Temple wrote: > On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: >> ...actually, I do have some good ones here: >> http://daevid.com/content/examples/procmail.php > > "It appears your browser does not support some of the advanced > features this site requires. >

Re: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-04 Thread Tamara Temple
On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: ...actually, I do have some good ones here: http://daevid.com/content/examples/procmail.php "It appears your browser does not support some of the advanced features this site requires. Please use Internet Explorer or Firefox." ROFL. Good o

Re: RE: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-04 Thread Sean Greenslade
Well said. I agree completely with your distaste for extreme political correctness. Like I always say, "it's not a stereotype if it's true." On Jun 3, 2011 4:53 PM, "Daevid Vincent" wrote: >> >> Reminds me (obliquely) of an entry in the index for "The C Programming >> >> Language" for recursion,

RE: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
1 1:47 PM > To: PHP General > Subject: Re: [PHP] phpsadness > > The original PHP Sadness page didn't actually make me sad. This thread, > however, *is*. Can we all agree that we have different opinions on what > makes an appropriate joke and move on? > > Here's to

RE: [PHP] phpsadness - P.C. shmee seee.

2011-06-03 Thread Daevid Vincent
> >> Reminds me (obliquely) of an entry in the index for "The C Programming > >> Language" for recursion, which points right back to that index page. I > >> about doubled over when I first discovered it. > > > >That's hilarious. I love subtle humor like that. This whole thread seems to echo t

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Haig Dedeyan
On 11-06-03 04:47 PM, David Harkness wrote: The original PHP Sadness page didn't actually make me sad. This thread, however, *is*. Can we all agree that we have different opinions on what makes an appropriate joke and move on? Here's to less sadness in the world . . . David Here's some joy fo

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread David Harkness
The original PHP Sadness page didn't actually make me sad. This thread, however, *is*. Can we all agree that we have different opinions on what makes an appropriate joke and move on? Here's to less sadness in the world . . . David

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Lind
On 3 June 2011 20:42, tedd wrote: > At 4:23 PM +0200 6/3/11, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" >> <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>  >>    That's correct.  If it causes too much userland confusion, we can >>  >> alias it as detonate() as well.

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread tedd
At 4:23 PM +0200 6/3/11, Peter Lind wrote: On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" <tedd.sperl...@gmail.com> wrote: >>That's correct. If it causes too much userland confusion, we can >> alias it as detonate() as well. > Yes, to be preceded with: > echo('Alah

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Butera
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Marc Guay wrote: > What's PHP?  I thought this was the > top-posting-etiquette-discussion-and-simmering-race-war group. > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > I just wanted to do my part to

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Marc Guay
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Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Butera
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Jasper Mulder wrote: > >> Stuart Dallas wrote: >> >> [SNIP] >> >> And this is where we disagree. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and >> they're also entitled to express that opinion, whether through humour or >> simple statement. > > Somehow in your response I

RE: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Jasper Mulder
> Stuart Dallas wrote: > > [SNIP] > > And this is where we disagree. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, and > they're also entitled to express that opinion, whether through humour or > simple statement. Somehow in your response I taste that you don't like people, whose opinion is that not eve

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Stuart Dallas
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On 3 June 2011 17:36, Stuart Dallas wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Peter Lind > wrote: > >> > >> On Jun 3, 2011 4:52 PM, "Paul M Foster" > wrote: > >> > > >> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Peter Lind wrote: > >> > > >

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 22:14, Paul M Foster wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:02:26PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: >> >>> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: >>> > >>> > So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty param

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Lind
On 3 June 2011 17:36, Stuart Dallas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Peter Lind wrote: >> >> On Jun 3, 2011 4:52 PM, "Paul M Foster" wrote: >> > >> > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Peter Lind wrote: >> > >> > > On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" wrote: >> > > > >> > > > At 1:02 P

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Quadling
On 3 June 2011 16:14, Peter Lind wrote: > Admiring people that insult an entire religion? Really, it does not take > chutzpah, it just takes ignorance or stupidity to do something like that. > Nothing admirable about it. So says the man with muppet for an avatar! -- Richard Quadling Twitter :

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Stuart Dallas
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Peter Lind wrote: > On Jun 3, 2011 4:52 PM, "Paul M Foster" wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Peter Lind wrote: > > > > > On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" wrote: > > > > > > > > At 1:02 PM -0400 6/2/11, Daniel Brown wrote: > > > >> > > > >> O

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Daniel Brown
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 22:14, Paul M Foster wrote: > On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:02:26PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: >> > >> > So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to explode >> > the host machine? >> >>     That's cor

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Lind
On Jun 3, 2011 4:52 PM, "Paul M Foster" wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Peter Lind wrote: > > > On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" wrote: > > > > > > At 1:02 PM -0400 6/2/11, Daniel Brown wrote: > > >> > > >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: > > >>> > > >>> > > >

RE: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread admin
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Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Marc Guay
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Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Paul M Foster
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:23:54PM +0200, Peter Lind wrote: > On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" wrote: > > > > At 1:02 PM -0400 6/2/11, Daniel Brown wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>> So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters t

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Quadling
On 3 June 2011 15:23, Peter Lind wrote: >> echo('Alaho Akbar'); > Nice ... any idea how many people you just insulted there? Not me! You can quote any religious clap-trap. I won't be offended! -- Richard Quadling Twitter : EE : Zend : PHPDoc @RQuadling : e-e.com/M_248814.html : bit.ly/9O8vFY :

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Lind
On Jun 3, 2011 3:48 PM, "tedd" wrote: > > At 1:02 PM -0400 6/2/11, Daniel Brown wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: >>> >>> >>> So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to explode >>> the host machine? >> >> >>That's correct. If it causes to

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-03 Thread tedd
At 1:02 PM -0400 6/2/11, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to explode the host machine? That's correct. If it causes too much userland confusion, we can alias it as detonate() as well.

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-02 Thread Paul M Foster
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 01:02:26PM -0400, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: > > > > So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to explode > > the host machine? > > That's correct. If it causes too much userland confusion, we can > al

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-02 Thread Tamara Temple
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Philip Thompson wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to explode the host machine? That's correct. If it causes too

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-02 Thread Philip Thompson
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: > > > > So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to > explode > > the host machine? > >That's correct. If it causes too much userland confusion, we can > alias it a

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-06-02 Thread Daniel Brown
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 22:13, Bill Guion wrote: > > So if I understand, you want an explode() with empty parameters to explode > the host machine? That's correct. If it causes too much userland confusion, we can alias it as detonate() as well. -- Network Infrastructure Manager http://www

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-31 Thread Jim Lucas
On 5/28/2011 12:34 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: > Hello Nathan, > > Do you mean $x{8}? > That is good but not for all situations. > I need sometimes to make an array with letters as keys and numbers as > values, like this (I give English alphabet just as an example, so > please don't suggest

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-31 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-05-31 02:54 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 14:56, Robert Cummings wrote: Personally, I prefer the exception. Logically, I can take 0 from something an infinite number of times... zero seems a far cry from this. To properly determine the intent of a division by zero, I th

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-31 Thread Daniel Brown
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 14:56, Robert Cummings wrote: > > Personally, I prefer the exception. Logically, I can take 0 from something > an infinite number of times... zero seems a far cry from this. To properly > determine the intent of a division by zero, I think the programmer SHOULD > have to ha

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-29 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-05-28 08:36 PM, TR Shaw wrote: Well the argument has both sides. Division by zero on many platforms resulted in zero. Then came IBM360 and it generated an exception causing big time issues in legacy code so a OS patch was written to intercept the interrupt, jam the result to zero and ret

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread TR Shaw
Well the argument has both sides. Division by zero on many platforms resulted in zero. Then came IBM360 and it generated an exception causing big time issues in legacy code so a OS patch was written to intercept the interrupt, jam the result to zero and return. Although mathematically undefined

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Andre Polykanine wrote: > Hello Nathan, > > Do you mean $x{8}? > yup, that or $x[8]; > That is good but not for all situations. > I need sometimes to make an array with letters as keys and numbers as > values, like this (I give English alphabet just as an

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Andre Polykanine
Hello Nathan, Do you mean $x{8}? That is good but not for all situations. I need sometimes to make an array with letters as keys and numbers as values, like this (I give English alphabet just as an example, so please don't suggest str_split): $alphabet="abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"; // I wish

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Andre Polykanine
Hello Peter, It's not unicode... :-(( Yepp, I saw this thing in notes with array_map, array_chunk and array_something_else but it's still too slow, on my opinion. -- With best regards from Ukraine, Andre Skype: Francophile My blog: http://oire.org/menelion (mostly in Russian) Twitter: htt

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 4:33 AM, Robert Cummings wrote: > On 11-05-28 05:26 AM, Andre Polykanine wrote: > >> Hello Lester, >> >> Actually, many of the points are not important for me so far, however >> this one really drives me mad: >> http://phpsadness.com/?page=sad/35 (can't explode() by

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-05-28 05:26 AM, Andre Polykanine wrote: Hello Lester, Actually, many of the points are not important for me so far, however this one really drives me mad: http://phpsadness.com/?page=sad/35 (can't explode() by an empty string) Besides that, he says nothing about unicode issues. I

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Peter Lind
On May 28, 2011 11:27 AM, "Andre Polykanine" wrote: > > Hello Lester, > > Actually, many of the points are not important for me so far, however > this one really drives me mad: > http://phpsadness.com/?page=sad/35 (can't explode() by an empty > string) http://www.php.net/manual/en/functio

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Andre Polykanine
Hello Lester, Actually, many of the points are not important for me so far, however this one really drives me mad: http://phpsadness.com/?page=sad/35 (can't explode() by an empty string) Besides that, he says nothing about unicode issues. I love PHP (I really do, it's a neat language,

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-28 Thread Lester Caine
Daevid Vincent wrote: A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points and I certainly share in his frustration. http://www.phpsadness.com I'd take him a bit more seriously if he used a real name ;) But many of the points I looked at simply reflect that he has yet to

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-27 Thread Daniel Brown
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 17:59, Robert Cummings wrote: > > It's common trait of whiners to give criticism but not take any :) Where's my "Like" button when I need it? -- Network Infrastructure Manager http://www.php.net/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, vi

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-05-27 05:54 PM, Nathan Nobbe wrote: On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Robert Cummings mailto:rob...@interjinn.com>> wrote: On 11-05-27 03:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points and I certainly shar

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-27 Thread Nathan Nobbe
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Robert Cummings wrote: > On 11-05-27 03:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: > >> A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points >> and I certainly share in his frustration. >> >> http://www.phpsadness.com >> > > What a whiner! > > Many of the t

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On 11-05-27 03:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points and I certainly share in his frustration. http://www.phpsadness.com What a whiner! Many of the things listed are things which give PHP character and history. Cheers, Rob. --

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-27 Thread Richard Quadling
On 27 May 2011 20:52, Daevid Vincent wrote: > A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points > and I certainly share in his frustration. > > http://www.phpsadness.com WOW. That's a LOT of unhappiness. http://twitter.com/#!/topaz2078/status/73982006681276416 -- Rich

Re: [PHP] phpsadness

2011-05-27 Thread David Harkness
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Daevid Vincent wrote: > A friend sent me this URL today. While amusing, he's got many valid points > and I certainly share in his frustration. > > http://www.phpsadness.com > Some points are valid, but many others show a lack of understanding of PHP and OOP in g