...ontempt for PHP, much of the Web was built on its back. PHP powers 39 percent of all domains, by one estimate. Facebook, Wikipedia, and the leading publishing platform WordPress are all PHP projects. That’s because PHP, for all its flaws, is perfect for getting started. The name originally stood for “personal home page.” It made it easy to add dynamic content like the date or a user’s name to static HTML pages. PHP allowed the leap from tinkering with a website to writing a Web application to be so small as to be imperceptible. You didn’t need to be a pro.
How Companies and Services Like Facebook Are Shaped by the Programming Languages They Use | MIT Technology Review
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This Monday, Banana Republic pretty much stunned the world with the unveiling of its Startup Guy line of clothing. While it seems that Banana Republic no longer has the line featured on its website, the collection of looks displayed on Monday were replete with perfectly tailored chinos, exposed ankles, and cris... 41 Startup Guys Show Us What They ACTUALLY Wear to Work
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You had me at “a half-tucked shirt…”
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...n needs a ride across the river. The waters are rising on account of climate change, or perhaps he has been priced out of his burrow, who knows? The exact reason is lost in the fog of pre-modernity. The Frog is afraid that the Scorpion will sting him, but his would-be passenger reassures him that they would both die if that happened. That would be crazy. Sure enough, halfway across, the Scorpion stings the Frog. Just before they drown, the Scorpion says, “Aren’t you going to ask why I did that?” And the Frog croaks, “You do you.”
How ‘You Do You’ Perfectly Captures Our Narcissistic Culture - NYTimes.com
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“When we were kids we had photos but we didn’t know what life stream (he emphasized that he calls it “life stream” and not live stream) was…so we didn’t have the tools yet to understand what’s a good life stream. When live video comes it’s still into an exploratory phase. We’re in an exploratory phase,” he said.
Meerkat And Periscope Enter Their Awkward Phase
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...try to reach into the core FB use case of “share photos with your friends.” Other examples: we shouldn’t add more verbs (checkins) to the system just because more social web actions are invented. And our strength is in public, one-to-many communications which suggests that private or group messaging is less a solid fit. (I think the right way to pursue some of these ideas is under separate brands than as Twitter.)
A Product Manager’s Farewell — Let’s not pretend we have it all figured out — Medium
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... unstandardized parameters by prefixing the names of unstandardized parameters with the string "X-" or similar constructs. In practice, that convention causes more problems than it solves. Therefore, this document deprecates the convention for newly defined parameters with textual (as opposed to numerical) names in application protocols. Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the I...
RFC 6648 - Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols
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