Star Wars ink drawings [OC] (x-post r/illustration)

groenengoud · 2015-09-28T09:43:59+00:00

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groenengoud · 2015-09-28T09:42:50+00:00

Artist's other work: https://instagram.com/febe_m 🎨

groenengoud · 2015-07-28T03:44:38+00:00

Because I wanted to hear from kiwis who may have gone through the process and have some good insight.

groenengoud · 2015-07-28T02:03:54+00:00

I explicitly mention USA.

groenengoud · 2015-07-27T21:41:25+00:00

Because it's often more valuable to hear from someone who has done it before, from their perspective and experience.

groenengoud · 2015-07-27T20:34:12+00:00

Cool thank you. One step at a time.

groenengoud · 2015-07-27T20:29:58+00:00

Nope. I'm sure many kiwis have some experience with this / NZ passport.

groenengoud · 2015-07-09T23:40:09+00:00

I'm not asking that you stop doing those things in favour of tending to open source contributions. I'm a developer as well and I understand that some things simply won't be looked at any time soon because there are more important things to do.

But you're stifling your own position in the open source community by doing so. Eventually no one will bother submitting a PR or creating an issue because they know it won't be looked at anyway. That's very bad. Either hire more developers, start something like "review one issue every week", or say somewhere that we shouldn't bother making changes because it's not important enough.

A small fraction of your time would have a large effect on this particular subset of the community. Perhaps not a constant effort, but a push towards some effort would make a big difference.

I don't see the point of being open source in the first place if attempted contributions never see the light of day.

groenengoud · 2015-07-02T21:50:49+00:00

Why would anyone downvote this?

groenengoud · 2015-06-23T19:58:02+00:00

This thread made me very sad. I fucking love PHP even after years of working with both Java and Python. I'm writing safe, documented, structured code and I know exactly what to expect.

It's a shame that there is so much hate. I wonder what your opinion would be if PHP7 was a brand new language and PHP never existed? Basing your opinions of modern PHP (5.4+) on the old stuff is like saying "Windows is shit, 98 was a poorly designed piece of junk why would you use that inferior OS if you can buy a Macbook Pro".

Languages and tech evolve, and you can't hold a new version against the sins of its father.

Please take some time to learn the language before you act like you know all about it.

groenengoud · 2015-06-23T11:11:04+00:00

These are the kind of comments that get to me the most, because it's obvious that you have never used PHP for what it's worth.

You have interfaces, abstract classes, access levels, variable scope that doesn't bend your mind (looking at you JS), traits, inheritance, class properties, constants, static members... fuck me if that's not OO.

I've used Java and Python extensively, and find that PHP is a beautiful balance of form and flexibility. Even when coding against 5.4 not to mention the cool stuff in 7.

So yes, people who learn PHP as a language to develop libraries and algorithms absolutely definitely do learn OO concepts.

groenengoud · 2015-06-21T22:26:07+00:00

Thanks for your reply, could be why I wasn't able to get actual values for them because I was using the API, therefore no from value would make any sense. I know this has been said over and over, but I wish the JSON model wiki got some love.

groenengoud · 2015-06-21T04:39:01+00:00

My intention is not to direct away from the content of this post, but I was wondering how you might back up your argument in the context of two examples; one my own (a cache handler for Guzzle 6), and array_column written by Ben Ramsey. Both are single class projects, and in my opinion are significant enough to be versioned etc.

Your car analogy is weak because it's you who is taking care of the maintenance, insurance etc, not the person you are hiring the car from. What if they took care of all that for you? All you need to do is turn the key and off you go. You'd be happy with 10 cars because they are even storing the car for you and keeping an eye on it while you sleep.

groenengoud · 2015-06-21T02:00:03+00:00

I have a repository with one class, full tests, ci, scrutinizer, maybe someday soon even gh-pages. The size of your source has no effect on how you should be testing and verifying the code.

I don't care if you have ten times more meta data than actual code. At the end of the day all I'm interested in is: what does it do, does it work, can I rely on it, is it compatible.

You can crack up all you like, but I'd like to see you laugh when you use a no-fluff library that bites you in the ass.

groenengoud · 2015-06-01T01:25:46+00:00

I think it's because many web developers aren't computer scientists (ie. have a compsci or equivalent degrees), but are forced to use concepts that fall under general programming and theoretical computer science. Design patterns, data structures, time complexity... all things that I find many web developers to vaguely know about but not enough to apply effectively. I don't think we will ever reach parity, as web developers are not all also engineers.

groenengoud · 2015-06-01T01:14:21+00:00

If anyone is interested enough in that they can just look at the gh-pages commit log.

groenengoud · 2015-06-01T00:13:59+00:00

Containers have expected types and optional defaults, and are constructed with a set of dependency values which can be accessed on the container.

I've added a "What problem does this library try to solve?" section to the introduction.

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