Category Archives: Rants

Bad Signs – PHP’s “Shut Up” (@) Operator

Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Derick Rethans has a post about PHP’s “shut-up” operator (@) and why it should be avoided. He outlines a fairly common debugging scenario and gives some “under-the-hood” explanations on why that particular operator sucks. I couldn’t agree more (that it should be avoided) and I want to go further and talk about something that has [...]
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What drove me away from Apple

Sunday, November 30th, 2008
I recently replaced my Macbook Pro with a Thinkpad x200 running Arch Linux and Windows Vista. After 5 years of using Apple products I decided to switch – to borrow one of their marketing terms – because frankly, I was sick of being abused as a customer and the lock-in was making me less and [...]
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