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Comment on On Leaving Twitter by Randall "texrat" Arnold

Randall "texrat" Arnold — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:28:16 +0000

David, where do you have this alleged < 30 minute commute? No such thing for professionals here in the Dallas area…

Comment on On Leaving Twitter by Dave K.

Dave K. — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 20:48:58 +0000

Thanks for posting this… and its good to know the Bay Area is as wacky as ever. Seems like the hiring auto-mata machine… hasn’t broken quite yet (and just leave it to SF to tests its strength). I think it is very hard to succeed in SF, too many barriers to entry (though that is have the fun). Sometimes contextual dialog and specific discourse groups (or nano memes), have a way of distancing whole persons from the main action in a company. I still don’t get it, but being smart clearly isn’t the only thing involved in the tech business.

Comment on Crosspost Tweets to Facebook by Rav Casley Gera

Rav Casley Gera — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:50:08 +0000

Great work. I particularly commend you supporting both pages and profiles, which too few such apps/services do.

Comment on On Leaving Twitter by Dan

Dan — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 17:56:39 +0000

In this age of software you have to look at the google model, get some gray hairs in the management team for experience. A lot of you young people just do not have the work experience to work successfully in a startup. “In the old days” people would put in some HP or Oracle time and then go to a startup. Many of you are just going straight to a startup without having business experience. Of course adding philosophy or literature majors to your companies without business experience doesn’t help either.

Comment on On Leaving Twitter by David Russell

David Russell — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:32:55 +0000

Thank you for sharing. I now work for a smaller company . . . in a cubicle next to the owner. It has been a major adjustment from suits to jeans but overall – the best decision I’ve ever made. It has allowed me to do what I love and to go home on time each day.

Thanks again for sharing and good luck.

Comment on On Leaving Twitter by Twitter Is A Big Mess, Says Fleeing Engineer | Ohhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

Twitter Is A Big Mess, Says Fleeing Engineer | Ohhhh!!!!!!!!!!! — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:47:24 +0000

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Comment on On Leaving Twitter by David Petersen

David Petersen — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:21:37 +0000

I can’t believe you took a job with a 3 hour round trip commute in the first place. We look to hire employees with a commute of < 30 minutes — it's such a quality of life boost that I think in the long run reflects in a happier, more productive culture.

Comment on XML string to PHP array by ad

ad — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:06:18 +0000

@Ben: could you make a patch and submit a pull request to https://github.com/gaarf/XML-string-to-PHP-array ?

Comment on XML string to PHP array by Ben

Ben — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 22:52:13 +0000

One slight mod (added code) to the github.com code repository fixes both the “empty to array” issue and the “non printing zeros issue” for me (swiping @Jonathan’s code and modifying it slightly):

From the clean code at github.com above the line “$output[$t][] = $v;” put the following :

if(empty($v) && $v !== '0') { $v = ""; }

This enables the zeros to show up in the array, otherwise zeros in the xml like 0 show up as empty.

Again, fantastic code. The best XML to Array PHP function out there, hands down. This code should be polished/vetted and incorporated into the PHP core functions at a lower level, really. Would save a lot of people a lot of frustration.

Comment on On Leaving Twitter by David D

David D — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 16:17:31 +0000

Good luck with your career move. I totally agree with Dave English’s post. Twitter always frustrated me with its character limits.