Unfortunately I've found some games play well on wine on one computer, but have some odd behaviour/crashes on another, due to nvidia vs ati

Rather annoying, I'd like to have civ iv run well on my laptop :)

The Linksys WET11 makes a great, cheap repeater

:17180 I was just going to ask for a question to be closed as duplicate.

Seems like people thought it was (and in fairness, it is) but couldn't or wouldn't mark to close it.

@MarcoCeppi Could also do it too.

:17188 I did. A point that somebody raised on meta is there just aren't that many people who have the points to close things that need closing. That thread is an uber-duplicate.

I miss the limited moderation tools that the highest band get +(

only 917 points to go

Two weeks? I'll do it in one ;)

Yeah been hitting the cap for the past few days I think

Bit annoying when you get upvotes and can't get the delicious points... Shame they don't carry over to the next day

Ooo. 100 days tomorrow.

:17225 Yup.

Somebody beat me to it (not surprised as I was quite late to the game)

Oh wow. You can click the visited count and it'll show you a calendar of when you visited!

If he wants it, I think @JorgeCastro should be given the ♦ of wrath +5

He does a lot of post-improvement.

We need elections? Perhaps it should be points-biased. Me and my 9k votes for him. Motion carried?

array_unshift?

@MarcoCeppi $arr = array_reverse($arr); arr[] = "blah"; $arr = array_reverse($arr);

That's PHP for you :)

Just as another option

:17263 You might be surprised how many languages do do that

it's effectively prepend vs append?

I thought Java arrays were immutable...

Been a long while. You needed Vectors back when I used it.

But I assume its generics have replaced those with some sort of List (appears to be a fashionable name)

I'm too used to python now

Amen. I don't miss VB.NET, C#, PHP or Java

I especially don't miss PHP.

I have to do quite a bit of PHP at work

The others had a touch of class. PHP was filth. However elegant you wanted your code, it always became mucky tag-soup.

Unfortunately PHP doesn't seem to be the most consistent of languages at times

It's just too easy to hack bits in anywhere you like in whatever style you want. That inevitably leads to somebody doing just that and hacking ugly bits of code into places just to make something work. Before you know it, you have fifteen different code styles, 0-readability in the code, naff-all documentation for the hacks (because they're inline) and you can't work out why something doesn't work or why performance is shoddy.

Django just blows it away for 90% of applications. Even simple templating jobs.

Except that it's a lot harder to get django on extremely cheap shared hosting, which is where a lot of the bad PHP code ends up :)

just use a functional programming language like haskell - bad programmers scared away, case closed. :P

That's true but you can host Django on "quite" cheap hosting. Still I'll admit it's probably at least three times the price of the cheapest possible PHP host.

:17284 Never really seen the appeal. Probably means I'm a shoddy developer.

hehe "in our company bad programmers get promoted to lead positions because the business guys think they wont be programming anymore"

:17289 Oh god. If you've only perl to compare it to...