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PHP 5.3.3 hangs on numeric value 2.2250738585072011e-308
I stumbled upon a very strange bug in PHP; this statement sends it into an infinite loop:
Paul Buchheit: Angel investing, my first three years
I started investing in startups with the assumption that I don't know what I'm doing (which is always true), but that the only way to actual...
Eric Meyer's Reset Revisited
It was close to four years ago now that I first floated (ha!), publicly refined, and then published at its own home what's become known as the
I Eliminated the Free Plan from my Web App for a Month: Here’s What Happened.
Background In January 2010 I launched Preceden, a free web-based timeline tool. In May I migrated to a freemium plan, where users could add a certain number of events for free but had to upgrade to…
RSS Is Dying, and You Should Be Very Worried
RSS makes it possible for me to check 100s of sites a day. I only actually implicitly go and read two, everything else goes through the RSS reader. If I didn’t have RSS then I wouldn’t bother keeping an eye on that many sites in the first place. Because me and you—dear technical readers—don’t have to suffer that…
Charlie Stross: Reasons to be Cheerful
Elsewhere on the interwebbytubes, an acquaintance asked, somewhat grumpily, if anything good had happened in the past decade (aside from the iPod).