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Re: ING Direct Drops Interest Rate From 4.5% to 4.3% APY

Baz L — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 21:00:07 -0000

Now that was kinda my point earlier. What is the point of jumping ship? Everybody's rate is going to be cut.

And 20 minutes for work? Please...Maybe for you guys, but because of my set up I personally would not be able to make these changes. I would need to contact all the places that I have either direct depositing of withdrawing from my ING account and update routing and account numbers.

Now I don't know how much money you guys have in these accounts. Maybe it's well worth it for you, but with what I got in there, all this work is not worth $0.30 a month.

Re: PHP Developers, Keep me Sane

Baz L — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:54:01 -0000

Yeah, PHP is funny that way.

I open use it to suppress errors from file manipulations (delete, etc). Whatever happened to the good old days of coding when stuff returned 0 on success? Exceptions have their purpose, but I think sometimes that PHP's gone exception crazy.

Re: Website layout dimensions today

Baz L — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:11:08 -0000

It's a simple numbers game actually. The stats on 800x600 sites come at about under 3%, the last time I checked.

But, this question has no right/wrong answer. It all depends on design time, target audience, design type, etc.

If you've got the time, then I guess you can try a fluid design. I don't like them, because they tend to stretch out too wide sometimes. Also, I'm just lazy that way.

For general business websites, I tend to go with a smaller width, since the audience is wider and may include lil' old grandmas with 5 year old computers. On blogs and graphical sites, I go a bit wider, sine the audience would be expected to have slightly newer PCs.

Type of design also plays a big role. More graphical sites tend to demand a larger display.

Re: 10 Reasons why Ruby is better than PHP - Reason #2

Baz L — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:02:23 -0000

I'm not even sure what to make of this. IHMO, it seems a more fitting title for your post would be: "10 reasons why [I] like Ruby better than PHP."

To argue the term "better" with "evidence" like yours is sort of misguided.

The lack of a [return] statement hardly makes a language better. Don't get me wrong, I think that Ruby is better than PHP, but your reasons leave a lot to be desired and may be misleading.

eg. I hate the lack of braces in Ruby; does that mean I think PHP is "better"? Based on your arguments (so far) C == PHP because you're focusing on syntax.

Hey, I'm just saying...

Re: 10 Reasons why Ruby is better than PHP - Reason #2

Baz L — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:06:54 -0000

HOWEVER, ... (Whoops...accidentally hit Post and saw that @Chris stole the words out of my mouth.) ... object are sexy in general.

At work, we're making the transition from C++ (and sprinkling of VB, ugh) to C# and it's just been heavenly so far.

Re: 10 Reasons why Ruby is better than PHP - Reason #2

Baz L — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:02:23 -0000

Re: 10 Reasons why Ruby is better than PHP - Reason #2

Baz L — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:06:54 -0000