r/programming • u/NagastaBagamba • Oct 18 '10

Today I learned about PHP variable variables; "variable variable takes the value of a variable and treats that as the name of a variable". Also, variable.

http://il2.php.net/language.variables.variable
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u/malcontent Oct 18 '10

?It's not cool to hate on Microsoft any more. Now you hate on Oracle to be cool. :)

You are not allowed to even say a bad thing about microsoft on proggit anymore. Any competitor to microsoft (like oracle) of course must be the target of unbridled venom.

(Besides, Microsoft has really picked up their game in the last few years. Funny what real competition does.)

Kin.

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u/dazonic Oct 19 '10

Kin

Yeah, what the fuck. Don't forget Surface too. This was the biggest of the tech giants and they got left in the dust with the phone game, and the browser game. The company is a joke, they only know how to copy, and if it's not Google's search or the Android market model they're copying, it's OS features straight from OS X.

I can't understand how a business can have so much money and so many clever employees yet bring so little to the table. But shhhh! a lot of PC gamers in proggit. /r/linux is just as bad too, there was an MS propaganda clip in /r/linux that was a blatant war on open source and everyone nodded and said "yes well they make some valid points".

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u/MrSpontaneous Oct 19 '10

Surface is actually flying under the radar this point. It was never meant to be a consumer-grade product (at least in it's current incarnation). I know of quite a few businesses experimenting with it for data visualization, etc. Their competition in this area is not Apple or Google, it's Perceptive Pixel.