From a marketing point of view: Great work!
I really like the "slate" logo.
The only thing i didnt' like that much was the font: Espacially the "c" looks strange.
But the rest: Just nice! I would hire you, if my name was ballmer ;)
Hi, (robo)Martin,
My opinion on comments is, that they are extremely useful for functions, classes (f.e. javadoc). It is essential to know, what a part of code does.
In the function body, I think it is much more important to use meaningful variable names. I mean: Do I really have to comment a variable like "numberOfUsers" with a statement "The number of users"?
Of course, variable names need to be really descriptive. And, no, they don't each need a comment. Here's an example, in a recent app I had to slice an image based on a given number of rows and columns. The variables were named:
int image_rows;
int image_columns;
The actual code, with comment, went something like this:
// These variables will determine how the image is sliced.
// They are bounds-limited in code to max values imposed by hardware and
// defined in configuration_settings.h
int image_rows;
int image_columns;
A year from now I won't need to read far into the code to understand what they do.
Hi bad_user and thanks for your comment. I don't really know why you're calling it "sensationalist yellow junk". In my eyes its news and therefor worth beeing on "hacker news".
Have a nice day.
Cool thing! PHP is really great if you want to get things done in a quick-and-easy way but it also tends do get a little messy! This article is also good for people (like me) using PHP in a pure functional way (=no classes) - You others may now boo :)
