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Microsoft arms half-wit developers with PHP handgun

theregister.co.uk

21 pointstwampss10 comments

Regardless of your fan-boy affiliation, this article is a fun read. But don't waste your time if the following quote is not your cup of tea.

  Much like an Englishman debating an American, Google
  is trying to keep the level of discourse high and
  sophisticated. Our American Microsoft, on the other
  hand, has just sucker-punched the Englishman in the
  mouth and yelled "YEAH WHERE'S YOUR VOCABULARY NOW?"

DISCLAIMER: I find this article amusing and witty.

Just remember, when these attitudes were translated to actions (both military and commercial), the Americans won.

Never count out the quick and dirty in the software world. Sometimes a determined half-wit can beat the pants off a high-minded academic even with inferior technology.

Personally the following quote was the one which made me laugh the most: "The PHP developers have failed, well, because they're PHP developers. Microsoft has failed because they're acting as that unscrupulous dealer who provides PHP to people that probably shouldn't have access to it."

This is without a doubt the most inflammatory, outrageous and entertaining thing I've read on theregister in ages.

The author tries way too hard. There is no nuanced wit; it's like a stand-up comedian going on stage and yelling, "LOL BALLS."

In other words, it's classic Ted Dziuba. It looks like uncov is gone (again), but he has been posting pieces like this for years.

If MS won't support PHP than they are big bad boy of the IT world, if they do they are wrong again???

If you bag MS please make it worth while...

I don't get it. Do we really care if Microsoft and a bunch of incompetent developers enjoy epic fail on the Azure platform?

Good point. I'd hazard a "No, we don't"

I flag this moreso for the conversation it's spawned than the original content by Dzuiba at The Register.

If Dzuiba's opinionated snark could just live on its original site, it might occasionally merit a little attention -- for the scraps of topicality and insight mixed with the bilious style.

But unfortunately just by pointing at it, we get a little of its sewage back on us. It seems that even 'one-way' links leak back a little; the series of tubes runs both ways. So our comment threads become a little more like the greywater and blackwater in TechCrunch and Valleywag threads.

We can mop up after the fact with comment downvotes but the best policy is not to link to the internet's open latrines in the first place.

thereg are such linkbaiters and ragers :P but the annoying (or good I suppose) thing is that they actually have good points to make inside all of the irony.

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