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I'm taking a road trip to the New Haven area and will be there Saturday night through Monday. I want to get a feel for the place since my wife is expecting a job offer soon. Given the limited time, I'm mostly interested in day-to-day life - I don't need to do the touristy stuff (I'm sure Yale attractions are great, casinos are casinos). Location doesn't matter much since I have no idea where we'll live yet (other than "not the hill", per r/newhaven)

We love to hike, hope to hit beaches in the summer, hang out at independent coffee shops, breweries with good food and beer. I work 100% remote, so coffee shops and libraries (etc) which are good hangouts for remote workers.

I'm definitely hi

Hey, r/PHP! I haven't written PHP in a few years, but I've really wanted to read (or obtain a copy of) the book which launched my tech career.

Edit: I think we have a winner: https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/9vl8lm/looking_for_a_php_book_from_the_late_90s_which/e9devil/ I bought the copy off ebay for $4 so we'll see when I get it.

The book covered building "dynamic webpages" (iirc) using PHP, with chapters introducing SQL; it was my first introduction to database-backed web apps. I distinctly remember reading the chapter(s) on database connections and SQL queries in 1999 or 2000. Believe it or not, in that era, some HTML experience plus reading a few chapters of a book was really eno

Hello from the CS world! I'm a programmer and giving a crash course for my daughter and her high school classmates who are entering freshman engineering. From an engineer's perspective, what would you cover?

The students are a bit spooked by the thought of learning "programming" as part of their fall semester. My natural response (as a parent of one of them) is to throw them to the wolves and let their (excellent) engineering faculty do what they will do. However, as a programmer dad, I offered to show them some basics before they head to school, mostly to alleviate their anxiety, and they are very interested (in other words, I can't back out now!).

These are all kids who are bright -

For instance, here, you often hear "If you don't like the weather wait 5 minutes and it'll change. That's Indiana weather for you". I don't know the origins of that assertion, but I've heard it said in several states.

What else do states claim is uniquely theirs, but isn't at all?

My day jobs for years have been full(ish) stack developer in Ruby on Rails, so I'm used to very short-term web requests, and occasional longer-running processes in Resque/Sidekiq. I've written plenty of code which connects to remote APIs, authenticates, perform a single action, then disconnect.

I'm working on a project for a 8-hour event later this year. A vendor will be continuously outputting event-related data via a TCP server. I will need to be connected and monitoring nearly 100% of the time (accounting for downtime in case the socket gets disconnected). With a very basic script in IRB, I can successfully connect to their server using the TCPSocket class and get what I need from their

Short of not wearing my watch, any tips for disabling activity tracking for a period? The watch is perfect for mowing - i can glance and see notifications, without my previous fear of dropping it and destroying my phone it in the mower blades when i want to check a notification while mowing...

I realize the goals are "just numbers", but i find them very motivating and would like to earn my achievements!

Or, gasp, is there a better app that only tracks activity while working out?

From the sidebar:

Are you curious about the real America, not the cheap product you see on TV?    

Well, what IS accurately portrayed? What films can others consume to help them understand a slice of life in America with relative accuracy?

EDIT: I think a movie can portray an aspect of american life quite well. A whole film doesn't have to be perfect - which part of the movie was accurate? For instance, scenes in E.T. portrayed teenagers hanging out at mom's house playing D&D, ordering pizza, and whatnot, and I always found it relatable to my personal experience

First timers in Aus and will be in Melbourne for a week. Our wedding anniversary is the day we fly back, and we'd like to do something special the Saturday night before. (the day of, we'll have breakfast twice, in MEL and Los Angeles, which is kinda romantic in a way, but not particularly fancy)

All our research has indicated tons of great dining (in addition to coffee). Most of the week, we're planning to be spontaneous - wander the laneways and places like Lygon St and see what looks interesting. ([This recent r/melbourne post will be super helpful!](https://www.reddit.com/r/melbourne/comments/3m1a00/whats_your_favourite_cheap_eat_in_the_cbd/))

I haven't a clue where I can get reservatio