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Russia Adding $50 Billion To Space Effort

Russia Adding $50 Billion To Space Effort

Russian President Vladimir Putin unveiled today a new $50 billion effort to maintain and extend the country’s space capabilities. Part of this initiative is a new spaceport located in Russia, which will lead to the first manned launches from Russian soil in 2018. Manned launches currently originate from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

On one hand, it’s nice to see that they are at least pretending to pick the good causes.  On the other hand, it sad that history shows that very little of these money, if any at all, will make it to the space programs.  Most of it will disappear in the same way as before…

PHP is meant to die

PHP is meant to die

This one is not your average PHP bashing.  It only covers one, but rather generic, problem with PHP – dying, no matter what.  Personally, I am familiar with the problem and I had to work around it as well (that’s how Locker came to be), but I’ve never had a project with high enough load to trigger a major issue.

There’s more to this. If you’ve used PHP an awful lot , you may have experienced this very weird issue:

Fatal error: Exception thrown without a stack frame in Unknown on line 0

What does that mean? I honestly have no idea. I can’t find the line #0 into an unknown PHP file.