2017-03-23



Out of fun and boredom, implemented a function  to  sort  a  two-
dimensional array by arbitrary columns in PHP:

     function flexible_sort($arr, $order) {
             uasort($arr, function($a, $b) use ($order) {
                     $keys = $order;
                     $key = reset($keys);
                     while ($a[$key] == $b[$key]) {
                             $key = next($keys);
                             if ($key === false) {
                                     return 0;
                             }
                     }
                     return ($a[$key] < $b[$key]) ? -1 : 1;
             });
             return $arr;
     }

Maybe the code's too clever.



I programmed this on Windows in  Notepad++  and  tested  it  with
XAMPP.  Tell you what: I was 70% less productive. It started with
the keyboard. These new notebooks all have these flat  top  keys,
where  your  fingers  can't figure out anymore if they sit in the
middle or at the edge of the key. I assume that this must be  re-
lated  to  the  general  loss of tactile importance in the world.
Then they have touchpads that generate clicks  all  the  time.  I
might  be  able  to  agree  that  touchpads  should click when on
touches on it instead of on separate buttons,  but  these  modern
touchpads  are  just  level  with  the area around, thus I always
touch them by accident with the ball of my  hand.  And  then  the
text  editor  itself (after I suffered from a lot of productivity
obstacles already). It is so weak in editing facilities that  one
could  hardly call it an editor. ed(1) for sure offers more. Half
of my work was positioning the cursor. I'm probably  faster  with
ed(1)  than  with Notepad++. Last Windows, where it was a pain to
perform the same operation multiple times.  Well,  I  could  have
been  faster in cmd.exe, but it takes extra effort switching into
there, when all the rest is graphical. So much different on Unix,
where everything is command line.

I cannot figure how anyone can be really  productive  in  such  a
horrible  setup  (hardware,  editor, user interface) as the one I
used today.




http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>