Firehed

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by Firehed 14y ago
That's a bad code problem, not a PHP problem. Why does this meme continue to exist? This is a PHP bug: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010511-php-floating-po... Everything else? Bad code.
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by Firehed 14y ago
And ding your credit history? No thanks. I would definitely charge back every unauthorized charge they make, and charge it back again if they fight it and win (yes, you can do this, and yes, it does work). It's not worth their time to figh
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by Firehed 14y ago
Is it unreasonable? I'd recommend Hover too, and also would have used my affiliate link. If I didn't have one I'd still happily recommend them, but if it doesn't cost you anything why shouldn't I get a cut? That's kind of the point of aff
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by Firehed 14y ago
Gearman is pretty solid once you have it working, but it can be a huge pain to get to that point. We spent probably two years (on-and-off, of course) tweaking code to get our framework talking nicely to gearman. PHP's gearman-manager librar
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by Firehed 14y ago
People questioned and attacked his intelligence because of his actions, not because of his race and/or gender. I'd suggest that people who want to attack someone for whatever reason will go after low-hanging fruit (being some sort of statis
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by Firehed 14y ago
I imagine most developers can tell the difference between 'pursuing' and 'stalking'.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Being confrontational also brings the issue to light and may take us one step closer to solving the problem. Simply ignoring the matter (as uncomfortable as it would be to deal with both as a victim and as someone who doesn't want to put th
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by Firehed 14y ago
Are you writing this for yourself or to share? If the latter, optimize readability for people who don't understand regexes. As for commenting the end of loops - that too just improves readability, especially in long functions. If your edit
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by Firehed 14y ago
$3000 is quite low in my experience (depends on your processing volume; I've seen high tens to mid hundreds of thousands of dollars) - although reserves typically aren't applied as 100% of your transactions until you meet them. Normally it'
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by Firehed 14y ago
I skimmed the PDF and didn't see what you're referring to; however, I did see it explicitly point out the in effectiveness of "security" questions.
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by Firehed 14y ago
It's a trade off between that and allowing some random stranger to transfer your money if you get up and forget to lock your computer. Our first alpha didn't have the auto-logout and by far the most common piece of feedback we got was that
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by Firehed 14y ago
Why have speed limits at all then? I've heard anecdotes of professional drivers getting out of massive speeding tickets because they know how to handle a vehicle at that speed (and presumably had the good sense not to be driving way faster
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by Firehed 14y ago
Uh, no - this is more of a "don't execute code in a textbox" thing.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Likewise. I got a similar message several months back, but that wasn't part of a larger leak; apparently some website I'd used a while ago had been compromised and I was using my throwaway password on Twitter at the time. Suffice to say, i
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by Firehed 14y ago
My understanding is that ntpd corrects clock drift by replaying milliseconds consecutively, not by actually jumping back. However I can't remember where I read that and could be totally wrong.
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by Firehed 14y ago
@ is extremely slow. @$arr['key'] is the same as $er = error_reporting(0); $arr['$key']; error_reporting($er); unset($er); Probably more importantly is that the internal errors are still being raised, there's j
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by Firehed 14y ago
No more or less than Cake, Zend, CodeIgniter, ... Heck, the second Google hit for "php mvc framework" for me was a 2009 guide to writing your own (talk about not getting the point of a framework). There were two more pages in the top ten fo
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by Firehed 14y ago
What lack of separation? Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever actually tried to use PHP in a non-web context? Running "./foo.php" is just as easy as "./foo.py", "./foo.rb", etc. All of these complains seem to come from people th
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'd say it started closer to making C more accessible for web programming (no fussing with pointers, memory allocation, bounds checks, etc), which incidentally makes it really easy to present content. It's also the reason for the inane nami
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by Firehed 14y ago
I'd be more concerned about the PPC ads leading to a 500 error.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I imagine he means the ability to deploy code to prod at will, not full access to their database.
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by Firehed 14y ago
Indeed. I think the best correlation may be that if someone is already inclined to commit mass violence, they may be able to improve their technique for practicing murder with a violent video game by studying various reactions by human and
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by Firehed 14y ago
Sounds like the precise idea behind the Do Not Track header. No idea if MixPanel respects it; I'll let one of them answer.
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by Firehed 14y ago
magic_quotes has been deprecated for three and a half years, and widely understood to be a bad idea for around a decade. If you don't check your configs when moving to a new host, you get what's coming to you.
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by Firehed 14y ago
That's a developer incompetence problem, not a PHP problem. If python or ruby was as trivially easy to get running (read: preinstalled everywhere), then they would be the lowest barrier to entry and have the exact same problems.
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by Firehed 14y ago
That tells us nothing, except that TC copy and pasted some content off a blog. Unless they're quoting an email from Square or Keith that at least confirms its his blog (they are not), then it's perfectly reasonable to be skeptical here.
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by Firehed 14y ago
You're pretty close to the mark - at least for a company doing that much payment volume. Maybe closer to 1.8% or so. There's dozens of variables (debit vs credit, issuing bank, network, international, chargeback rates, etc...) so it's hard
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by Firehed 14y ago
Definitely the right way to think about it - lawyers (or network technicians) as cost-saving tools, rather than direct expenses. Hire the $2600/hr guy and be done in ten minutes because of his fifteen years experience and deep knowledge of
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by Firehed 14y ago
Works great for cigarettes.
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by Firehed 14y ago
I think the point was that Jobs was working with the teams as a contributor more than a dictator. It very specifically pointed out that Jobs' ideas were decoupled from his role as CEO (as were everyone else's) so there were just lots of ide

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