colshrapnel

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by colshrapnel 3y ago
It seems Stack Overflow is fiercely opposed to such changes. So I am posting here out of naive hope that may be some startup will find this idea worthy. It's still looks very consistent to me
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Faced with reduced traffic, StackOverflow must change its attitude towards users(meta.stackoverflow.com)
2 points by colshrapnel 3y ago|1 comments
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I know how to make Stack Overflow a nice place(phpdelusions.net)
2 points by colshrapnel 4y ago|0 comments
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PHP Language Evolution(github.com)
1 points by colshrapnel 7y ago|0 comments
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
So, given you "don't care what happens to PHP", I assume you don't give much heed to whether it's winning or dying. That's basically what @deanclatworthy is saying, so there is nothing to fight about. Cheers!
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
Firefox Focus is also a thing. A permanent incognito mode browser is an ideal candidate for the default browser position.
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
I remember reading an article about Ben Underwood[1]. It was headlined with something like a blind boy can play video games using an echolocation. It turned out he just remembers the right succession of moves after a lot of try and fails. O
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
"escaping input" is a notorious delusion. And a bad one. - it is not "input" must be treated , but, so to say - output. It's the destination that matters, not the source. By the time you get the input, you have no
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
You'd laugh at me, but I am still using a LiveJournal clone - Dreamwidth. This pre-social network is quite comfortable to be in. It is, so-to say, non-invasive. You'd never see a post from someone you didn't subscribe to. The
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
What are you talking about is just a syntax. Which is not an issue for a PHP dev nowadays. I am typing much more custom method names than vanilla PHP functions. And when I have, my IDE shows me the right syntax after a few keystrokes. So, i
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by colshrapnel 7y ago
And on its quest towards JIT the language becomes less and less dynamically typed. strict_types=1 is already a standard in most major applications and all the cleanup that has been done already, such as count() raises an error if you try to
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
I always wanted to have an incognito browser as default option on my mobile. Recently I chanced to discover Firefox Focus on Google Play and that's exactly what I wanted. Now it's the default option to open random links, whereas C
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
If your goal is to post, then SO is excellent. But if your goal is also to read, there are questions. Nobody ever tried to use Stack Overflow without Google yet. given all its bell and whistles are intended for those who want to post, there
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
And here comes the question of maintainability. For the code, we are trying to have a single repository to avoid duplicates and to have just a single place to make changes. That's what a wiki is good for. Whereas for such a dispersed k
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
Yes, and it makes Stack Overflow more like an imageboard than a documentation project. So I have doubts whether it can be used for the purpose especially with Google removed from the equation.
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
Stack Overflow has very small experience with reusing the knowledge, aimed primarily at providing fast on-site answers, for questions too localized for reuse. I have doubts in its ability to provide a solid documentation base, given a flop
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
SO is bad with search, entirely giving it away for Google to find relevant answers. In a wiki, at least I can follow the structure to find relevant pages, but in the heap of badly phrased questions it will be a pain to find anything relevan
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by colshrapnel 8y ago
Stack Overflow largely relies on Google Search, but for private teams it won't be available. And internal search is just unreliable. Also I fail to see how answers on SO for Teams are supposed to be less "stale" than your old
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
It it will break BC, then don't use it? You guys are using every dirty trick invented for internet discussions in the last 30 years. You said it dosen't exist. When I showed the way to get it, the agrument should stop this very
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
Facebook and Wikipedia?
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
That's just your speculations that you are trying to pull here, to support your point of view that contradicts with the real world evidence (PHP is popular). Honestly, you are claiming that all these people are dumb and lazy. I respect
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
Come on, choose one. Either PHP is easy but insane or it is not that easy, at least compared Python? Sorry, I can't get your exact idea.
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
You can make them throw actually. set_error_handler("myErrorHandler"); function myErrorHandler($errno, $errstr, $errfile, $errline) { throw new Exception($errstr, $errno); } Is all you need. They are functions - yes. If your f
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
You guys are so fixed on that standard library thing that I am getting scared. In a way, it's the best compliment PHP can get, means nitpicking on the function names is all they can blame PHP for. Nevertheless, for me it never was a pr
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
I've got a real good advise for you. Get yourself a good IDE with a code-completion feature . Trust me, the very next day you'll forget your grief :)
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
I pity you (no offense intended). Really. One of my own biggest fears is that it may happen that I would have to earn my living by doing things I hate. May be your hate is entirely from the fact that you are forced to work with the tool you
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
"keeping the ship from sinking" - surely you are a borad member for Facebook, Badoo, Dailymotion. I appreciate your first hand evidence. Come on, if a handful inconsistent function names is all the problem with PHP to you, let me
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
"that doesn't say PHP is good" - what are you trying to say here? That they hate PHP but keep working with it? You see, that's a hater's logic. Every PHP's advantage or eviddence you've given, you are tryi
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
"PHP is inconsistent" is a myth cherished by haters. Besides, real world evidence is against your theoritical musings.
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by colshrapnel 10y ago
So you are blaming PHP's excellent backward compatibility. Why I am not surprised? :)

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