dscrd

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by dscrd 11y ago
>Having said this, I've found limited proof that a particular language is any safer than another as it comes down to safe coding policies and risk mitigation strategies. Proof is right there in the article. To have PHP on the live s
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by dscrd 11y ago
1. That you do not require any part of Go (except the obvious ones that are inside the compiled binary) to exist on the live server. 2. That Go is designed as a programming language.
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by dscrd 11y ago
Why would they have a host with PHP installed on the same server where money is handled?! Totally irresponsible. I'm being serious. Unless you have Facebook's resources (and probably not even then) DO NOT USE PHP FOR ANYTHING THAT
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by dscrd 12y ago
"I don't like language arguments." Well, if you like PHP, how could you like language arguments? After all, they always end up destroying your beliefs.
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by dscrd 12y ago
> Any respectable PHP developer nowadays uses a decent framework, and there are many. "There are many" equals "almost all are bad".
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by dscrd 12y ago
No, you're quite wrong there.
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by dscrd 12y ago
No, they also suffer from the pattern misuse pattern and are also slow as hell.
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by dscrd 12y ago
"If PHP developers are made to feel terrible, they will leave and there will be less and less great developers working with PHP." I don't quite see how this might be a problem. Does the author think those people would be less
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by dscrd 12y ago
There are worse things than PHP out there :) Many of the so-called 4th generation languages (i.e. business shits derived from Cobol with DB support bolted in) are totally crazy in this sense. Not only are identifiers often case insensitive,
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by dscrd 12y ago
PHP seems to fall apart in the seams when trying to reach a higher abstraction level. For instance, Symfony 2 tries very hard to include modern OO techniques in there, but the end result is that its performance is incredibly bad. Also, the
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by dscrd 12y ago
"Poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return" vs "Poor people today have hard lives because government benefits don't go far enough to help them live decently&
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by dscrd 12y ago
>I wonder if keeping CVS is not one of the smartest things the OpenBSD project does now. Given that OpenBSD is supposed to be a security-oriented OS, it's slightly weird that they are using a version control system that does not gua
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by dscrd 12y ago
>It would actually promote bad behavior. Can you elaborate on that?
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by dscrd 12y ago
Even though I fully know that I'm being superficial and silly, I cannot help but find it hard to take seriously projects that do not use either git or mercurial for the sources in 2015.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Rust and/or Nim, depending on which will feel better as I learn more.
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by dscrd 12y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html Learning Haskell adds to the mass of things you know, and the volume of that mass determines the level of your general expertise. You asked for tangible things, but it's harder to s
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by dscrd 12y ago
"they should probably steal some more ideas from FreeBSD" Which ideas would you think are worth stealing from there?
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by dscrd 12y ago
A language is often not improved by adding features. Rust has a relatively clean slate (for now), which makes it a vastly better experience.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Did Paypal just remove the issue reporting page or is the link in the article just wrong? https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/security/report-problem
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by dscrd 12y ago
>one of which became rather infamous years later lol mtgox? :) >TBH if a "developer" cringes their nose at a very capable tool, just because it is not the latest "cool" thing, It tells me a lot about them. This is
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by dscrd 12y ago
If misery causes drug abuse, like it seems to do, then obviously making misery more rare is the solution. Legality is one easy step towards that goal, other steps include societal acceptance (i.e. drug users not immediately being regarded a
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by dscrd 12y ago
Have you tried CBSD? Does it compete well against Docker? The documentation seems quite lacking, but then again, so is docker's at the moment too.
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by dscrd 12y ago
The Haskell ecosystem seems to be horribly broken, at least in its default current form. The symptom is that for just about every interesting program out there (let's say, git-annex or yesod), your typical "cabal install" com
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by dscrd 12y ago
... and then you do rm .ssh/known_hosts and try again :P
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by dscrd 12y ago
So Nokia sold their worthless Windows Phone part and started making android devices a year later? Their strategy is suddenly making sense.
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by dscrd 12y ago
Tangentially, can anyone recommend a good book for learning PL/PGSQL and other ways to procedurally program on psql?
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by dscrd 12y ago
Javascript as a language for handling serious amounts of money? I don't know...
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by dscrd 12y ago
I apologize for going all reddit on you but: Duh.
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by dscrd 12y ago
> Whatever the reason is for Angulars popularity, it isn’t that it’s a great framework. Something similar to this seems to be true for every piece of programming technology that is popular. How did it come to this? Other professions don&
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by dscrd 12y ago
"Those are toy scores and one should not take them seriously." People keep saying that about The Shootout, but I don't think so. They reflect the combination of two qualities: the main implementation of the language, and the

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