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by mojuba 5y ago
In one of my current web-based projects I decided to experiment with magic links sent via email. They are pretty convenient (and secure enough) but turns out there's a problem with mobile email clients: they tend to open links in isola
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by mojuba 5y ago
It might be that the idea is too complex to be viable or useful. The graveyard of technologies created in the past decades stretches to the horizon, so if something doesn't work after 10 years doesn't mean it will work in the futu
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by mojuba 5y ago
There is a real productivity gain when you remove all things that cause a mental tax on reading. After Swift I don't want to look back at the C-like syntax languages any more (just that occasionally I have to).
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by mojuba 5y ago
I do know ARC is also a garbage collector, but is there an agreed name for the other GC's? There is a significant difference and performance implications with ARC vs. the other ones, that's what I meant.
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by mojuba 5y ago
A language that uses archaic syntax with dollar vars, semicolons, is pretty verbose itself may die before it evolves into something sensible. Not that I believe PHP will die any time soon, but just replying to your "slow is good".
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by mojuba 5y ago
(Repeating myself) PHP's garbage collector is ARC.
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by mojuba 5y ago
PHP's garbage collector is ARC, unlike any other dynamic language that I know of. ARC is more performant but can introduce memory leaks via circular references, which is probably not a big problem for short-lived scripts anyway.
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by mojuba 5y ago
Is it just me or PHP's evolution is a bit "too little, too late" for an almost 30-years old language? PHP is not a likable language but it's probably not going away any time soon. Its concept of "one endpoint is one
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by mojuba 5y ago
Okay, here's Jeff Bezos literally saying that [1]. [1] https://edition.cnn.com/videos/business/2021/02/03/jeff-bezo...
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> There were similar debates taking place online around the dawn of e-commerce. I don't remember any debates in the 1990's about this. Some people built stuff, others just closed their physical shops and moved on to something e
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by mojuba 5y ago
Sorry for meta, but in my 30+ years in tech I haven't seen a technology that would spark so much discussion around whether it can be useful or not. People invest in interesting stuff, others build and roll those things out. The publi
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by mojuba 5y ago
The question is, are phone operators even interested in doing this? Marking robocalls as such - sure, but blocking altogether - I don't think so. Something interesting happened I think a few years ago, when a hosting company in the US
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by mojuba 5y ago
I wasn't clear, sorry. I'm not saying people may be investing because they appreciate the math. It's not about the motivation as much as it's about reconciliation, or let's say finding the common denominator in deba
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by mojuba 5y ago
Understanding the underlying math is not required really. You may just believe crypto is pure math and its beautiful as such. Like, personally I don't fully understand it - never bothered to study tbh.
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by mojuba 5y ago
> Corporations also have the means and the connections to lobby the state, which ensures the regulations are more to their liking. I understand but under proper democracies regulations are something the society should benefit from in the
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by mojuba 5y ago
You bring one of the most hypocritical pages on the Internet as an example?
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Show me a corporation that would whole heartedly support regulation of the market they're in.
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by mojuba 5y ago
True, but I'd argue that regulation is not part of the free market capitalist paradigm. Regulations are created and enforced by the democratic institutions that are not part of the market paradigm.
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by mojuba 5y ago
Not always the case. There are non-democratic capitalist societies with varying degrees of performance, from great (Singapore) to awful (the entire post-Soviet space). On the other hand, over-regulated or fully socialist societies seem to b
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by mojuba 5y ago
You could start with e.g. requiring full legal disclosure of what my data is used for. Apple is trying to move in that direction, but we can't be at the mercy of a private corporation no matter how good the intentions are, when it come
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by mojuba 5y ago
That's the most irrelevant counterpoint that can be made here. "Communist" states were also totalitarian, i.e. undemocratic and that was the main reason for their ultimate failure. With democracy they'd be able to self-c
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by mojuba 5y ago
It's not about the free market per se, but rather a system that allows to turn the information asymmetry into money without consequences most of the time.
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by mojuba 5y ago
Software is not charity but it's a responsibility. As probably the most innocent example, when you ship an app that drains a user's battery you betray your users. But then how about an app that sneakily collects data knowing that
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by mojuba 5y ago
I'd like to see examples of well known good apples outside of OSS that care about performance, compatibility, accessibility, security, and privacy.
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by mojuba 5y ago
No. 13 is gold: > We’re never going to get the broader SE culture to care about things like performance, compatibility, accessibility, security, or privacy, at least not without legal regulations that are enforced. And regulations are w
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by mojuba 5y ago
While it's still debatable whether crypto currencies are pure speculation vs. the new "gold" vs. a new currency that will kill the national ones - As a philosophical idea, can we at least agree that the inherent value of Bitc
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At least HTTP/1.x is the default for command line testing and debugging. I'm a bit worried we'll lose testability of servers as we add more and more layers on top of 1.x. Say it works with `curl` for me, what are the guarante
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by mojuba 5y ago
So servers will now have to support HTTP/3, HTTP/2, HTTP/1.1, HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/0.9. Is added complexity worth it though?
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Languages used to be so much more fluid before the invention of printing. Now printing and primary schools have slowed the process down considerably, as well as destroyed a lot of smaller dialects that never made it to printed literature. S
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by mojuba 5y ago
Even as a non-native English speaker I can tell you off the top of my head: "lovely" in the American culture is predominantly used by women (though in the British culture exceptions can be made more often). But I'm sure there

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