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by muglug 6y ago
This won’t work. It’s fantastically easy for a low-quality site to summarise paywalled news articles (and it happens already). Unfortunately newspapers made a massive mistake giving their news away for free in the early 00s. That set a prec
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by muglug 6y ago
I’m the exception to the rule — I wrote my own blogging software to power this site https://psalm.dev/articles but haven’t written about it. Because it’s very boring! Basically just a souped-up markdown renderer that uses G
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Scented candles: An unexpected victim of the Covid-19 pandemic(twitter.com)
3 points by muglug 6y ago|0 comments
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by muglug 6y ago
> WordPress has always been huge on backward compatibility. Yes, and I think that's ultimately the root of its challenges. A fear of breaking things means WP shies away from large-scale changes that would help it become a modern-loo
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by muglug 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation – I was wondering why it jumped from the top spot. This particular post might want to get a reprieve – not because the discussion is interesting, but because the news itself – PHP 8.0.0 being released – is reasona
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by muglug 6y ago
Pattern matching has been proposed in a separate RFC: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pattern-matching
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by muglug 6y ago
> There's a long report on Wordpress and PHP 8 and it's not pretty This is an awkward side-effect of WordPress core team largely neglecting PHP code quality issues for the last decade or so. With good reason – improving such a
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by muglug 6y ago
See also the splash page: https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php
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by muglug 6y ago
I’m white, and I read those same articles (I read pretty much everything in the 1619 project and the recent story on that poor girl’s death). I did not see any race-baiting in either. I did not see the introduction of “further division betw
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by muglug 6y ago
I don’t believe neurodiverse people make racist jokes as a matter of course. At least, that hasn’t been my experience. I think journalists are also able to tell the difference between “some dude made a poor-taste joke once” and “dudes were
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by muglug 6y ago
I’m not an expert debater, but if you’re going to accuse an organisation of being race-baiting, it’s always good to at least provide an example or two. Since the commenter didn’t, I sort of zeroed in on that.
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by muglug 6y ago
I’m sorry that has happened to you. Journalists are fallible, like all of us. But in the aggregate I believe the Times is a force for good in the world, and helps illuminate a good many things that people in power would rather be kept murky
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by muglug 6y ago
I think context is quite important. Andrew Sullivan is notorious for believing in some version of The Bell Curve theory — that differences in academic achievement can be at least partly explained by measurable differences in average intelli
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by muglug 6y ago
What untrue statements on the topic of race has NYTimes’ news section published recently?
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by muglug 6y ago
> society is systematically racist, and as a white person you benefit from this. So all whites are profiting from racism already American society, certainly. Some white Europeans are a bit miffed at being lumped in with America’s proble
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by muglug 6y ago
> If you're an engineer or web developer I really suggest that you brush up on these things I’m doing ok, thanks, and a little humility would go a long way :) I work at a company where we run PHP as both a shared-memory server and a
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by muglug 6y ago
PHP isn't faster for arbitrary mathematical workloads (though the JIT in PHP 8 will help with those). Instead PHP is faster for the things websites normally do, like string manipulation.
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by muglug 6y ago
> I think it's more that the massive engineering effort that's gone into improving JS has leapfrogged it over languages like Python, Ruby & PHP in terms of performance and tooling This is not true – PHP is still much faster
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by muglug 6y ago
Quite apart from the very good content, this guide is also incredibly beautiful. It’s wonderful to see a programming guide that has thought hard about typography (and Freight works great here).
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by muglug 6y ago
This was a direct result of Whole Foods banning pro-Black Lives Matter pins and buttons. Many of those who are complaining about freedom of speech now were pretty quiet when the policy first rolled out.
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by muglug 6y ago
> I’ll write in a few days about what we chose instead My bet is Python - it has some types but more importantly a massive ecosystem, and I think Dark’s target market probably has a little Python knowledge (which would come in handy if
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by muglug 6y ago
Yup, for web stuff you’re right. Python has a larger overall user base, but much of that usage is in non-web contexts, whereas PHP is pretty single-mindedly focussed on websites.
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by muglug 6y ago
Did you, uh, read the article?
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by muglug 6y ago
It's the reverse! They're saying the kid is doing great!
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by muglug 6y ago
Yes, but it’s impossible to know how much of that is due to a change in policing. There’s a much less significant drop in the number of alcohol-involved car accident injuries.
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by muglug 6y ago
Important caveat: the number of alcohol-involved deaths & injuries hasn’t really changed, so it could just be a change in the way those crimes are policed.
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by muglug 6y ago
The underlying tools changes, but peoples' brains don't. People aren't great at keeping many things in their head at once. A stack that massively expands the number of different technologies a full-stack web developer (workin
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Why Not PHP?(mattbrown.dev)
3 points by muglug 6y ago|0 comments
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by muglug 6y ago
You never need to stop learning. I can say with some confidence that the author of this article had not used TensorFlow.js 12 months ago.
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by muglug 6y ago
Very important caveat: "First, even with the inclusion of a rich set of covariates and sensitivity analyses, the observational study design precludes causal interpretations."

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