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by muglug 7y ago
> FF was best when it was called Phoenix, from there it was downhill WTF? Firefox 3 and above altered the browser landscape, providing a viable alternative for people using IE6. > instead of focusing on their core product, Mozilla dec
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by muglug 7y ago
I have seen a lot of this graffiti around Brooklyn. It’s seriously strange.
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by muglug 7y ago
Journals can reject a paper on editorial grounds – for example, Nature doesn't publish every valid paper submitted to it.
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Show HN: Psalm, a static analysis tool for PHP(psalm.dev)
2 points by muglug 7y ago|0 comments
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by muglug 7y ago
It's amazing the paper got published in the first place – the idea that comparing open source codebases could tell you all that much about the underlying language is sort of bizarre when comparing such different projects to begin with.
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by muglug 7y ago
If the authors are reading, I think you mistakenly marked this as a paywalled article. I can't believe this was done deliberately from someone on the Netflix side.
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by muglug 7y ago
I think an SPA can be much more user-friendly than a traditional series of server-rendered pages. Email is a great example of this - GMail, at launch, had much better UX than existing server-rendered applications like Hotmail. You can fin
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by muglug 7y ago
Given that putting your name to public criticism is a career-ending move in China, I think it's great that western media gives dissidents a voice.
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by muglug 7y ago
> Hindsight is 20/20. But their mindset, about not wanting to start an unwarranted panic, about wanting to investigate things fully, is understandable. When there's clear evidence of the beginnings of an epidemic, a public pani
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by muglug 7y ago
Developing with Docker is pretty great for my colleagues who use Linux laptops. Sadly performance on Macs is woeful (due to architectural differences between the two systems) but even so it's still a very useful tool.
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by muglug 7y ago
> Server-side, we’ve been migrating from PHP to Hack since 2016 A 3+ year migration of the bulk of your codebase is sort of intense. Though the Hack team at Facebook has made some great tools to ease migration, their fairly aggressive su
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by muglug 7y ago
Video search was launched then, but you couldn’t submit your own videos.
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by muglug 7y ago
No, that was in April 2005: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2669287/google-launches-vi...
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by muglug 7y ago
> Vimeo's model is quality content from indie producers, actually they are similar to SoundCloud in some ways. Not coincedentally, SoundCloud is run by a former Vimeo CEO.
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by muglug 7y ago
> I think YouTube's success is mainly that they were first Actually, Vimeo's first videos[0] were uploaded a month before YouTube's[1]. [0] https://vimeo.com/15 [1] https://www.youtube.com/
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by muglug 7y ago
> A senior engineer should be advocating for that load test at e.g. 150% of the real load. When the total budget is $60K, they probably don't have the time. Remember that when Disney (a company with near-infinite resources) launch
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by muglug 7y ago
“Make a simple CRUD app” is something a senior engineer should be able to do. “Make a simple CRUD app that has no bugs or scaling issues on launch day” is something that very few senior engineers can do, because most people in our professio
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by muglug 7y ago
Here's a really excellent post-mortem from someone who knows the field: https://twitter.com/rabble/status/1224820389387223041 One alarming fact among many: the company was paid only $60K to develop an app tha
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by muglug 7y ago
If you're sending GET/POST/PUT requests rather than just receiving them, curl_* methods are pretty easy and well-defined. But there are also numerous wrappers & frameworks that can make the process simpler.
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by muglug 7y ago
The article is incorrect - the vote for that was defeated: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/engine_warnings#vote Undefined variables will now be warnings (and one might expect PHP 9 to reclassify them as exceptions).
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by muglug 7y ago
Here's "git shortlog -sne", with Stripe employees (current and former) and email addresses removed. I've annotated with current company, if easily-discoverable: https://gist.github.com/muglug/a70b731
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by muglug 7y ago
As an aside, it's amazing how much work Stripe has put into Sorbet. More than half of the ~100 contributers work at Stripe: https://github.com/sorbet/sorbet/graphs/contributors
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by muglug 7y ago
You can "fight hard for your beliefs" and still shoot yourself in the foot. It’s hard to argue with the idea that there would have been better ways for this guy to get his point across.
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by muglug 7y ago
But if you don’t have those resources, you also probably don’t have much to lose by having that debate in public.
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by muglug 7y ago
Whatever your beliefs, it's very stupid to try to have a debate in public on a politcally heated topic with someone you don't know, without some sort of moderator or an agreed-upon set of rules.
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Teenager having seizure saved by online gamer – 5k miles away in Texas(bbc.com)
2 points by muglug 7y ago|0 comments
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Human connection is a core need. Facebook provides it (or something a lot like it).
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Facebook is just transitioning to becoming the digital equivalent of an oil company. They make a product that billions consume, but that many people think is doing damage to the environment (even though many of those critics still consume t
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by muglug 7y ago
Remember that for a paper like the WSJ or New York Times, opinions/editorials consume a tiny fraction of the budget: an editorial on Theranos might cost the newspaper $500, but the series of articles that eventually led to the downfall
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by muglug 7y ago
It's pretty simple: paying for journalism means the difference between having journalism and not having journalism.

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