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by muglug 7y ago
There has never been such a thing as "bias-free" journalism. We all have biases, and so do journalists and their editors. If you're willing to pay for journalism, find a newspaper – any newspaper – and buy a subscription. I a
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by muglug 7y ago
The solution is to pay for journalism.
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by muglug 7y ago
If more people paid for journalism, sites like The Guardian’s wouldn’t have to have those banners. To turn it around: what journalism have you paid for recently?
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by muglug 7y ago
> it tries super hard to make you do things properly I don't have much experience with Laravel, but my sense is that Laravel tries to make hard stuff (CRUD operations, MVC) easy, but it doesn't try so hard to make you do things
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by muglug 7y ago
It’s fairly simple, with a syntax close to JavaScript that’s easy to pick up.
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PHP or Type Safety: Pick Any Two(psalm.dev)
2 points by muglug 7y ago|0 comments
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by muglug 7y ago
What errors do you get in the console?
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by muglug 7y ago
I work at Vimeo. We don't have any foreign key constraints in our database either.
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by muglug 7y ago
The obvious counter-example to this is Slack, a "pure-tech" company whose value has halved since IPO, and there's a similar story with Snapchat (though its value has recovered somewhat in the past year).
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by muglug 7y ago
Needs a (2011) tag
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by muglug 7y ago
Great to see a Twitter exec who actually uses the platform!
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by muglug 7y ago
You're right, my wording was inexact - we must always escape strings that can be controlled in some fashion by the user. I'm working on comprehensive taint analysis for PHP[0], and I'm spending a bunch of time thinking about
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by muglug 7y ago
It’s really easy to write PHP, which means that people who don’t know about escaping input write PHP. While there are some web-focussed languages (vs frameworks) that deliberately make it hard for you to write that sort of code, barely an
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by muglug 7y ago
I wonder who the market for Gatsby is. I considered signing up for them for a somewhat simple markdown-powered blog, but ultimately ended up writing my own solution because I couldn’t justify the cost. The documentation for the self-hosted
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by muglug 7y ago
Here's one of the studies quoted, centring on adolescents' propensity towards getting addicted to online games: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6234325/?mod=ar... . These studies don’t c
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by muglug 7y ago
Worth reading to the end for a beautiful section on humility.
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A flaw in iOS 13 can expose your contact details(cnn.com)
2 points by muglug 7y ago|0 comments
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by muglug 7y ago
> Small-scale FOSS projects are the perfect platform for a lone developer Perfect platform in what sense? A perfect platform for burnout when the project becomes too popular?
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by muglug 7y ago
The overarching problem with expecting companies to pay for open-source is that they don’t have to. It’s often as vital to them as the publicly-provided infrastructure used by their employees to get to work, but because they never see the c
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by muglug 7y ago
My first code was written in Flash 4 (I think?), so I understand the value of a easy-to-use walled garden, and I understand how companies can make money from those walled gardens. > A really great new idea should empower millions of peop
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by muglug 7y ago
Looks like fullscreen from iframe embeds has been disabled by Medium.
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by muglug 7y ago
So no GitHub integration?
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by muglug 7y ago
This project represents a stark tradeoff: lose some complexity, and lose almost all control. It feels like forcing users to learn a new language is a step too far here - I can't imagine a ton of people are so eager to build slackbots t
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by muglug 7y ago
Ignore this garbage list. If you select any single crosstab (under "create custom ranking"), you can see the data is mostly bogus. Looking at "Google (trends)", PHP is at #48, below Perl (#37), Delphi (#40) and Fortran (
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by muglug 7y ago
> I'll finish this by saying that ReasonML will make you a better JavaScript developer. As will probably learning any other language that challenges the way you think. I wholeheartedly agree! But a lot of people don't want to b
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by muglug 7y ago
I suppose if you're working on a small pet project that nobody else is going to see. If you're working on something with a bunch of other people you're likely to care more about what the mythical average dev thinks.
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by muglug 7y ago
I get the sense that ReasonML exists because some smart people see "JavaScript developer" as a pejorative. While its abstractions make plenty of sense, its distance from JavaScript makes it incredibly unappealing to the average de
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by muglug 7y ago
The big headline here is that (if this RFC passes) echo $undefined_var; will cause an exception where before it caused an easily-ignored notice. If you don't use any static analysis tools, PHP allows you to write some objecti
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PHP RFC: Reclassifying Engine Warnings(wiki.php.net)
1 points by muglug 7y ago|1 comments
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by muglug 7y ago
This is admittedly hazy, but I’m reasonably sure the Pi was originally named with Py-thon in mind. Source: I think Eben told me himself a while back.

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