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by nubs 12y ago
I'd like to recommend the WWW Trilogy by Robert J. Sawyer. It explores the thoughts behind the instilment of conciousness and awareness. A highly thought provoking read that has a lot of neat parallels to this article. https:/&
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by nubs 12y ago
Have you seen guzzle's implementation of this? It's pretty useful and something I'd love to see split out of guzzle and made its own library. https://github.com/guzzle/guzzle/blob/master/s
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by nubs 12y ago
Isn't that analogous to how a CPU only applies one instruction at a time? Replace the user clicking a button with an automated process and it's easy to see that the CSS+HTML is what is doing the actual processing. Alternatively, p
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by nubs 12y ago
http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/10/24/day-16-gzip-plus-poetry-equal...
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by nubs 12y ago
Slightly off topic, but I wanted to clear this up: > The guy uses PHP and instead of built-in HTTPRequest he uses curl to make a request HTTPRequest is not built-in to PHP. It is a PECL extension that is usually installed separately fro
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by nubs 12y ago
Or an even more tl;dr version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s664NsLeFM
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by nubs 12y ago
The term "sanitizing" is not used to reference this, as commented on, what you are describing is "validating" the user input. That should, of course, happen. Many validations will result in only accepting input that ha
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by nubs 12y ago
I've always seen "sanitization" as more of an output-encoding problem. People love to consider sanitizing the inputs, but how you do so doesn't depend on the inputs but on the specific usage of it - more-or-less the out
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by nubs 13y ago
So how does this compare to something like apigee?
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by nubs 13y ago
> Its numbers representation is double-precision floating-point, meaning it's incredibly imprecise and limited. Except that JSON actually just specifies the number type as an arbitrary precision decimal number. Many implementations
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by nubs 13y ago
There are people trying to take care of some of that already. https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/301 was at some point hoping to get into 5.6 but I don't know what happened to it since then.
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by nubs 13y ago
Sounds straight out of Charles Stross and Cory Doctorow's Rapture of the Nerds - scary! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rapture_of_the_Nerds
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by nubs 13y ago
I haven't come across this before. I will have to play with it and see how it works. It definitely appears to be in alpha status, but then again, so are most javascript frameworks, it seems :)
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by nubs 13y ago
I am not an afficianado by any means, but it does help in some ways. Many libraries exist that can run on both sides of the connection. Unfortunately, I haven't found much that allow you to modify the DOM/html using the same code on clien
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by nubs 13y ago
I love the benefits on single-page web apps, but the SEO issues associated with them and the current methods to get around it (using selenium to do a render of the html on the server?!?) keeps me from using them on things. It seems to me th