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by rafark 1y ago
But Firefox is a for profit company worth millions? Why would you just donate it like that to a corporation? For the longest time I thought Mozilla was a non profit org but it doesn’t seem to be the case and they have millions in the bank?
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by rafark 1y ago
> This is the future; partially fuelled by malware, partially fuelled by the desire for platform control, and partially fuelled by government regulation. I would say it’s really 50% platform control, 50% government regulation.
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by rafark 1y ago
It’s the same thing with php. I would say it’s probably because they are languages from the 90s, but then you have python and JavaScript which are from the same era too and people never question their relevance or “modernity”. All of these
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by rafark 1y ago
It’s not naive. The value these ai chatbots provide to me is extremely high. I’ve been writing code for many years but one of the areas I wanted to improve was debugging, I’ve always printed variables but last month I decided to start using
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by rafark 1y ago
Agreed. Not only do I think it’s worth it, i actually like that I can contribute. I’m getting so much good value for free I think it’s fair. It’s a win-win situation. The AIs get better and I get better answers.
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by rafark 1y ago
Not as much as current llms. But the point is that AIs are supposed to be better than us, kind of how people built calculators to be more reliable than the average person and faster than anyone.
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by rafark 1y ago
The great thing about this pipe operator is that it accepts any callable expression. I’m writing a library to make these array and string functions more expressive. For example, in php 8.5 you’ll be able to do: [1,1,2,3,2] |> unique And
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by rafark 1y ago
> |> array_column(..., 'tags') This syntax is invalid. But it will be possible next year with the proposed partial function application rfc array_column(?, 'tags') https://wiki.php.net/rfc/part
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by rafark 1y ago
> Why do people feel compelled to even consider it to be a battle? Because words have specific meanings. There’s a specific expectation when using them. It’s like if someone said “I can’t install this app on my iPhone” but then they have
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by rafark 2y ago
> I'd love to read what you think and which ways I can improve it (event the marketing/wording). More on this, I I'd like to get feedback on whether it's intuitive or not (I went with a builder which is what I persona
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Show HN: My Free WooCommerce Plugin for Custom Coupon URLs / Links(wordpress.org)
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by rafark 2y ago
But why though? Claude is REALLY good at programming. I love it
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by rafark 2y ago
100% yeah
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by rafark 2y ago
> all who live within its borders are responsible for these actions. That’s an insane take. The vast majority of their citizens are just regular people like you or me.
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by rafark 2y ago
Very interesting. I’ve been writing code for a while but if I’m honest I have no idea how code signing works. Any good resource on how it works especially in php?
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by rafark 2y ago
Yes it’s really good (it’s not awkward at all) and it’s optional if you don’t want to use it. It’s truly the best of both worlds.
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by rafark 2y ago
Yeah several spell checkers are context aware like grammarly (I haven’t used it in a long time though).
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by rafark 2y ago
Why php though? Php is as old as java and very popular and constantly updated.
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by rafark 2y ago
> the WordPress logo is prominently displayed next to the "WP Engine" title Pretty sure that Wordpress logo is just the stock logo that came with every Wordpress installation. The name wp engine was the website name of that Wor
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by rafark 2y ago
They cannot. Wordpress is a fork of cafelog which was gpl iirc.
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by rafark 2y ago
>If feel bad for the people who took off work, went to WordCamp US and they keynote they got was a complete turd. I feel like this is a half empty half full kind of situation. Some people might think like you but others might view it as
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by rafark 2y ago
Have you ever heard of WooCommerce? It’s the market leader. It powers more stores than Shopify.
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by rafark 2y ago
Except it’s literally the opposite. Chrome gets a lot of hate for being associated with google, but it’s always innovating and implementing the latest standards. Internet explorer, at least in it’s last years was the complete opposite.
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by rafark 2y ago
What about git? Wasn’t git developed exactly as an alternative to a commercial product? Git is probably the most successful open source alternative software, so much that it completely obliterated the competition.
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by rafark 2y ago
>For almost 10 years, the core react developers would repeat incessantly: React is a library, not a framework. I always disliked the it’s a library not a framework debate. Isn’t any library a framework, technically?
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by rafark 2y ago
> The JSX idea is gold: introduce XML-like template syntax into the language to avoid need for foreign template language. Make XML templates valid at startup and even with proper types for TypeScript. This is very important advancement c
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by rafark 2y ago
Jotai is truly fantastic to prevent unnecessary rerenders. I’ve been using it in my new project and it’s very nice.
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by rafark 2y ago
For my new project I wanted to try something new but I ended up going with React again. At the end it was the right decision for me because of the libraries I ended up using. The community/ecosystem is just unparalleled. Whatever libra
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by rafark 2y ago
> I have heard dreaded comments from *JS ecosystem users that the packages go to unmaintained state and there is just too much noise in the ecosystem. Very few packages thrive and live for longer periods... and eventually results in a lo
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by rafark 2y ago
The beauty of git (everyone has a full copy of the repo). Although this being an installable browser targeted more towards end users I wouldn’t trust a repo from anyone other than the official maintainers.

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