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by sedev 14y ago
You recommend Stripe in a throwaway line in the post - it sounds like your experience with them has been really positive! I'm working on a project where I may end up taking people's money for services on a subscription basis. I've heard tha
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by sedev 14y ago
When citizens have transparent access to what their government is really up to, those inside the government may be held accountable, which is not something they will take kindly to. I agree with this and want to expand on it a little. Thi
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by sedev 15y ago
I was just thinking something similar. Did we all learn nothing from the recent spate of PHP critiques? Wordpress has several delightful qualities, but "runs easily and smoothly with minimal maintenance required" is not among them unless y
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by sedev 15y ago
If you read that part, it certainly didn't inform what you wrote. You tapped out the same tired boilerplate argument as ever without actually saying why he was wrong to dismiss those arguments up front, or without even acknowledging that he
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by sedev 15y ago
This is also part of the problem. Go read Crockford's "Javascript: The Good Parts". Then notice that this article demonstrates why there is not, and probably never will be, "PHP: The Good Parts."
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by sedev 15y ago
Every time someone does that, the argument gets derailed into talking about the other language and into a not-actually-related argument about its problems and the relative merits of the two languages and so on. You've seen it happen a zilli
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by sedev 15y ago
From the article: >Don’t comment with these things >>I’ve been in PHP arguments a lot. I hear a lot of very generic counter-arguments that are really only designed to halt the conversation immediately. Don’t pull these on me, pl
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by sedev 15y ago
" It also does not get in your way if you are a competent developer... " Actually about half of the article was about how it does exactly that by being inconsistent, having action-at-a-distance effects, and not having real hashes/arrays/tup
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by sedev 15y ago
Let me put it this way: Lisp hackers think that one of the major problems with Emacs Lisp is that it basically uses one big namespace for everything, forcing awkward naming conventions and contortions to avoid collisions. That is possibly t
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by sedev 15y ago
For the record, the back of "Javascript: The Good Parts" actually has that. It has "The Bad Parts" and "The Awful Parts," in which Crockford goes into more detail with each error than Eevee does, and I believe it's still shorter than Eeve
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by sedev 15y ago
" (Pro-PHP flamers: I started using PHP back in 1999. Your arguments are not new.) " See, that's part of the problem. PHP has been terrible for close to two decades. It used to be even worse than what Eevee describes.
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by sedev 15y ago
Since my day job is PHP-centric and I was already aware that PHP is awful, this is theoretically helpful to me, but oh lord, it makes my liver hurt. If I could get away with it, I'd never again trust my credit card number to a system based
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by sedev 15y ago
I'm willing to go to considerable lengths to eliminate character delay - when the things I type don't show up on the screen instantly, it becomes harder to think in a painful way. That's an idiosyncratic reason, but it's there.
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by sedev 15y ago
The author's skepticism is pretty reasonable, but I feel that he misses an important part of the story. Here's the closest he gets to it: " Is it plausible that this practice is widespread, and getting moreso? Sure, it’s plausible. Our priv
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by sedev 15y ago
I probably wouldn't have copped to it quite as fast if you hadn't named one of the characters Bertie Wooster, which was a lovely bit of signaling. Good job there.
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by sedev 15y ago
This reminds me of the "PHP Is Not An Acceptable COBOL" article from not too long ago. If the entire PHP core language team just dropped the project tomorrow, I wouldn't be at all sad to see the language wither and die. The lack of PHP woul
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by sedev 15y ago
I'm sad that this is short on the "which users you need" part - it's got what feels like good advice, but I'd love to see a deep-dive on this topic. I also found the "here's how you actually leave beta" parts interesting, but not particular
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by sedev 15y ago
Or to give the US example, sales tax (and 'vice' taxes like cigarettes and liquor) - because of the different spending habits of different groups, they're effectively regressive taxes.
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by sedev 15y ago
I probably shouldn't be disappointed, by now, that the TSA continue to live up to the reputation that they have around here. The agency is pretty much a pure creature of cognitive bias at this point - of sunk cost fallacies, of the desperat
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by sedev 15y ago
I briefly had the pleasure of working on a similar thing: it sticks out in my memory because the stack that ran the web site was entirely obsolete. OS: Mac OS 9; DB: Filemaker Pro; templates: Lasso; webserver 4D WebSTAR. This was in 2011.
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by sedev 15y ago
This seems like a direct callback to PG's "After Credentials" essay ( http://paulgraham.com/credentials.html ), in a good way. What I get from this post is that we might be in the middle of a credentials shift, from the credentials being
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by sedev 15y ago
I think that your clarification and amplification is a very good one overall, but I have a disagreement. "The fact is that U.S. law enforcement is bound by law (and the Constitution in particular) regardless of whether one is sympathetic to
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by sedev 15y ago
""If you require probable cause for every technique, then you are making it very, very hard for law enforcement," an FBI lawyer told NPR. Of course, that's kind of the point." I have to echo Ars there: that's the damn point. I'd like that l
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by sedev 15y ago
NoScript is the new antivirus, really.
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by sedev 15y ago
I think that the article's still interesting, but I agree that there's a lot of room for the author to move the goalposts, which makes the article read as fluff. I'd be far more interested in it if Mr. Rao had said "and now that I've said t
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by sedev 15y ago
History repeats itself: the tactic being advocated here worked pretty well for the Industrial Workers of the World in the early 20th century. Their tactic was to provoke authorities into arresting an IWW member (it helped that, then as now,
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by sedev 15y ago
"To date, most successful attacks against Chrome exploit Adobe Flash, which is protected by a significantly more porous sandbox." I notice that pretty much every time I read articles about Pwn2Own and similar. It's high time that Flash was
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by sedev 15y ago
That right there: bingo - that's why I think that Yelp is coming out on top of this. They're delivering value to the website visitors/app users. Not that either company is a paragon of virtue, but compare Yelp to Apple and yourself to an
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by sedev 15y ago
Sure, disturbing if true. But restauranteurs keep saying that, and keep failing to prove it - critically, they fail to prove it under oath. [1] [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yelp,_Inc.#Criticism_of_reviews is a good place to start dig
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by sedev 15y ago
They're wrong not only for the reasons that I listed at the end of the post (the factors that make Yelp and Yelpalike business work, are not going their way) but also because they keep asking for the impossible. Yelp can't give venue owners

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