stowaway

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   by stowaway 16y ago

   Sure, but if they'd made just a tiny effort to test their code before releasing it they'd have caught that bug instantly. We're not talking about time-consuming tests here - we talking about loading the page in the browser once. If the PHP
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   by stowaway 16y ago

   Maybe I went a little overboard with those words. However, it's not so much the typo; it's the fact that the typo caused passwords to be visible.
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   by stowaway 16y ago

   TL;DR: Amateurish PHP developers at Tumblr fuck up; HN developers who don't know PHP that well make wildly incorrect assumptions about PHP. People, I know it's en vogue to bash PHP (just wait, in a few years it'll be Ruby and Python - remem