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PHP's Oddities 2 months ago

I’d love to see a post like this for JS that actually talks about things people run into. Usually when people make a post like this in js, its about archaic things nobody actually uses.

Who cares what you think of someone else’s qualifications?

It’s just someone quoting someone to help ground their position.

What if it was a journalist writing about a security vulnerability then a programmer quoting them, would that count then?

the thing about abstractions is that nothing implies that they aren’t leaky abstractions, which may be worse than no abstraction for future bug hunters

Nothing in this project looks vibecoded. I compel you to try vibecoding this in a couple weeks if you think it’s possible, and then after that to build a business out of it. If the only thing stopping you is the code, you should give it a try.

There’s no business in working with an existing community to add functionality. And hence, where do you think the full time developers working on the project would get their livelihood?

Yes you could add all these things to git, but no, nobody will give you $17M to do it, nor will you find competent engineers who are willing to work for whatever funding they can find for “improving git”, which in all reality will probably round down to 0 in comparison to several software engineer’s salaries.

Why do rich people raise money when they already have money?

1) because they can

2) it's their money, not company money, and again, why would you risk your own money when someone else wants to risk their money?

The number one tip I can give is put it in a different room. The number two tip I can give is to find something else to sink your time into. Get really into books, tv, whatever, just anything to stretch the time between your next phone pickup. A lot of people will ask what's the point if I get into something else. The point is that learning how to stay away from your phone will teach you how to stay off of it even when you are away from the distractions.

People think that just because they have a way to prove that an image is AI, their worries of misinformation are solved. Better to acknowledge that wherever you look people will be trying to deceive you even if their content won't have as obvious an indicator as SynthID.

It must feel so good to make a blog post that hates on vibecoding and get your mandated recognition for a regurgitated point. Nobody is even arguing that this article said anything novel, it’s just pure hate

What about this article raises this question? If anything, this article makes it pretty clear that memory safe languages are a win. It seems like a serious disadvantage to require a nondeterministic program to evaluate your code's safety.

the html review 05 4 months ago

my guess:

95% prefer email (anyone nontechnical)

5% prefer reader (a select group of technical people)