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>The only people who think PHP is dying is those who don’t use it.

That is absolutely not true. I didn't care about PHP at all when I didn't use it. Then I got a job where I had to use it (and the management didn't want to hear about changing it), and I started slowly disliking it. Then I got out of that job and again mostly forgot about it and curretly don't really care what happens to it.

Weird defences like yours resurge the dislike, so there seems to be some amount of lingering trauma. And of course there's the worry that the more popular PHP is, the more probable it is that I will have to face it again some day.
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It really is not supposed to be used unless you are wrapping a C library. Or at least that’s the original reasoning, I think. Let’s hope it doesn’t get abused.
I love it every time I get the 'old' control panel. It means I know where the switches are, and more importantly, what they do.

The new UIs change with every minor update. Layout, labels and semantics. It's truly horrible. Please don't encourage Microsoft to mess it up even more.
I'm afraid the term makes many people stop thinking. They hear Karma is socialist and conclude that it's bad. Ideally, you would tell people Karma is socialist only after they have evaluated it.

On the other hand, even the most faithful anti-socialist should recognize that you aren't building a totalitarian dictatorship here. So it may make them think after all.
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If you are interested in art restauration, I can highly recommend the Baumgartner Fine Art Restauration channel on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZe6ZCbF9xgbbbdkiodPKQ

It's extremely relaxing to watch. I guess I chose to wrong profession.

If you understand German, there was also a good 45 min documentary about a restaurator a few weeks ago on SWR:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-hbYKyyWiI

His gilding skills are superior to Baumgartners.
> Anyway, what I'm trying to say

But what you actually said is that IQ is perfectly valid but not magic and that anxiety and depression are serious problems.
It's still nowhere near the same level of experience that Rider or VS offer.
> I've been in water only slightly warmer.

I think your water would have been significantly warmer.

Pond water with a thin veneer of ice on top would still be quite a bit warmer than -3˚C ocean water. People very regularly swim in lake water that has thick ice on top of it (after they cut a hole through).
Including resource usage! As anything on top of InteliJ.
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They are traps that everyone can fall in very easily and are way more common that it seems. But because they are "bad" they are often not talked about or highlighted.
> The second paragraph of the first link specifically makes it clear it is a question of point of view and concedes Norway was poor relative to today. Meanwhile the distribution of wealth was a bigger issue.

Every rich country was once very poor relative to its current status though. This doesn't change the fact that Norway was not poor relative to other European countries at the time.
What CSS library are you using with React?
What CSS libraries are startups currently using to build their web apps using React? As we cant use plain Bootstrap with React, following were the popular choices I found on web:
1. Material-UI
2. React-bootstrap
3. Reactstrap.
Do you prefer using a CSS library or no CSS library at all with React?
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>With 7.3 it seems as though PHP has finally got to a point where it knows who it is and where it's going

I've been reading a similar sentence for each version since 5.6. Is 2020 also gonna be the year of the Linux desktop?
Serious question, what makes 4.7.1/4.7.2 viable, but 4.8 not? Major breaking changes?
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> If this isn’t a boring lunch

The qualification seems unnecessary to me. It's lunch (well, to me, it's breakfast). It's no wonder people are depressed eating it when everybody keeps calling it boring. It's bread with a topping. It's fine. It tastes good. Does every meal need to be akin to a sushi buffet?
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For Americans it could be called a socialist country, take into account that the parties we call right-wing in most European countries propose economic policies that are to the left of America's mainstream left. In fact, probably even Le Pen is to the left of America's mainstream left in terms of worker's policies.
riding bikes in 0g is also quite difficult, or so i hear.
Personally I find Italian food pretty boring and very overrated. Most people seem to disagree with me when I say that though.
Agreed, in part.

The Internet audience as of 1999 was about 250 millions of users, with penetration of <50% even in many advanced nations.

As of nearly eight years ago, it was 2.5 billions, and is probably on the order of 5 billion now.

https://bus206.pressbooks.com/app/uploads/sites/10536/2013/0...

And that's neglecting to address the amount of content and traffic available.

I'm not making a "more is better" argument, rather, I believe that "more is different", often in hard-to-appreciate ways.

The 1999 audience, and contributors, wanted to be on the Internet, for the most part. They didn't have to be there, and more importantly, most use was not directly remunerative, though some may have been self-interested (expression, proselytising, shingle-hanging, tech advocacy, targeted sales, and yes, a nascent advertising niche).

Creators could rarely hope for direct benefits, with rare exceptions ("Million Dollar Homepage", etc.)

Use now is vastly broader, it's all but essential, being widely recognised as a basic human right. Devices are easier to use, but far less generative. Even traditionally creative platforms (Linux, Mac, Windows) increasingly get in the way of, rather than facilitate, creation (the time I spend nursing rather than using systems is ... depressing).

And whilst many of the newcomers are welcomed, a large share really aren't. Their use is not aimed at general benefit, but at private and personal appropriation, often through deception and fraud.

More is different.
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With the breathing during exposure to cold water I find focusing on slow and controlled exhalation is the most important thing. People tend to go the other way and do lots of shallow, gasping in-takes.
dot.net and bing.com are running under aspnet core 3.0
Curious on how much of the 34% actually uses PHP >= 7.

As long as there's legacy, PHP jobs are not going to run out for sure, that's a given. I wouldn't exactly mind carrying a project in PHP >= 7, but I wouldn't wish to get a job in PHP < 7 territory personally.
Yeah, but not everybody shares that preference. Either is good. Take a break with decent lunch. Do it with colleagues if you want. It's fine. Or if you want, stay at work and eat something simple while you keep working. That's fine too if that's what you want to do. But this criticizing people for their preferences is just annoying and unnecessary.
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Pretty much everyone in my office (in central Oslo) eats a hot meal in the canteen every day, I think there are maybe 5 people out of over 100 that have opted out of hot meals.

I'm also curious about you using peanut butter, in my experience, even though it's readily available in stores (well, one brand), it doesn't seem like many Norwegians actually eat it regularly.
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We're using it for a game server that interfaces with a Unity client. Works damn well. As someone who makes games, that's a standard business application for me, but YMMV.
And what if they people who "are given power and abuse that power" are still by far the best for the role?

One can imagine a politician who is a thief for example, stealing public money or who uses the state to harm his personal enemies, but is still a genius of public policy, great for steering the economy, a great leader at war, and so on. In the end, the amount of money they stole e.g. (in the case of the embezzler) is insignificant compared to the good he hid for the country as a leader.

You'd replace them with some "good person" if said good person's weren't as good?

And here's the catch, history accounts are filled with such people.
I don't think it's a perfect measure but it's the best we've got. No other psychological measure has the predictive power of IQ tests. The key to a good experiment is it's predictive capacity. IQ tests are very good predictors of reading comprehension, academic outcomes, and economic outcomes. If a weather forecast 5-20 years into the future were to hit the mark 80-90% of the time we would call that a great model.
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I never understood this nordic lifestyle I saw in Scandinavia

Norway and Sweden are completely different. In Sweden most people either go out to a restaurant for a warm a lunch or eat a warm lunch they brought with from home. An hour lunch break, while not official sanctioned, is hardly uncommon.

And even when I worked in Norway where many people just ate sandwiches for lunch, almost everybody ate lunch in the lunchroom.

Sitting glued to my chair in front of the computer for 8 hours straight

Or you sit glued to your computer 6 hours straight, get done what you where supposed to do and go home at 3 to be with your family or get in some other afternoon activities. A very common mindset in Norway.
This was something I'd meant to do for a long time, and wanting to work on it was one of the reasons I retired from YC. Being overtly ambitious would have provoked haters, but few will see this thread now, so I'll tell you: the goal was to discover the Platonic form of Lisp, which is something I could always sense lurking beneath the surface of the many dialects I've used, but hidden by mistaken design choices. (T was probably the best in this respect.)

I don't know how much my experience translates to other people, because my "career" has been unusually random, but when I retired from YC what I was thinking was that at 49, if there was something I'd been meaning to do, I'd better do it.
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I think the point was that often "an API" means a larger collection of functions, classes, properties, etc. Like the COM API, the DirectX API, the MFC API and so on.
>Yeah, but what's the coal plant equivalent? You can try to avoid living near nuclear plants as well

And then the wind blows in this or that direction, after an accident, and your 1000 mile away "safe" place gets all kinds of radiation....
It's not even a web sites job to worry about my environment. Stick to sending data TO ME rather than pulling it from me.
Respect to Finnish and Russian winter swimmers but I think most are swimming in fresh water that is still a few degrees above freezing (under the ice), not sub-zero ocean water.
I have no idea why you're being downvoted. I'm the same way. I don't take lunch breaks unless I'm completely wiped out mentally. I get to go home earlier, but also I get to keep focusing on what I enjoy doing. Also, the office is empty and quiet, which is pretty damn nice. People here seem to be making the assumption that we're grinding ourselves to the bone by not taking a break - but, no, if I need a break, I can take one. I just don't need to.
Developing a new OS that's on par with Windows is a huge, multibillion dollar task. And it's not even the hard part here, because when you have the new OS, there will be zero software on it - you'd need to somehow convince vendors to port their software to it. Essentially, I believe that the only body capable of doing it would be a big government (US, Chinese, or the EU as a whole)- they can say that will only run this new OS that they've developed in-house, and, by being large enough client, they'd convince some vendors to port crucial stuff (such as MS Office).

Unfortunately, shittiness of current OSes and productivity/quality of life losses caused by it are not even on a radar of our politicians, so they'll never invest any money in fixing the situation.

BTW, Johnatan Blow and Casey Muratori are ranting about it from time to time on Twitter and YouTube and they have some interesting takes on the subject (Casey was suggesting getting rid of OS altogether, and coming back to an Amiga-like architecture).
On the contrary: the loop isn’t fundamentally infinite, it’s just an artefact of the language that you have to write it that way. The walrus lets you put the termination where it belongs.
So, given you "don't care what happens to PHP", I assume you don't give much heed to whether it's winning or dying. That's basically what @deanclatworthy is saying, so there is nothing to fight about. Cheers!
The same reason there aren’t browser competitors - it would take forever to write and test one, and even then, on a new OS, you’d have to write tremendous amounts of user software to even be usable, let alone competitive.
types? interfaces?
Not on something completely subjective like this, no I'm not going to provide sources. It's my personal opinion from my own personal experience. And no, the existence of an alternative point-of-view in a blog post does not invalidate my personal experience.

If you excel in any other trait, people will acknowledge it and praise you for it, especially visual traits. Beauty, height, strength, speed, endurance, etc. Intelligence, by contrast, is rarely acknowledged. It's not as easily discerned. Confidence is an important part of achieving your best potential. Learning to accept compliments with grace is an important skill for life. Giving yourself such compliments is even more important.

Obviously smart people need to understand that their intelligence does not protect them from being wrong or delusional or failure. That's an important part of growing up and maturing for any human though.
I'm not fighting, I just gave a single data point that invalidated (logically, not actually) one part of his argument (the one I quoted) :) And then a bit of commentary.
Rails developer based in the Netherlands. I wish there were 50% as many Ruby/Rails jobs as there were PHP jobs here, mainland Europe is crazy about PHP for some reason.
In my opinion, the inheritability of intelligence and any other mental factors is largely exaggerated. It's impossible to differentiate between genetic and environmental factors in Human populations, mainly because people with the same genetic background tend to have the same environment. And yes, if you compare twins, raised apart, but in the same nation, maybe even city, probably same social class, same health and educational system, then you are left with a genetic influence of, for example 75%.

While academic achievement western societies still isn't as much determined by individual skill as many people would like to believe, it's worse in the countries the immigrants come from, and additional factors like language barriers and discrimination (intentional, structural or even accidental) render the idea of inheritability quite useless.

Another problem is that studies have identified environmental factors which influence intelligence much more than any known individual genetic factors. For example infections with Malaria or other parasites, but also the duration and quality of school attendance.

You will notice that none of the "twins raised apart" studies include such factors, because virtually no children in western societies have these problems.

And that's why the impact of the education system and socioeconomic factors on academic achievement are vastly underestimated, especially because people keep bringing up these inheritability studies.
I recently switched companies from one .Net shop to (kinda, sorta) another.

The previous one had a big product based on a COM-turned-WCF architecture for years. WCF is dead/not a thing on .Net core.

The one I'm currently looking at just recently (last year-ish?) migrated from idk what to .. a big pile of WCF. I don't think that will every migrate either.

(yes, there are ways to replace WCF if you - and these examples don't require that - ignore transaction support, but it's a nightmare to migrate as far as I can tell .. and you end up with a product that looks exactly the same to the customer)

I've dabbled in .Net core since its inception and would love to use it more, but the whole WCF story was usually a deal breaker for usage at work unfortunately.
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Validation through IT images.

Until IT certifies server images with .NET Framework 4.8, it doesn't get green light for new projects.

So is the nature of enterprise computing, I know a couple of customers still using Red-Hat Enterprise 5 on their servers.
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You don't use StackOverflow, ever?
I think this news marks the point from which we may see the move happening.
I know, but many people dislike boilerplate code.
There is always the Fedivers: https://fediverse.party/
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This is another browser stupidity. Dont send anything until the submit button is pressed. It's the browsers job to implement the text edit box and spell check, not every website.
Singular they always gets me confused about how many people we're talking about. As a non-native speaker, I wouldn't call this solution perfectly good.
Yes, if things keep changing around or is hard to find, that's annoying but I see this as a separate problem from a bad pace and inconsistency. Nothing here in particular hinders good and well researched design.
Types, sure. PHP 7 does those better than python, mainly due to the fact that the main implementation actually checks the types. Python seems to rely on 3rd party tools for that for some reason. Dunno if they're gonna change that or if they designed it like that.

Interfaces, hmm. PHP took its whole OO almost directly from Java, which is an odd thing to do given how different the typing disciplines of Java and PHP are. Python's OO system is much more in-tune with the dynamic aspect of the language.
How do they use carbon 14 to date this? Isn’t it used to date dead things? And if the trunk comes and goes, the bark is never really old, is it?
Also, for those of you that already solved most of the challenges - stay tuned. We'll launch more challenges during a big Unix 50th anniversary celebration event taking place next week in Bell Labs HQ in Murray Hill, NJ.
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Um dogfooding doesn't count.
I've been really impressed by the performance improvements made during the last couple of years. I guess my main issues with the language is the non-uniform naming of functions and the ordering of their parameters.

At some point, I'd like to see a new major release that deprecates all of those old problems in order to clean stuff up. Even if it means breaking backwards compatibility a year or two later on.

It turns out, however, that such things aren't easy to handle. Python 2 to 3, anyone?
Yet another reason I don't subscribe to Medium

Medium wanted to charge me for that advertiorial crap by means of a subscription.
I also like our Chinese food (granted, there is a large quality range in my city at least), but most of the sauces are like 30% sugar.
Or, you might get a random HN/Reddit (Slashdot, haha) hug of love, and that's -500 USD for you, and no +1 000 000 at the end of the year, because it was a one time thing.
I am using nginx as a reverse proxy to kestrel in production on one of my projects and it seems to be working great so far
These are the statistics that would be referred to by IP proponents should this discussion ever reach a legislative stage. Don't shoot the messenger. Think about counter arguments.
tl;dr; society is social

IQ is only valuable up to a point, the rest is seduction
...that's one of the reasons why I think 60% of the time we're applying machine learning "at the wrong end of the problem". We should:

(1) pick a set of goals we deem worthy

(2) use machine learning to find patterns of actions that push things towards our goals - that's why I think we should move as much as possible in reinforcement learning, and figure out ways to use RL for data-science too, both supervised learning and time-independent unsupervised learning are really dangerous and biasing tools, and I think they're sort of dead ends on the road to true-AGI

There's no such thing as "seeing the world for how it is". Looking for patterns in data using a tool/machine trained on data (that will be inherently biasedly selected) will just lead you to find the patterns that confirm your f up world view, out of the infinity of patterns that there always are in everything...

We need to figure out how to manipulate the world in order to shape it into the patterns that we'd enjoy more.

There's a sort of "Chinese perspective" in applied machine learning nowadays (which is probably not originating in China, but being associated with "ML empowered surveillance and social scoring" is easier labeled like this) that I think is very wrong and extremely dangerous... we should grow up out of it quickly, because later on properly purging it from our cultures will be a violent endeavor... Heck, I even hope we as species get a Mars base up as a backup if this conflict of world views goes hot because there's a high chance it will be very very hot, like in nuclear hot...
Well, I like to follow the rules of English, so that's how I take it.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/infamous-vs-fa...
New "f-strings support = for self-documenting expressions" but you cannot use f-strings as doc string ;)
yet if you want to start using python for large projects you have to come up with some hacks to make sure certain things are in check.
With python is as easy as php to create spaghetti code and the language itself doesn't even help with that, however php is the only one taking the blame
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That bug has been open for 6 years or more.
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Most important is good bread, which is super common here

That must be a new development. I lived in Norway until 2002 and have eaten my fair share of matpacker and the bread with definitely very mediocre unless you where willing to pay ~$10 at a decent bakery. Otherwise it was Kneip, Loff or frozen baguettes , neither which can really be called "good".

But in general I agree with you. Good bread with lots of butter is amazing.
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if he is willing to start again as a junior on a lower salary when changing fields then yeah
I didn't, and when I tried it out, it wasn't working for me, so I looked it up and apparently others have had the same issue. [0] The Shortcut was set to cmd+` in system preferences, but it didn't do anything. Manually entering cmd+` as the shortcut fixed it.

0: https://superuser.com/questions/186863/command-backtick-isnt...
Could this be caused by people with higher IQ being more honest and knowledgeable about things?

The average person has undiagnosed issues. They may have a mood disorder, but either deny that they have something wrong with them or have never bothered to have it checked out?

Compared to people who care enough to officially test their IQ. I argue that more people in a group like Mensa are more aware of their diagnosis' than the average person.
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In my opinion it was a mistake to reject the labelled break PEP
> it does sound a decision that was more self-indulgent than made in faithful service of your employer

I don’t know about that. A bad culture fit can end up taking a lot of value away from a team. Being self-satisfied enough to join Mensa, and then put it on your CV looks like a big red flag to me.
The HTTP library is super easy to use and is very fast. I would not say that this issue makes the library bad.