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That's true. There are a ton of features in modern PHP which address a lot of the common criticisms brought against it. Doing a proper comparison with other languages (framework to…

>The language seems to encourage poor practices like building query strings directly from remote input without the use of a true query builder. I won't entirely disagree with you o…

No, the buying drugs part is what's 'wrong,' if you consider breaking the law to be a bad thing. But you're right to point out that, in sheer usage, Bitcoin really has nothing on t…

So HN has gone from seeing Google's name on a PRISM slide, to assuming it's entirely an NSA outfit? Apple was on one of those slides. I suppose they're an NSA front organization as…

>What's wrong with people using BTC to buy drugs? Other than it being illegal? Nothing.

Do regulations really exist to prevent crime, or to threaten punishment when it occurs? Arguably, neither a free market or a regulated market can prevent any criminal activity.

I can guarantee there are at least a dozen potential startups in this idea alone. Imagine some version of Linkedin or OKCupid, or even some general purpose scraper that correlates …

>while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about. Unless you're a woman who's ever worn a skirt in public, gone to a gym, or used the changing room in …

Well, yes. But typically, the sort of people who blithely compare the US to a police state do so by invoking the Nazis. I wasn't going to credit such arguments with that much subtl…

Right. Because no intelligent, technically competent person has ever had a reasonable criticism to make about Glass, or the track record of the company making it, in regards to pri…

To be fair, unless you're over 60, you probably don't know how it looks, you only know what you've been told, or what you've led yourself to believe.

If you want to, yes. If you don't, I feel sorry for whoever has to maintain your code.

So can variable and function names, but comments are easier to update.

>What if Ensure had a cool name and didn't carry connotations of age and disease? "Soylent" carries connotations of being made of the ground up corpses of the poor, so... > What if…

Now please demonstrate how Soylent is as great a leap forward from existing nutritional shakes as you infer Google was from Altavista. Ridiculing an argument is not the same as cou…

Are Christians even polytheists? They would emphatically say no, but the Trinity suggests otherwise. Three distinct entities, with distinct personalities, goals and natures: Father…