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That's a bad code problem, not a PHP problem. Why does this meme continue to exist? This is a PHP bug: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/010511-php-floating-po... Everything el…

And ding your credit history? No thanks. I would definitely charge back every unauthorized charge they make, and charge it back again if they fight it and win (yes, you can do this…

Is it unreasonable? I'd recommend Hover too, and also would have used my affiliate link. If I didn't have one I'd still happily recommend them, but if it doesn't cost you anything …

Gearman is pretty solid once you have it working, but it can be a huge pain to get to that point. We spent probably two years (on-and-off, of course) tweaking code to get our frame…

People questioned and attacked his intelligence because of his actions, not because of his race and/or gender. I'd suggest that people who want to attack someone for whatever reaso…

I imagine most developers can tell the difference between 'pursuing' and 'stalking'.

Being confrontational also brings the issue to light and may take us one step closer to solving the problem. Simply ignoring the matter (as uncomfortable as it would be to deal wit…

Are you writing this for yourself or to share? If the latter, optimize readability for people who don't understand regexes. As for commenting the end of loops - that too just impro…

$3000 is quite low in my experience (depends on your processing volume; I've seen high tens to mid hundreds of thousands of dollars) - although reserves typically aren't applied as…

I skimmed the PDF and didn't see what you're referring to; however, I did see it explicitly point out the in effectiveness of "security" questions.

It's a trade off between that and allowing some random stranger to transfer your money if you get up and forget to lock your computer. Our first alpha didn't have the auto-logout a…

Why have speed limits at all then? I've heard anecdotes of professional drivers getting out of massive speeding tickets because they know how to handle a vehicle at that speed (and…

Uh, no - this is more of a "don't execute code in a textbox" thing.

Likewise. I got a similar message several months back, but that wasn't part of a larger leak; apparently some website I'd used a while ago had been compromised and I was using my t…

My understanding is that ntpd corrects clock drift by replaying milliseconds consecutively, not by actually jumping back. However I can't remember where I read that and could be to…

@ is extremely slow. @$arr['key'] is the same as $er = error_reporting(0); $arr['$key']; error_reporting($er); unset($er); Probably more importantly is that the internal errors are…

No more or less than Cake, Zend, CodeIgniter, ... Heck, the second Google hit for "php mvc framework" for me was a 2009 guide to writing your own (talk about not getting the point …

What lack of separation? Don't take this the wrong way, but have you ever actually tried to use PHP in a non-web context? Running "./foo.php" is just as easy as "./foo.py", "./foo.…

I'd say it started closer to making C more accessible for web programming (no fussing with pointers, memory allocation, bounds checks, etc), which incidentally makes it really easy…

I'd be more concerned about the PPC ads leading to a 500 error.

I imagine he means the ability to deploy code to prod at will, not full access to their database.

Indeed. I think the best correlation may be that if someone is already inclined to commit mass violence, they may be able to improve their technique for practicing murder with a vi…

Sounds like the precise idea behind the Do Not Track header. No idea if MixPanel respects it; I'll let one of them answer.

magic_quotes has been deprecated for three and a half years, and widely understood to be a bad idea for around a decade. If you don't check your configs when moving to a new host, …

That's a developer incompetence problem, not a PHP problem. If python or ruby was as trivially easy to get running (read: preinstalled everywhere), then they would be the lowest ba…