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The expected return of working for Big 4 in your 20’s is a coke habit

Except PHP isn’t dead - in fact it’s probably going through a renaissance. The language and tooling have improved a lot over the last few years - to the point where starting a new …

> This type of thing happens all the time. In the UK you can work as an independent contractor for years then one day HMRC will randomly decide to make a case that you're were actu…

You don't send anything to the merchant. The information goes directly to the PSP and the PSP sends a token to the merchant. This usually works by the PSP embedding iframes for the…

No, because React is dynamically generating the HTML on the fly. If you pre-compile the HTML using something like Jekyll, so that the webserver is just serving HTML files without a…

> Everyone's at a different step in their journey. Text book example of being condescending.

> I used to work way back in the day on PHP too, This is your issue - PHP Modern PHP (with a framework like Laravel or Symfony) is probably one of the most productive ways to build…

PayPal offers a micropayments option (5% + $0.05) - which reduces overall cost for businesses where the fixed fee eats a major part of their revenue.

> ads for cigarettes When did this happen? When I was in Munich a few years back there were poster ads for cigarettes everywhere. I remember them being not very subtle about their …

This won’t affect that case, as it uses stdClass (which is allowed to use dynamic properties). This is only for cases where you have a specific class like User, and you don’t want …

That would be nice - but I doubt it will be coming any time soon. After 6 months Maplibre doesn't appear to have changed that much from the original MapboxGL version - which makes …

Yes, but if their own ad converts the user to a paying customer, they don't pay 30% of their revenue to Apple.

This whole thing is nonsense - pubs aren’t closed. And most people aren’t anywhere near a race track on St. Patricks’s Day. Unless they’re in Cheltenham, which is in a different co…

This “fact” isn’t a fact. Pubs aren’t anywhere near closed in Ireland on St. Patrick’s day. It’s probably the busiest day of the year for them.

Try any Flutter-based website and see for yourself! Hint: It’s J A N K Y

Bluetooth permissions are grouped in under the Location permissions on both iOS & Android. This is because Bluetooth _could_ be used to determine a user's location by using beacons…

Potentially. But there’s also an inheritance loophole that allows them to avoid that: https://www.thebalance.com/how-the-stepped-up-basis-loophole... Even without that loophole the…

They borrow money using their assets as collateral

Yeah this is still the case AFAIK - very annoying. I believe their recommended workaround was to have 2 separate merchant accounts with different fee structures and group your prod…

It's not a "good deal" in any case.... The minimum purchase price on iOS is $0.99, so at worst you'd be paying basically the same rate (~30%). But most payment processors offer sep…

Of course the UI is laggy - the web app is built with Flutter! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> as soon as you step out of playground level programming Uhh... pretty sure 99% of all complex JVM applications were written using an IDE. In fact, if you joined an experienced te…

Yeah this entire thing just reeks of low effort clickbait. Classing OkHttp as "Medium Risk" is ridiculous (especially since under the hood it's been the default HTTP library on And…

Ah yes, all those African American people in Kenya

And we call it "Chinese Whispers" in the UK