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Alternate take and apparently unpopular opinion: the US government can simply force Apple to give them a back door to access iCloud photos directly. What Apple has done here is bot…

The article makes it sounds like they are replacing PageRank. According to the paper it's orthogonal to PageRank. It's just another signal to consider. The other assumption seems t…

"...but it's society as a whole causing this rather than government(s) specifically" It sounds like you are claiming that state surveillance is actually a subset of social pressure…

Good points, I think it's not really the right tool for what you are doing. It's more for large teams and big code bases.

This is correct. OO codifies the pattern of having a struct and a set of functions that operate on it. The syntax does help humans reason about that pattern. But my understanding i…

"For example, we now know that 35% of the variation in a team’s performance can be accounted for simply by the number of face-to-face exchanges among team members." As someone who …

Well, yeah, I agree that the SPL types are nice to have. My complaint is that PHP's only first-class array type is a weird array/map combo. Have you ever seen anything like that in…

You're right, thanks for pointing that out.

This is great news. PHP doesn't have many structured data types, so arrays (aka maps) are basically used for everything. Any improvement to them will impact the entire application.…

Well, I don't see Carrier IQ in the list ;)

There's a slight chance that the government doesn't care about the bigger issue. I guess this would be like nailing a mobster for tax evasion.