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>Having said this, I've found limited proof that a particular language is any safer than another as it comes down to safe coding policies and risk mitigation strategies. Proof is r…

1. That you do not require any part of Go (except the obvious ones that are inside the compiled binary) to exist on the live server. 2. That Go is designed as a programming languag…

Why would they have a host with PHP installed on the same server where money is handled?! Totally irresponsible. I'm being serious. Unless you have Facebook's resources (and probab…

"I don't like language arguments." Well, if you like PHP, how could you like language arguments? After all, they always end up destroying your beliefs.

> Any respectable PHP developer nowadays uses a decent framework, and there are many. "There are many" equals "almost all are bad".

No, you're quite wrong there.

No, they also suffer from the pattern misuse pattern and are also slow as hell.

"If PHP developers are made to feel terrible, they will leave and there will be less and less great developers working with PHP." I don't quite see how this might be a problem. Doe…

There are worse things than PHP out there :) Many of the so-called 4th generation languages (i.e. business shits derived from Cobol with DB support bolted in) are totally crazy in …

PHP seems to fall apart in the seams when trying to reach a higher abstraction level. For instance, Symfony 2 tries very hard to include modern OO techniques in there, but the end …

"Poor people today have it easy because they can get government benefits without doing anything in return" vs "Poor people today have hard lives because government benefits don't g…

>I wonder if keeping CVS is not one of the smartest things the OpenBSD project does now. Given that OpenBSD is supposed to be a security-oriented OS, it's slightly weird that they …

>It would actually promote bad behavior. Can you elaborate on that?

Even though I fully know that I'm being superficial and silly, I cannot help but find it hard to take seriously projects that do not use either git or mercurial for the sources in …

Rust and/or Nim, depending on which will feel better as I learn more.

http://www.paulgraham.com/know.html Learning Haskell adds to the mass of things you know, and the volume of that mass determines the level of your general expertise. You asked for …

"they should probably steal some more ideas from FreeBSD" Which ideas would you think are worth stealing from there?

A language is often not improved by adding features. Rust has a relatively clean slate (for now), which makes it a vastly better experience.

Did Paypal just remove the issue reporting page or is the link in the article just wrong? https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/security/report-problem