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As a Laravel dev who almost went down the Rails path, I’m curious: what advantages do you think Rails has over Laravel at this point?

This is the Soylent hypothesis. "Processed food" as such is not the problem—it's processed food used as a delivery vehicle for as many addictive sugars, fats, and simple carbs as p…

Classic story for HN I assume. I'm a developer with an idea for a SaaS trying to figure out what's in store for me if I pursue it. My question in a nutshell: What are the current b…

I would recommend Kafka's short story "The Great Wall of China"

> It's so easy in the vacuum of a single developer with a single application to think everyone should keep up to date, but the reality is most of the PHP sites on the internet are …

I've heard this criticism of Laravel a couple times and never understood it. I've been using the framework for years and have never had an issue with upgrades. There is a clear and…

> How do you compose two base classes into a subclass? In most other OOP languages besides JS, the obvious answer would be to use traits.

Honest question: what's so bad about the reddit redesign?

PHP has had optionally typed function parameters and return values since the late 5.x releases I think (current release is 7.3). Types are checked at runtime and throw TypeErrors i…

It would be far from the first HN article (or comment) that failed to make a distinction between "poorly designed object-oriented systems" and the very idea of OOP, design patterns…

I was glad to see this posted here. Reading it again, I thought, "I can't be the only one who works in ad tech yet broadly agrees with this proposal."

Very impressive. Does the federal government have anything comparable to this?

I'm a (primarily backend/API) web developer, with 5 years of experience at this point, and I've been planning to apply to Georgia Tech OMSCS in order to branch out into different s…

They've addressed this many times. There are different "grades" of maltodextrin with different glycemic indexes. Soylent uses a higher grade with a low glycemic index. Google "low …

> It always amazed me when someone looks at computer systems of the 70's through the lens of "today's" technology and then projects a failure of imagination on the part of those en…

I'm highly curious about Rust as a potential introduction to systems programming. One thing that bothers me is the lack of proper classes. This seems to have become a trend among n…

> Most professional developers I talked to are perfectly fine with the changes. They just weren't interested in taking part in the online drama. You just described my reaction to e…

This is false. Soylent is classified as a food, and has to follow the same FDA requirements as any other food. "Soylent is not in violation of any product-safety standards or requi…

>I think that Soylent will go down as a cautionary tale for anyone who looks at a field they know very little about and thinks "how hard could it be?". Along with Theranos. Terribl…

DNS resolves for me now but the page doesn't load.

You're describing the reality that any observant Millenial lives in. Unfortunately, the spurious trend pieces will continue until Boomers finally grasp that the economy no longer o…

Was anyone else disturbed by Strack and Martin's hand-waving away the null replication result? Based on my (admittedly elementary) knowledge of statistics, it seems like 17 replica…

Correct me if I'm misreading, but I have a hard time seeing how the study supports your hypothesis. In the "Discussion" section, the authors state that their heritability estimate …