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Mobile Twitter is maybe the single most useless website I’ve ever had to use lol. Clicking on a link to a tweet has 1/20 chance of ever actually loading the tweet. All other occurrences are evenly split between loading nothing except the top bar and calling it a day, and throwing an error message. Reloading the directly or using the reload button they provide will usually result in the rate limiting message. I don’t…
I turned off Javascript and it worked fantastically.
Really says a lot doesn’t it.
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And to show you that 280 characters they need to download about 6 kbyte css, 4 kbyte javascript, 17 kbyte Google analytics, 26 kbyte jquery, 1.5 kbyte favicon, and some images... Total about 100 kbytes.
It's almost as if "they literally just have to show you 280 characters" is a bit of an oversimplification.
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Especially since it forces you to basically map out your entire site before letting users register accounts. Or you rename users squatting your routes later on, which seems like a terrible idea.
Or, you take advantage of lists like this[0] and make sure users can’t pick names that would be “problematic”. [0] https://zimbatm.github.io/hostnames-and-usernames-to-reserve...
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I turned off Javascript and it worked fantastically.
I feel like every week I get another reason to turn JS off. Really says a lot doesn’t it.
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“Next time you make a seemingly obvious mistake, don't feel too bad. Even Twitter did it.” There most infamous “mistake”, at least as I see it, was neglecting to backup their database data. That was just unforgivable.
I bet they had a backup, it was just never tested... pretty common mistake
From the Fortune article “Let's remember why Jack Dorsey was fired as Twitter's CEO”
http://fortune.com/2015/09/30/jack-dorsey-twitter-ceo-fired/
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http://php.net/manual/en/language.types.array.php First sentence, “An array in PHP is actually an ordered map.”
I just read at least half that page and this idiotic design confirms exactly why I feel PHP should be considered harmful
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It was due to the way they exported the data. They used a SQL statement, and if you weren’t in a guild then the SQL would produce NULL. That output was then used to generate PDF badges, and it tried to do some filtering for NULL guilds. The person writing that script clearly did not anticipate there actually being a guild named NULL.
NULL or ‘NULL’? There’s a clear and obvious difference there.
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Across multiple services 5hat seems right. So much stuff has broken or buggy UI it's not funny.
Consider that the bare minimum for dozens is 24...
I probably hit at least 24 bugs a day on my phone. Apps crashing. Back not working right. Apps popping up and disappearing. Unexpected latency causing wrong things to be clicked on. They're all just papercuts, but there are so many of them.
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That sounds like a pretty PHP-specific bug. Downvoters: most programming languages don’t silently convert strings (i.e., usernames) to array indices. Even Python doesn’t do this. While this particular bug probably wouldn’t be possible in most other languages, I’m only commenting because it’s rare and amusing to see bugs that are so language specific. I’m not making a generic “lol PHP” joke.
Python doesn’t do any implicit coercion (apart from ints and floats etc), right?
>>> b'egg' + u'spam'
u'eggspam'