Is it still vulnerable to the Samy Kamkar worm?
Haha, you read my mind. Came here to search for "but most of all, samy is my hero"
Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
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Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#182Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hilariously, ColdFusion strikes again. I should have used pound signs around the bad_memories variable. The above code would dump the string "bad_memories". Corrected:
I still can't believe someone came up with this syntax and thought it was a good idea.
The guy who invented that syntax was J.J. Allaire. Bill Gates passed on his advisors recommendation and didn't buy Allaire because he thought the price was too high. Instead he bought a company in Hawaii building what became ASP.net. However he was quite impressed with J.J.
But years later when J.J. started a second company, it was only a few weeks old when Gates swept in and bought it for millions of dollars.. Shut it down and moved everyone to Seattle.. He immediately assigned J.J. and his team to build a new project called Azure.
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These words are so true. I feel the same way. Nothing to add.
This. I miss that refugee camp of misfits, outcast from society, before that which haunted us came back with a vengeance. There should be a non-cooperate sector of the web. Where all is GPL and this taint on the world could be removed.
Ironically, meekmockmook's sibling comment to mine is [dead] for no discernible reason:
> A world without newsfeeds and algorithmically/SEO driven culture wars? A world without our social lives being manipulated by shady Big Tech firms and VCs, free of corporate surveillance? A man can dream.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still can't believe someone came up with this syntax and thought it was a good idea.
The guy who invented that syntax was J.J. Allaire. Bill Gates passed on his advisors recommendation and didn't buy Allaire because he thought the price was too high. Instead he bought a company in Hawaii building what became ASP.net. However he was quite impressed with J.J. But years later when J.J. started a second company, it was only a few weeks old when Gates swept in and bought it for millions of dollars.. Shut…
J.J. Allaire's other brother and partner in ColdFusion was Jeremy. Jeremy has started two successful companies since leaving Macromedia. They are BrightCove and Circle. I don't know about Circle but at one time parts of BrightCove were running on ColdFusion.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
> originalist You mean the folks who think a black person is worth 3/5th of a white person? Yeah I imagine they have it rough.
You're forgetting a aspect: the Constitutional clause has been superseded by the 14th Amendment. So in this case, an originalist would rule based on the Amendment, not the just Constitution's original text. And this display a crucial point, there is a legal process to amend the Constitution not relying on a few scholars re-re-re-interpretation. I'm all for a Constitutional Amendment on abortion, as long as it's the W…
There's two ways to interpret the constitution: the honest way, and the way where you pretend that not only were the Founders of one mind on what the Constitution meant, but also that you can read that mind two and a half centuries later.
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#186As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…
> The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms
It’s funny, because when Facebook was new my friends and I flocked to it FOR the uniformity! Little did we know we helped contribute to the downfall of the free and fun internet :/
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hilariously, ColdFusion strikes again. I should have used pound signs around the bad_memories variable. The above code would dump the string "bad_memories". Corrected:
I don't believe that /> is needed anymore. You can just use >
I unfortunately work with coldfusion/cmfl on a daily basis at my company. I am moving the servers over to Lucee from Coldfusion 10 and trying to have any new systems built on C#/.net. The most difficult part is getting other people on board. My manager is fine with what I am doing. He saids he is too old to learn a new language so myself and the other programmer will have to support anything I built in .net
Let me tell you folks. Writing spaghetti code with no separation of concerns and no version control is not exclusive to php
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#188I'm absolutely blown away by the speed of this website. Facebook and Twitter are a bloated heavy mess in comparison. I just registered for an account and I'm getting super nostalgic. Really well done! Edit: here's my profile in case someone wants to add me :) https://spacehey.com/mrzool
Server side rendered content is better in nearly all cases. From some reason people think that offloading html/css rendering to users is somehow faster. It really isn't. My home site is faster to access half way across the world served from a raspberry pi than twitter is.
Client side rendered won't be faster all things being equal since they'll have to make at least an extra round trip request after the initial (html/js/css) requests for data from the API, but it should definitely be much cheaper since you can lean on the client's compute rather than solely your own servers.
Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/twitter/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast enough, and what each of those sites have in common is the impracticability of precaching every single user's version of the application anyways.
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#189As someone with extremely deep contempt for Silicon Valley, Big Tech monopolies, and modern social media culture, this brought a tear to my eye.It was so easy to make new friends online once upon a time. The fascist uniformity of modern social platforms has left a generation creatively stifled and alienated from each other. I miss the ugly comet cursors, the crummy MIDI tunes, the bad HTML, the encouragement to make…
I try to get away from all that by hosting a site on gopher. Neocities would be another option, if you need the eye candy.
I hate social media, going so far as to delete both my reddit and Mastodon accounts. But this is tempting. It gives me the feeling I used to get when listening to tunes and surfing last.fm
Re: Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007
#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
Server side rendered content is better in nearly all cases. From some reason people think that offloading html/css rendering to users is somehow faster. It really isn't. My home site is faster to access half way across the world served from a raspberry pi than twitter is.
Client side rendered won't be faster all things being equal since they'll have to make at least an extra round trip request after the initial (html/js/css) requests for data from the API, but it should definitely be much cheaper since you can lean on the client's compute rather than solely your own servers. Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/twitter/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast e…
Given the popularity of facebook/reddit/gmail etc. it seems users think client-side rendering is fast enough
No, users are being forced to choose between not using those services, and using something which is clearly getting worse. There are plenty of complaints, yet the self-centered developers just don't care since they know the users will keep eating whatever shit they put out.
(...and in the case of Reddit, the existence and continuing popularity of old.reddit.com is noteworthy.)