Pop quiz: can you spot the problem in this PHP snippet? I just got tripped up by it and it was very Not Fun. (This is rewritten to be a minimal example.)
if ( $coolness > 10 ) {
define('COOL_MODE', true);
}
@tomw@datarama@abucci yes. Php was successful because it was a horrible mess that worked if idiots used it. They are now trying to make it a proper language, but all the code that the idiots wrote is still running on live servers everywhere.
It's our own fault: we should have pushed back when they forcibly removed register_globals. Once they got away with that absolute catastrophuck, we were doomed.
@Geoff@datarama@abucci I think it's more that they want to focus on an audience that's building "apps" instead of pages.
When you're just adding some widget to a page, you want it to just error out and the rest of the page to still continue. You don't want execution to 'correctly' stop on error.
Why has no one made "Slack but free and simple"? Have I missed it? Every proprietary alternative seems to be a featuritis nightmare (eg. Discord) while the open source ones are too busy fretting about perfect encryption and decentralisation to be simple/friendly.
@tomw I never heard of eMule, but your mention of Kazaa brings back lovely memories of one of the first viruses I downloaded when I was too young and stupid for the internet.
@mahryekuh Yeah definitely! Some of these things were borderline viruses in themselves, full of bonzi buddies and comet cursors. I installed way too many...
@onnob Yeah, I'd maybe add something about time of day, though people I'm emailing tend to either expect office hours as obvious or evening as obvious, depending on who they are!
Windows people, please understand this. Sometimes people need to run Linux.
They’re allowed to complain about printers not working, or sound issues, or any other hardware compatibility problems, without you saying “use Windows” every time.
I like the idea of this group of annoying Windows evangelists going around replying to every post about operating systems. They tell you to please call it by its correct name, "Microsoft Windows"
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, Microsoft Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Microsoft plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functioning Microsoft system made useful by Microsoft Office, Microsoft Edge and vital system components comprising a full OS. Many computer users run a modified version of the Microsoft system every day, without realizing it. Through a p