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It’s not dead but there’s no point in learning it if you don’t know it already. Pretty much every language used for web development is better than PHP. Python is more consistent and has better support for async code. JavaScript can be used on backend, web and mobile, Java and C# are faster and have better typing

How the blockchain solution is better than SWIFT?

Why there were no blockchain projects for the last 10 years?

That's the first Google+ link I've seen in like three years.

It feels that GitHub failed to create an ecosystem and did little innovating it just turned a single-tenant application to multi-tenant (which sometimes is no small feat). They could've created other developer-oriented products - issue management, CI, code review etc and they could've innovated more in their primary area that is storing code like providing better tools for code exploration than simple search (see GitQL project).

If you have a sign-up page, the usual "invalid email or password" message on sign-in form doesn't increase security.

Though I wonder how it would work with pg-bouncer.

You can disable certain scan types in Postgres and that's something I had to do when no matter what it reported incorrect stats.

Of course there's a reason, that's because people deploy production systems on Linux servers. As far as overall experience goes, I'm ok with Linux as DE because I don't really need much - as long as it runs terminal, editor (with not completely horrible fonts) and browser it's fine.

I'm talking about end result here, developing on Linux requires delving into stuff I don't really care about.

This kind of crap on HN? Srsly? The problem with desktop Linux is poor hardware support. I have Ubuntu on a desktop and on a relatively recent HP laptop. Here's a short list of problems I've experienced - incorrect Nvidia drivers installed by default, random crashes after screen lock, brightness controls don't work out-of-the-box, Wi-Fi dies after waking up, fingerprint scanner doesn't work and never will. I never had to deal with such crap on a Mac.

Same thing happened when I wanted to know how to convert private method to public in Ruby. Yeah, that's not what people usually do (and not what they should do) but I really needed to know. The reason was laughable, "unclear question" even though it was perfectly clear what were my intentions.

For me the biggest problem with SO is that it's hard to get answers to advanced questions in some areas. Not a lot of people could answer the question in the first place, because it's about some obscure and rarely encountered problem, and these experts are constantly spammed with basic questions from inexperienced programmers. Though it depends on the area you're interested in - I've got almost no answers to advanced Rails-related questions and got pretty good responses to Scala-related stuff I'm interested in (but maybe it's because Scala questions were about more basic stuff)