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I believe that driving an old car for longer has a smaller environmental impact than consistently driving newer cars as the bulk of emissions is during the manufacturing process. I have no data to support my statement, it's just my hunch. I'd be very keen if someone with the right knowledge can approve or disprove my statement.

I though it was:

Acul din carul cu fân

Literal translation: The needle in the hay cart

_My first computer was a Pentium II one and it had Windows 98 installed when I purchased it in 2008_

I think this must be a typo. 2008 seems quite a late time to buy a Pentium II, I had my Pentium II in 1998ish.

Yes, i get the screening process; but asking a candidate to spend 8 hours on implementing a client library for their API at the beginning of the application process is definitely unreasonable. It's not a coding exercise, but a full blown deliverable.

This has really annoyed me recently, I've had interviews with companies that expected me to do a test before even seeing them in person (following a phone interview) and their tasks mentioned I should spend around 8 hours on the test. I think this is definitely unreasonable.

I prefer longer interviews where you're working alongside your potential future colleagues. This way you can also find out if you actually want to work with them or not. Interviews should be a two way affair.

JS Console errors for me.

>>> Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'src' of undefined at t.value (Break.js:92)

I'm really looking forward to this. After 10 years of programming in PHP and maintaining loads of legacy projects I've come to greatly appreciate explicit definitions and strong typing. IMHO being explicit always increases maintainability.

On that page's footer:

> ©2019 Google - Last updated: June 18, 2019 at 3:12:13 PM UTC+1

Looks like it was last updated before the outage.

Wow. I've got 8GB high speed 4G for £30, and I had the phone thrown in for free (Pixel 2)! Incredible how data varies so much in price from country to country.

I'm genuinely interested wether this is a sarcastic submission or actually serious!

> It’s not prejudice or signaling, it’s objectively deficient in ways that haven’t been acceptable in decades.

I don't want to start a useless debate or anything like that, so don't take this in the wrong way, but I am genuinely curious of what specific problems you see in PHP and what are the specific issues with the language.

I can't think of many things that are so bad with it, except the inconsistency in function naming and parameter orders (stuff like `str_pos`, `substr`) and a relatively unreliable SoapClient implementation; I am genuinely interested in seeing what other people think are deficiencies in PHP.

Again, I have to stress I am not being defensive nor offensive, I am just curious on other perspectives in regards to the shortcomings of PHP.

I have been using PHP professionally for 7 years now and I absolutely love it. The community grew up from the old days when I started playing with it (almost 15 years ago). There are incredible pieces of software built with it, and nowadays the language is unrecognisable from the state it was in when it gained the bad reputation. i think Symfony 4 is a wonderful framework and it allows us to use PHP to build things that most would think it's impossible in the language of spaghetti code.

Yes, there are still a lot o people out there that hack some very questionable code together in PHP but we shouldn't dismiss it like this. I've tried multiple languages (C#, Java, javascript) and I have to say PHP is my favourite so far (you guys can comment on this as much as you like, I still like it a lot).

It's disheartening to hear that in a hackathon people got "bullied" for using a programming language. You would never pick upon a mechanic for using a screwdriver instead of a chisel or something similar, as long as he can achieve the same thing.

Also, I can't help to notice a trend of ..."brogramming", where if you don't use the newest and coolest tech you're treated as an outcast, bullied and made fun of; it's quite sad if you ask me.