Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "PHP will make you poor? StackOverflow 2023 Results" video.

  1. MATLAB was originally designed for matrix manipulations. For that, it seems to be fine. However, I once had to use its GUI functions, to build a real-time display and processor for multichannel EEG data. Let’s just say, if it’s a choice between that and being covered in honey and tied down in the hot sun next to an anthill ... maybe the ants aren’t so bad ...
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  2. If you’re a PHP expert, can you explain what’s going on here: $array1 = [1, 2]; $array2 = [1, 2]; $x = &$array2[1]; $array1a = $array1; $array2a = $array2; $array1a[0] = $array2a[0] = 23; $array1a[1] = $array2a[1] = 22; echo "\$array1 = " . print_r($array1, true) . ", \$array2 = " . print_r($array2, true) . "\n"; Do the two arrays print out the same? Why/why not?
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  3.  @pabloripoll  Server side needs async and also things like WebSockets now. Which PHP can’t quite manage.
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  4.    And all built on a much nicer core language!
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  5. I think PHP is the ur-example of a language designed by people who have no degrees, only “experience and a solid portfolio”.
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  6.  @CdrRogue  Yeah! Some features which were originally deprecated are no longer deprecated! Can any other language claim that kind of progress?
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  7. I’m not so sure. That AI only exists because of training sets. What happens when there are no more training sets?
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  8. Does PHP/Laravel do async yet? How do you handle WebSockets?
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  9. I know a couple from Mumbai who reckon that’s quite a nice city. Nicer than Delhi, anyway.
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  10. “My machine is supposed to be fast. Why is my code so slow?” “Do you understand the locality principle?”
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  11.  @pabloripoll  Do PHP programmers use references in any “real project scenario”, then?
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  12.  @sudeshryan8707  Hint: try the code and see what it actually prints.
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  13. Even with higher taxes, socialist-style (i.e. Government-provided) healthcare still only has about half the cost per capita of US-style medical insurance.
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  14.  @MK-bs3dq  is Swoole compatible with Laravel?
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  15. Python has ASGI for Web development. PHP doesn’t seem to have any equivalent.
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  16. Microsoft itself won’t use it for anything important. For example, VS Code is built on Electron with TypeScript/JavaScript.
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  17. In my first job outside of University, everybody had a degree, but mine was the only one in Comp Sci.
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  18. 0:49 What’s the most obscure language on that diagram that you know something about? In my case, it’s probably Algol 68.
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  19. If Jesus is God, and Jesus is the son of God, does that mean that Jesus is his own grandpa?
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  20. Even Microsoft won’t use Dotnet for anything important ...
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  21. SQL is de rigueur for interfacing to just about any RDBMS. Even the non-relational ( née “NoSQL”) DBMSes are now adopting some form of SQL as their query language.
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  22. Other countries also have the number-one cause of death of their children be by gunshot wounds, right? ... Right?
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  23. “self-thought” ... I guess studying psychology does that to you ...
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  24. Think about what “sunk-cost fallacy” means ...
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  25. Cold Fusion, WebObjects, Java applets ... how many more names can I drop to confirm I was alive before this century?
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  26. Sure they do ...∗clik∗ ... sure they do ... ∗clik∗ ... sure they do ...
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