I've got a bluray writer drive that has been used to install Windows on 3 PCs during its life and nothing else
one of those "oh I'm sure I'd use that if I had one"
it lived in my old gaming pc, unplugged and unpowered, and then got used in both of the new ones and now it sits in my new gaming pc, unplugged and unpowered
you disgust me, the guy leaks information about how the entire world is being spied on by the NSA and it takes him creating a Twitter account before you pay him any attention?
@kalina hey hey NSA girl no encouraging illegal behaviour there
@AviD no, that one was bad too. with all that said, breach fatigue has thoroughly set in in the mainstream press, so I doubt most people will care about either of these :/
@kalina Oh com'on if you take the letters from Kalina it makes the sentence "I work for the NSA"... oh wait I'm missing a "l". It has to be a NSA-deception!
Boy: There are 20 letters in the Alphabet right? Girl: 26. Boy: Ah Heck, sorry i forgot the U R A Q T. Girl: That makes 25. Boy: I know I will give you the D later...
Having pentested a number of custom network protocols (all implemented on top of TCP or UDP, sometimes with (D)TLS as well), I recommend against this idea. You will get it wrong, and then you'll have a remote exploit vector.
It is much, much safer to use an existing data format (JSON via HTTP is...
doesn't this boil down to "trust me, I'm a professional"?
as @RоryMcCune said, any answer, but probably the worst one is: This makes fratbros think that the place will be swamped with chicks, since it's free for them, therefore more guys will come since it's a floozy party and not a sausage fest.
this is not MY answer, just the one I think most likely for them promoters.
@Simon that statement doesn't make PHP better, in fact, because PHP is so much worse than the language that fucked everything up that must make PHP literally worse than Hitler
Compare C with Pascal. They have a pretty similar feature set and were invented around the same time (pascal seems to be slightly older). Pascal is a much better design than C.
you're right though, the moment people like @CodesInChaos start talking about language design I'm all like ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ