Sure, but if they'd made just a tiny effort to test their code before releasing it they'd have caught that bug instantly. We're not talking about time-consuming tests here - we talking about loading the page in the…
Maybe I went a little overboard with those words. However, it's not so much the typo; it's the fact that the typo caused passwords to be visible.
TL;DR: Amateurish PHP developers at Tumblr fuck up; HN developers who don't know PHP that well make wildly incorrect assumptions about PHP. People, I know it's en vogue to bash PHP (just wait, in a few years it'll be…
Sure, but if they'd made just a tiny effort to test their code before releasing it they'd have caught that bug instantly. We're not talking about time-consuming tests here - we talking about loading the page in the…
Maybe I went a little overboard with those words. However, it's not so much the typo; it's the fact that the typo caused passwords to be visible.
TL;DR: Amateurish PHP developers at Tumblr fuck up; HN developers who don't know PHP that well make wildly incorrect assumptions about PHP. People, I know it's en vogue to bash PHP (just wait, in a few years it'll be…