What was snarky about it? I agree, he should file a bug report, as I'm on a modern system and don't have lag (I use paint.net and Gimp on Windows 7). But his comment was fairly emotionless and to the point.
Like you said, I wouldn't use it without first cleaning the input.
I guess I use it more out of habit and preferring a straight variable to an array... just feels neater.
Good point on the memory, but I wouldn't think thats a big issue.
I haven't tested right now, but I dont remember ever having issues using the $_GET variable after exporting?
Not sure if thats what you meant.
Just generally, don't write SQL queries as strings. An ORM is one option, language-level extensions another. But for that you need some good macros in your language - or convince the maintainers of your compiler to add it to the language (like Microsoft did in C#).
Swift's high-level syntax will probably open up iOS development to many people who otherwise would have seen Objective-C's square brackets and run away.
I like Go a lot, but Google switching to it for Android would probably have the opposite effect. Many people learn Java in school. Almost no one learns Go.
People don't learn Objective-C in school, but it has not slowed down adoption of the language for the iOS platform. If the platform is popular, and a language supports it well, programmers will learn.
I love Go; having Go as an option for Android development would be awesome because the language is just so much fun. I'm not getting my hopes up though, because Go was intended for server-side stuff. Object-oriented design is a great strategy for rapid app development, and this is the key different between Swift and Go that I've noticed.
In the Netherlands you can buy various potential houses for 1 euro, like old water towers, factories or boats.
The problem is that once bought, you are obliged to renovate the object (since most of them are considered "monuments"), and renovation costs can easily cost €500k to 1M.
Also, because the objects are monuments, there are very strict rules on what you are permitted to change (like the color of the paint), making renovation very difficult or even impossible.
I do wonder what the realistic cost of moving it somewhere would be. Assuming, that you would like to take it out of water and put on a property somewhere. Would it be in hundreds of thousands of dollars? Or more like millions?
The first thing I noticed was the enormous lag of the mouse movements. So I think for an free alternative I will stick to Gimp.