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We learned this a few years ago when clients starting using emojis when saving their content and it got truncated. Very quickly converted everything to utf8mb4!

emojis like this？🆒

What is this voodoo? I thought HN didn't support emoji? It's sure 🆒 though.

Yikes :O

I could just never get used to Ruby syntax and how wordy it is.

PHP/C/perl-style syntax just feels much nicer/more natural to write and I've never been able to break out of that.

I guess it comes down to personal preference and what you started coding with.

Ruby "wordy" compared with PHP? You have to be joking. PHP is pseudo-Java in terms of verbosity. It's even worse than Java with its culture of space-wasting blank lines and fanfold doc comments.

We changed our tables to utf8mb4 specifically for emoji support

If you know anything about cameras and low light photography, the sensor shift OIS is a HUGE deal, especially combined with an f/1.6 lens. Instant purchase!

Is there a reason for a 10 minute cache duration? Even 1 minute would be fine from a performance point of view

So I'm not hitting the api too much, this is going through a roundabout way to get this data

Noticed this recently when doing an ES6 course. So many additions look similar to modern PHP!

If it's modern PHP specifically, are you saying that both languages are adding a bunch of the same things? That doesn't really sound like one language turning into the other.

It only tracks if the Zoom window has focus, not via facial recognition. How is that bad?

What value is that if I have multiple monitors?