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Intel x86 considered harmful – survey of attacks against x86 over last 10 years

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276 points chei0aiV | 1 comments | 27 Oct 15 14:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.324s | source
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n0us ◴[27 Oct 15 15:13 UTC] No.10458463[source]▶
I really could do without "considered harmful" titles. x86 has been one of the most influential technologies of all time and a clickbait title doesn't do it justice imo.
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wyager ◴[27 Oct 15 15:41 UTC] No.10458692[source]▶
So were PHP and goto statements.

How influential something is has nothing to do with how good it is.

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jrcii ◴[27 Oct 15 16:25 UTC] No.10459089[source]▶
The PHP bashing on this site is untenable. PHP has no intrinsic properties which stop a good programmer from writing elegant code for web applications. It's a tired discussion, I know, but the most you can say is that it's frequently abused. The oft cited "Spectacle of bad design" essay has been credibly rebutted point-by-point by other authors.
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1. pizza234 ◴[27 Oct 15 17:20 UTC] No.10459537[source]▶
It's hard to take seriously a statement about an article, where even the referenced title is wrong.

It's not nit picking - it shows how one didn't even took them time to read and understand the article; it's "fractal" of bad design, and it's named so for a specific reason.