> 2) Strict mode is never turned on; developer has no idea it exists MySQL has b...

davidgerard on May 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The trojan Emoji

> 2) Strict mode is never turned on; developer has no idea it exists

MySQL has been my hair-tearing problem for many years - https://reddragdiva.dreamwidth.org/593924.html - and I had no idea it existed.

There's a secret "don't suck as much" switch? TURN IT ON!!

feld on May 10, 2015 [–]

Wait until the developer learns they need to support unicode.