Clechay

Both are equally bad.
You should use mt_rand or mt_srand
Why limit the characters to only those in the array? There's other characters on all keyboards that can be easily typed:
 
 

 
From "!" (0x21) to "~" (0x7E) all characters can be manually entered by keyboard or safely printed on screen or sent through email.
Sure, you may want to avoid similar characters like ' (apostrophe, 0x27) and ` (grave accent, 0x60) but it's no biggie.
 
so you could have:
 
function make_password($length=16) { $code = ''; for ($i=0; $i<$length;$i++) { $character_code = mt_rand( 0x21 , 0x7E ); $code .= chr( $character_code ); } return $code; } But Honestly, a better password would be to pick 5-8 random words from a dictionary and capitalize some letters and add some punctuation or hyphens, exclamations, would make for better passwords. Then make a sha256 or md5 hash of that phrase and store that in the database (hashes are fixed length, good for DB storage)
 
obligatory xkcd
 

 
 
 
 
 

http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php/UnityScript_versus_JavaScript
 

You can add Microsoft Visual Code - text editor based on same technology as Atom but fast and stable

Dat Guy is a troll, don't feed him

Dat Guy is a troll, don't feed him

Not true either. 

not every frontend, but most

Why do you think every frontend has to have scripts of any sort?

No, why?

because it's the only scripting language that all browsers can parse?

This is my MVC framework. Still a work in progress though.
Created for learning purposes only. Maybe I'll use this someday for a personal project.
 
https://github.com/iDutch/RHMVC

The screen size (UHD) I find to have no use for me on a laptop. You gotta scale up everything on laptop monitor anyways, as you do not want to have your face glued to the screen to see stuff, so for my opinion 1080p is enough.
 
The ram depends on what you are working with. If you got multiple dockers or vagrants running, you might be even lacking when having 16gigs of ram. I've hit that 16gb mark with my work laptop, but if you aren't running any virtual machines, then you should not worry for this

Totally. It's kinda been by subtle point all along 

Anybody who says SSD is not a must is not a serious programmer  

English
 

"What do you language recommend new programmers start with?"
 
Based on that title structure, I'd recommend English.
 
Joking aside, I'd start with the basics of html, then once you can make a half-decent site (in notepad, no sitebuilding tools) I'd switch to php.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck
you missed one

It completely depends on the licensing of the source code. If it's an open source one (like BSD, MIT, or GPL), you'll probably be able to get away with what you are proposing provided you abide by what's stated in the license file.
 
Some are more relaxed about what you do with the code than others. For example, MIT licenses require that you only keep the license file and the copyright information. If it's GPL though, any changes you make must be GPL licensed as well, and you must provide a way for someone to obtain said source code.
 
But all in all, read the license thoroughly. If you miss even one thing, Amazon can sue the pants off you.

You're right.
It is illegal to do *anything* with it though, including reading, using or compiling it.

You make an interface that app (backend) uses identically to communicate with every client but this interface utilizes different technologies depending on what client supports. Example of such interface is socket.io which is in fact capable of using not only few different socket technologies but also xhr if client does not support sockets at all 

Software is unreliable. Get a thermal probe and hook it up to a multimeter :3
 
(I'm not being serious, by the way)

Check out  socket.io

Check out  socket.io

Somebody ignored JS and Ruby as web-server langs despite PHP being incapable of creating functional server