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mylittleponyon World trembles in confusion and/or fear at Iran's fiberglass airplane

Are you saying that what happened on and after 1979, would have happened anyway? How hypocritical. I can't understand that need to rewrite history to look good. I guess it's hard to tell your children stories of how you destroyed entire cultures. Fairy tales are nicer.

mylittleponyon World trembles in confusion and/or fear at Iran's fiberglass airplane

Just so you know, they were quite open minded and were doing very well, until the US came in for the oil:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_AHJQiMxIw

Photo of women in 1979, before Islamic Revolution:

http://i47.tinypic.com/eagiv9.jpg

mylittleponyon U.S. to sue S&P over ratings ahead of financial crisis

"Whether the alternative was worse or better does not even matter, the system is doomed"

It wouldn't show that it was not bound for the same fate, but at least it would show you have the minimum level of self-respect, pride as a nation, and awareness needed to fix the issue in the future. Money, charm, and favoritism shouldn't drive and win a political campaign. Idealists should be able to get attention and be elected, instead of being hidden and smeared: establish a number of TV slots at random, say 10 or 20, pick candidates at random (if there are more than the available slots), and let them have the same air time. Also, corporations shouldn't be allowed to make donations to finance political campaigns. That's bribe in our faces. Teach the basics of economics in schools, so they understand where inflation comes from, and how it's not a natural disaster.

mylittleponyon U.S. to sue S&P over ratings ahead of financial crisis

I always feel like everything that is happening in the US, has already happened in Argentina. But every time I mention it, I get dismissed like it was a stupid comparison. And then it happens again and again, and then I hear the exact same thing from other Argentinians that have been to or live in America, they try to warn you, but no one wants to hear, so they get dismissed too.

Seeing Obama reelected was the final proof I needed. Whether the alternative was worse or better does not even matter, the system is doomed. People will vote whatever they see on TV, and will fall for the same old politician tricks. Get the poor and the naive, win the elections, and then steal from everyone through things like inflation and bailouts.

I'll just drop here this perverse quote from Obama, after he saw that the current president of Argentina (who absolutely destroyed what was left of the country) got 54% of votes and got reelected on 2011. He said something like "I have things to learn from you". Sure, it could be nothing, don't listen to me.

mylittleponyon 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (2011)

I don't know what you mean. You just tell the web server what you want to do, and it will do it. Eg: "Process only files in this dir, and only accept requests to this kind of URL. And any request to that kind URL, pass it to this single php file".

Do software like XAMP have bad defaults and shouldn't be used for production out of the box? Maybe.

Has that helped a lot of people to get started, and make PHP the most popular server language for the web? Definitely.

Should we mock all php devs including experts, because of designers or ninja CEOs who tried/succeeded in editiing or making a website but made some mistakes in the process? The answer is still no.

mylittleponyon 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (2011)

If you wanna see php done right, forget about all the crap you have seen and take a look at symfony.com. It has great docs, that focus on teaching web development (not just a framework) and all these sysadmin best practices like how to set the permissions, etc. Trust me, I have used every popular framework (including Rails and Django), and Symfony2 has nothing to envy.

mylittleponyon 1% of CMS-Powered Sites Expose Their Database Passwords (2011)

That's not restricted to PHP, since it does not even depend on the language.

mylittleponyon We should only work 25 hours a week, argues professor

When I worked as an employee, I learned to slow all my tasks down to finish them right on time. That way I wouldn't be assigned more tasks than my coworkers, in punishment for being efficient and fast.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

Let me give you an honest advice on how to not be a fallacies noob. Try explaining what's wrong with their argument, without incurring in the arrogant attitude of just mentioning the name of the fallacy and downvoting. That way you will stop trying to make every argument fit into a fallacy, and start truly understanding what (if anything) is wrong with it.

I must have corrected the 'ad hominem' thing at least 5 times today, so I'm tired. It's not ad hominem if it's not trying to undermine an argument (it's just insulting or trolling), and it's not ad hominem either if it's relevant (eg: programmer does not know the basics, that fact comes to light, and is used against him in a programming discussion).

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

Are you kidding me? I was copying his style, to show him how irrelevant and childish the statement was.

Also, it wasn't an ad hominem, since there wasn't any argument being debated. Get your fallacies straight.

I guess this is why you have 9999 submissions with 1 point. To be able to go around downvoting and incorrectly calling people out on a fallacy (the new trick you have learned).

mylittleponyon Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s Eight Books Everyone Should Read

Why is it good? Only Christians should read it (to become atheists). For anyone else, I think it's a waste of time.

mylittleponyon Why we stopped using Drupal for our platform

These stupid generalizations about PHP devs have to end some day, right? Symfony2 (as example) is a piece of software that is probably light years away from anything you have done in software engineering. And its community is way better both in knowledge and openness than the Rails one (I've been a Rails dev too, and have my own rants to make, but I don't go around saying Ruby devs are all noobs) IMO. Yet here you are, making generalizations based on having written code in plain php, working in a piece of software that I don't even know when it was created, but I guess it was here before we even started programming.

And for the sweet downvotes, I'll just drop this here:

Tell me more about how you read the GoF book, and applied the patterns in a language that does not even have interfaces or type-hinting. What a joke. On a recent article, another "Ruby expert" (who writes and sells programming books) was shocked by the fact that you can reuse code with inheritance. You should read it.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

I'm fairly certain you don't think it's a lie, and you are just envious.

Either way, I don't see how any of this matters. I explained why I criticized the guy, and instead of working on that, you tried to undermine the anecdotal part.

mylittleponyon Vulnerabilities in dozens of Military and Pentagon websites

In case someone too naive is reading, using something like tor won't give you hacker super powers. The only real protection you can have is knowing what you are doing, and even then you can fail. I wouldn't recommend messing with stuff like this while you are eating a donut and reading hacker news (nor any other moment for that matter).

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

"You can reuse code with inheritance. Absolutely crazy. Brilliant.

All of this blew me away."

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

> A lot of programmers are insecure.

You mean a lot of persons? If you don't, I wonder where you got this from. Personal experience maybe?

Anecdotic: I have always been good at sports, popular, and confident, and I criticized this article because he used a kind of link-bait title (should have been "Today I learned about inheritance and it's awesome", something like that), and he also turned out to be selling programming books like he was an expert, which is scammy, and reinforces the fact that you can only find good books through recommendations from your peers.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

No problem at all, I was talking about the book. Even if he hasn't lied, when one reads the "author" section, it sounds like he's an expert. In the description of the book it also says it can help you even if you are a "veteran", which might be true (or not), but makes one think he is a veteran too. It's misleading.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

The basics? Yes they should learn that, years before starting to teach.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

It would be an ad hominem if the book was about gardening but it's not, it's about programming.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

> I also don't like how your comment tries to make fun of his efforts to learn something new.

The problem is not that he's learning, he's teaching.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

How is that relevant?

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

"He is the creator of some of the most widely used RubyMotion libraries"

Then everyone is surprised when critical bugs come to light in Ruby stuff.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

I guess he's gonna come back with another article when he realizes composition > inheritance.

mylittleponyon How A Pull Request Rocked My World

At that point I closed the article and thought "Wtf HN, why was this on the front page?". Then I remembered that anything Ruby-related gets automatic upvotes, even if the author does not know the first thing about OOP.

mylittleponyon Why We Still Believe in Working Remotely

I wish I knew how to get hired remotely. I'm an experienced programmer, but I happen to also be a security paranoid, so not only I have not bothered building an online persona, I have also removed every trace of myself on the internet. I can prove my experience, but not to an HR guy. I also think I have good written English, and yet I haven't even had a response to any emails I've sent for remote work in other countries (I don't want to work for my country, for several reasons). Any thoughts?

mylittleponyon RethinkDB example apps

Why not PHP? =/

mylittleponyon The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded

Indeed, but to be fair, 22 million is nothing, especially for a country so big as Australia. Also, it wasn't just one crazy person or crazy group. They were random people in a bus, and they had the same anger and hate. Wtf was that?

I'm curious, where in Australia do you live if I may ask?

mylittleponyon The Australian Computer Society should be disbanded

It's usually an egg/chicken problem. Employers want you to have a visa first, and visa wants you to have an employer first.

mylittleponyon Chinese Hackers Infiltrate New York Times Computers

I don't see it. I was adding to the argument that you are using the word "theory" with a negative connotation, which makes absolutely no sense. And that mistake is very common in America, since you have religious folks spreading misinformation all over the country, including schools. On the other hand, I can see an ad hominem here:

> the idea of Americans/Zionists/Illuminati/Nibiru pulling the strings behind every major event is no doubt very exciting for conspiracy theorists

Someone is a "conspiracy theorist", so whatever he finds exciting must be wrong.