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Comment · 14 years ago
You're welcome for the self-promotion.

I feel that telling people to just blaze through functional programming is silly, as completely understanding CS roots (instead of sticking to today's easy languages) and understanding all the programming paradigms are important.

Good luck with that shamelessly using networks crap. It makes friends I'm sure.

Comment · 14 years ago
That's the point. If they were doing their job and interrogating well as well as investigating well they'd catch them all just like Sabu. Unfortunately they're not and it's easier to offer a plea deal after a short period of intimidation so they do that. I think they should all pay, but this way they just abuse something built into the system that was made as an incentive for people they didn't think they COULD catch otherwise.
Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for recognizing one of the biggest downfalls of it. They could be opening the Apple platforms for massive "protect yourself" scare sales.
Comment · 14 years ago
This is a great step. I am personally pretty hateful of Apple's decisions as far as hardware lockdown and restrictive use, but it's a tradeoff they offer customers and many consider it a good deal.

That aside, being more security minded as opposed to claiming immunity for marketing purposes is a fantastic move and one to be applauded by the tech community.

Comment · 14 years ago
Sweet, hey I'm going to post a few games coming out soon that I hope they get adequate funding too.

First is Anarchy Reigns, being published by Platinum. Sega's shaky on US releases of games like this, so if you guys would self-hype and pre-order I'd like it a lot.

Also...I may or may not be a Platinum fanboy/employee trying to push viral status.

Comment · 14 years ago
Just as much as the game itself, and patches to it. Nothing is that tentative. Once they give up some, they set a precedent.
Comment · 14 years ago
When they call Anonymous a hacking collective, you know they're either too stupid, or too corrupt to say it like it is.

They're just a bunch of stupid kids, and I wouldn't label what Anonymous as a whole is doing as hacking regardless of how you painted it. Lulzsec on the hand...are a bunch of kids who learned TRICKS before they gained the knowledge that comes with it.

After years of learning and you get to a point of finding exploits yourself, you understand at this point WHY doing things is a bad idea.

They skipped the learning phase and just learned some stupid tricks that allowed them to do a lot of damage while knowing little.

Comment · 14 years ago
There was a slip which led to his capture. Instead of paying the unfettered price for the crimes he committed, he ratted out his friends in a blatant abuse of the system in order to lessen his punishment.

The lesson for today kids, is never commit a crime alone, so you have someone to rat out on for that plea deal!

Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for posting a link to your own basic html how-to on hacker news.

I wish I could downvote.

Let us hope the community is smarter than to support this self-serving, pointless endeavor.

Comment · 14 years ago
Thanks for spamming hacker news with multiple of the same article. I hope your karma rating is worth the damage it does to the community.
Comment · 14 years ago
I fully agree, but unfortunately us hacker-kind are no longer the norm nor the majority here. It's all startups and tons of people with business degrees.

Technical papers get downvotes while people's blog posts about how to hire/fire people get upvoted.

Comment · 14 years ago
You mistake my use of anticipated. I agree with you, I meant the change was anticipated as in "It was expected to happen". It was in the cards to happen eventually, whether it was intelligent or not.

Returning null in the math library at all just seems counter-intuitive.

Comment · 14 years ago
I think the guy wasn't thinking the situation through entirely, but someone of (relative respect I suppose, creator of PHP is still the creator of something widely used) respect shouldn't be acting like this. It's always a shame to see people who have promise and talent show how childish they CAN act. Having his underling (someone who works on his language of no known note) make a smartassed response was in turn also pointless and negative whether he requested/urged it passively or not.
Comment · 14 years ago
This stuff happened over 2 years ago, and what he was referring to was an ANTICIPATED change sir.

Not one he'd run into at the time, since it had yet to be changed to something random and unexpected.

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