mylittlepony

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.

Comment · 13 years ago

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.

Comment · 13 years ago

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.

Comment · 13 years ago

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.

Comment · 13 years ago

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