You are hopping back and forth between technical issues and personal finance.
In this case they're inextricably linked.:)
If PHP was so awful that I wasn't able to use it to make money, then I'd say you have a point and I should learn another language. But that's not the case.
To be clear, I like PHP. I like it a lot in spite of its quirks and warts and whatever. (I felt the same way about my old 2005 Jeep, but I still drove it for years.)
So yes, I know lots of people hate PHP, and I really don't care; the fact that some people hate it doesn't keep me awake at night.
I find it to be an easy language to work with and one that lets me get the job done. It has its shortcomings but then so does every language. End of story.
Feel free to tell me how awful it is, but honestly, I don't really care. It works perfectly well for what I need to do and that's the bottom line for me.
GP obviously lives in a basement and has never had a girlfriend.
When women shop they don't go to just one store and buy what they need. They go to dozens of stores, buy stuff, then return most of it. Then they go to more stores and buy more stuff.
This is soooooooooo true. Painfully true.
I have heard that in the US that ~70% of all returned merchandise is returned by women. Don't know if it's an accurate number but it sure sounds about right.
I go to SE Asia once or twice a year and buy 10 or 20 t-shirts at $2 to $3 apiece. Same exact shirts you'll find in any major stores in the US, but bought locally a few kilometers from the source factory.
I give some away (they have logos and stuff) but the rest I keep, so I now have a lifetime supply of t-shirts, lol.
On another note, it's an incredible sight to see a couple thousand of the young Asian lady workers all exiting the factory en masse at the end of the day and riding back home on near-identical bikes.
... when a password like "1PaR0fSt1nkYS0cks!" while it'll get a strong rating... isn't strong...
Actually that seems like a fairly decent password. 18 chars long, with numbers, upper- and lower-case letters and a punctuation character.
Yes, it could be better, but it won't be guessed by a brute-force dictionary attack and the length alone is going to defeat a lot of password cracking scripts.
Same here, but I think the advent of self-driving cars will bring it about sooner than we think.
I'd bet that there are hackers rubbing their hands right now in gleeful anticipation of causing a car to veer into oncoming traffic or a light pole or a pedestrian.
Self-driving cars are my guess as to where we'll see the first IoT fatality. And it's likely that we won't even know it was a malicious actor that caused the fatality.
Mark my words- this is only going to get worse and worse and worse, and eventually somebody will die from some shoddy piece-of-shit consumer crap that's been weaponized by some asshole hacker.
What takes 10 minutes to say in voicemail can probably be read in 1 or so, and more easily referred back to
Bingo. I don't want to listen to some idiot rambling on for 10 minutes to make a 30-second point.
Trying to find information in voice mail is a nearly impossible task. Can you imagine having to rummage through 500 voice mails to find the one you needed? To hell with that, send me an email so I can search for what I'm trying to find.
"Barcelona-based filmmaker Philippa Young, for example, relies on WhatsApp's voice notes to communicate with her nomadic yet tight-knit team of 15. She sends audio notes throughout the day that range from just a few seconds in length to 10 minutes."
Fuck that, if she pestered me with endless voice messages I'd hunt her down and clip out her vocal cords. Fuck you and your voice messages, you self-entitled little shit, some of have things to do besides sitting around and listening to your audio laundry list of blather.
Seriously, I'd quit if my boss started doing this kind of crap. EMAIL EXISTS, USE IT.
It doesn't hold true for everyone but most people have a need to be doing something, whether it's done for pay or prestige or out of a sense of altruism or to better mankind, or whatever....but most people aren't happy sitting around doing nothing.
My interpretation was that you are saying PHP is "good" because it made you money, NOT because it's a good language/tool.
Well, you can interpret it however you like. I started off by saying that "PHP is full of warts", but maybe you missed that in your rush to condemn it.
Regardless, whether it's a "good" language or not, it has made me a ton of money over the years, and in that respect I think it's very good.
I also happen to think it's a completely serviceable language (albeit with lots of warts), but feel free to disagree as much as you like. The LAMP stack has allowed me to essentially retire very early, and while we argue about whether or not it's a "good" language, it's busy making my house payment. So by all means, feel free to disagree.
We can even start here: PHP is a terrible, dreadful language with no redeeming qualities, except for thew fact it has allowed me to earn a lot of money and live quite well while breaking no laws and harming no one. But it's a terrible, terrible, AWFUL language and no one should ever use it unless they want to get stuff done and make money. Don't debase yourself and sink to the depths of using PHP unless you want to be like me, living comfortably and having fun, because it's a terrible, terrible language and no one should ever use it. EVER!!!
Please, dear reader, I beg you- learn a more respectable language like Java or Simpleton or Brainfuck so you can hold your head up high in public, and no one will be able to whisper cruel things like "He uses PHP!" as you zoom by them in your Lexus LX570 or Porsche 911.
When you hold a party in your lovely home by the water no one will be able to slander you with vicious rumors like "I heard the sick bastard paid for this place by coding in PHP, can you imagine?" O The Shame!
Okay, your turn to tell me how awful PHP is.:) lol
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You are hopping back and forth between technical issues and personal finance.
In this case they're inextricably linked. :)
If PHP was so awful that I wasn't able to use it to make money, then I'd say you have a point and I should learn another language. But that's not the case.
To be clear, I like PHP. I like it a lot in spite of its quirks and warts and whatever. (I felt the same way about my old 2005 Jeep, but I still drove it for years.)
So yes, I know lots of people hate PHP, and I really don't care; the fact that some people hate it doesn't keep me awake at night.
I find it to be an easy language to work with and one that lets me get the job done. It has its shortcomings but then so does every language. End of story.
Feel free to tell me how awful it is, but honestly, I don't really care. It works perfectly well for what I need to do and that's the bottom line for me.
Topo Gigio!
Oy, I'm old. :(
GP obviously lives in a basement and has never had a girlfriend.
When women shop they don't go to just one store and buy what they need. They go to dozens of stores, buy stuff, then return most of it. Then they go to more stores and buy more stuff.
This is soooooooooo true. Painfully true.
I have heard that in the US that ~70% of all returned merchandise is returned by women. Don't know if it's an accurate number but it sure sounds about right.
I go to SE Asia once or twice a year and buy 10 or 20 t-shirts at $2 to $3 apiece. Same exact shirts you'll find in any major stores in the US, but bought locally a few kilometers from the source factory.
I give some away (they have logos and stuff) but the rest I keep, so I now have a lifetime supply of t-shirts, lol.
On another note, it's an incredible sight to see a couple thousand of the young Asian lady workers all exiting the factory en masse at the end of the day and riding back home on near-identical bikes.
"...credit and debit cards used at those stores during the first six months of 2016 may have been compromised in the breach"
I set fire to your house and burned it to the ground. There may have been some smoke damage.
And ten million hipsters cried out in terror, as if there had been a great disturbance in the supply of flannel lunberjack shirts.
What's worse are the "hint" questions, like "What elementary school did you go to?" or "What city did you live in when you were 10?"
The answers can often be uncovered with a little detective work.
So when they ask me shit like "What elementary school did you go to?", I put something like, "Jm36*gdt22(ILD$".
No amount of detective work is going to "uncover" that.
... when a password like "1PaR0fSt1nkYS0cks!" while it'll get a strong rating... isn't strong...
Actually that seems like a fairly decent password. 18 chars long, with numbers, upper- and lower-case letters and a punctuation character.
Yes, it could be better, but it won't be guessed by a brute-force dictionary attack and the length alone is going to defeat a lot of password cracking scripts.
Not enough IdIoTs yet. It needs to be a bit more widely used before it's a worthwhile attack vector.
Three words: Self-driving cars.
I am surprised it hasn't happened yet.
Same here, but I think the advent of self-driving cars will bring it about sooner than we think.
I'd bet that there are hackers rubbing their hands right now in gleeful anticipation of causing a car to veer into oncoming traffic or a light pole or a pedestrian.
Self-driving cars are my guess as to where we'll see the first IoT fatality. And it's likely that we won't even know it was a malicious actor that caused the fatality.
It even automatically defrosts the windshield if I turn on the rear window defroster. That is, of course, unless I tell it not to.
Yes, but why should you have to tell it not to? Because it's making a decision for you- the wrong decision.
I think you have severe problems with your memory, reading comprehension and with the meaning of common words.
Like some kind of sex-bot/roomba hybrid. Maybe a roomba with blowjob attachment?
You just gave me the GREATEST idea for a Kickstarter.
That's all I want from a "love doll"- one that "loves" me enough to boink my brains out and then climb back into her box.
Which classics?
Anna Karenina, The Odyssey, The Old Man And The Sea, The Brothers Karamazov. Also anything by Beethoven or Schubert.
They can't tell you the details until they come up with a snappy name for the vulnerability.
They already have, it's "IoT".
If it's some piece of consumer-shiny-bling-bullshit and it's internet-enabled, there's your vulnerability.
That's what the IoT is, the Internet of Terrors.
Mark my words- this is only going to get worse and worse and worse, and eventually somebody will die from some shoddy piece-of-shit consumer crap that's been weaponized by some asshole hacker.
What takes 10 minutes to say in voicemail can probably be read in 1 or so, and more easily referred back to
Bingo. I don't want to listen to some idiot rambling on for 10 minutes to make a 30-second point.
Trying to find information in voice mail is a nearly impossible task. Can you imagine having to rummage through 500 voice mails to find the one you needed? To hell with that, send me an email so I can search for what I'm trying to find.
"Barcelona-based filmmaker Philippa Young, for example, relies on WhatsApp's voice notes to communicate with her nomadic yet tight-knit team of 15. She sends audio notes throughout the day that range from just a few seconds in length to 10 minutes."
Fuck that, if she pestered me with endless voice messages I'd hunt her down and clip out her vocal cords. Fuck you and your voice messages, you self-entitled little shit, some of have things to do besides sitting around and listening to your audio laundry list of blather.
Seriously, I'd quit if my boss started doing this kind of crap. EMAIL EXISTS, USE IT.
can we live a happy life with no task at all ?
For most people, no.
It doesn't hold true for everyone but most people have a need to be doing something, whether it's done for pay or prestige or out of a sense of altruism or to better mankind, or whatever....but most people aren't happy sitting around doing nothing.
They're called hobbies. I have many and I enjoy my time off when I get it.
If it's a hobby then it's not a "task" in the classical sense. Or, it may be a "task", but it's one you enjoy and willingly participate in.
"When We're Happy, We Actively Sabotage Our Good Moods With Grim Tasks"
Not me. When I'm happy I wallow in it, and the last thing I'll do is think up some "grim task" that needs to be done.
What a load of horseshit.
Gawker was a shit tabloid rag with the worst of intentions. They ignored a court order and were held to account for it, end of story.
A meaning is not a quote. Without a quote, there can be no misquote.
Oh, so now you're even denying that? You just admitted to it, and now you're denying it? You sound more and more like Donald Trump every second.
My interpretation was that you are saying PHP is "good" because it made you money, NOT because it's a good language/tool.
Well, you can interpret it however you like. I started off by saying that "PHP is full of warts", but maybe you missed that in your rush to condemn it.
Regardless, whether it's a "good" language or not, it has made me a ton of money over the years, and in that respect I think it's very good.
I also happen to think it's a completely serviceable language (albeit with lots of warts), but feel free to disagree as much as you like. The LAMP stack has allowed me to essentially retire very early, and while we argue about whether or not it's a "good" language, it's busy making my house payment. So by all means, feel free to disagree.
We can even start here: PHP is a terrible, dreadful language with no redeeming qualities, except for thew fact it has allowed me to earn a lot of money and live quite well while breaking no laws and harming no one. But it's a terrible, terrible, AWFUL language and no one should ever use it unless they want to get stuff done and make money. Don't debase yourself and sink to the depths of using PHP unless you want to be like me, living comfortably and having fun, because it's a terrible, terrible language and no one should ever use it. EVER!!!
Please, dear reader, I beg you- learn a more respectable language like Java or Simpleton or Brainfuck so you can hold your head up high in public, and no one will be able to whisper cruel things like "He uses PHP!" as you zoom by them in your Lexus LX570 or Porsche 911.
When you hold a party in your lovely home by the water no one will be able to slander you with vicious rumors like "I heard the sick bastard paid for this place by coding in PHP, can you imagine?" O The Shame!
Okay, your turn to tell me how awful PHP is. :) lol