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The quality was always terrible, these are ancient bugs that are just being noticed now. Rails is designed with a 'convenience first, then use a couple regexes

The quality was always terrible, these are ancient bugs that are just being noticed now. Rails is designed with a 'convenience first, then use a couple regexes to "secure" it' mentality. Any software designed like that will be full of these sorts of holes.

igravious 14y ago
I've spent the last 10 minutes reading your comment history. You come across as an opinionated argumentative snide jerk. Note: before you take my comment apart and feed it back to me realize that I have no desire in getting into a verbal sparring match with you and won't reply to you. I suggest that you follow the advice, "if you can't think of anything nice or constructive to say, bite your tongue". The irony is not lost on me that in taking you to task for the tone you couch your comments in I am failing to live up to my own advice, but I'll make an exception here.
- tanel 14y ago
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
  - igravious 14y ago
    Indeed, but not quite. Ask yourself if it was my intent to counter the person's claims by attacking the person. No, that was not my intent. I never intended to counter the person's claims. I was explicitly calling the person out based on tone and style of his/her comment and others in his/her comment history. The thought even crossed my mind while carefully drafting the above comment that I ought to preempt the accusation that I was committing this logical fallacy but I decided not to and now I wish the opposite. Anyway, I hope you see the difference?
    - SkyMarshal 14y ago
      Pro-tip: People are going to have strong opinions here. Rebutting their message rather than the delivery ends up rebutting both.
  - myndpage 14y ago
    This is not an Ad Hominem at all..
- shadowmint 14y ago
  The bummer is that 'extreme position' posts on hacker news attract lots of up votes; moderate ones not so much. So it's basically a training system to encourage people to comment like this (remember; you need 500+ karma to down vote, so for many people, you can only ignore or up vote; therefore, all you see for a post is upvotes). :/
- iand 14y ago
  My jerk-ometer is pretty good, but I have to disagree with you here. I read his history too and I don't see jerk behaviour.

igravious 14y ago

I've spent the last 10 minutes reading your comment history. You come across as an opinionated argumentative snide jerk. Note: before you take my comment apart and feed it back to me realize that I have no desire in getting into a verbal sparring match with you and won't reply to you. I suggest that you follow the advice, "if you can't think of anything nice or constructive to say, bite your tongue". The irony is not lost on me that in taking you to task for the tone you couch your comments in I am failing to live up to my own advice, but I'll make an exception here.

tanel 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
- igravious 14y ago
  Indeed, but not quite. Ask yourself if it was my intent to counter the person's claims by attacking the person. No, that was not my intent. I never intended to counter the person's claims. I was explicitly calling the person out based on tone and style of his/her comment and others in his/her comment history. The thought even crossed my mind while carefully drafting the above comment that I ought to preempt the accusation that I was committing this logical fallacy but I decided not to and now I wish the opposite. Anyway, I hope you see the difference?
  - SkyMarshal 14y ago
    Pro-tip: People are going to have strong opinions here. Rebutting their message rather than the delivery ends up rebutting both.
- myndpage 14y ago
  This is not an Ad Hominem at all..
shadowmint 14y ago
The bummer is that 'extreme position' posts on hacker news attract lots of up votes; moderate ones not so much. So it's basically a training system to encourage people to comment like this (remember; you need 500+ karma to down vote, so for many people, you can only ignore or up vote; therefore, all you see for a post is upvotes). :/
iand 14y ago
My jerk-ometer is pretty good, but I have to disagree with you here. I read his history too and I don't see jerk behaviour.