0xDOOD

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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
That's true. There are a ton of features in modern PHP which address a lot of the common criticisms brought against it. Doing a proper comparison with other languages (framework to framework, not framework to language) I think PHP meas
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
>The language seems to encourage poor practices like building query strings directly from remote input without the use of a true query builder. I won't entirely disagree with you on this, because there is still a ton of that code ou
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
No, the buying drugs part is what's 'wrong,' if you consider breaking the law to be a bad thing. But you're right to point out that, in sheer usage, Bitcoin really has nothing on the USD when it comes to buying drugs. St
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
So HN has gone from seeing Google's name on a PRISM slide, to assuming it's entirely an NSA outfit? Apple was on one of those slides. I suppose they're an NSA front organization as well?
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
>What's wrong with people using BTC to buy drugs? Other than it being illegal? Nothing.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
Do regulations really exist to prevent crime, or to threaten punishment when it occurs? Arguably, neither a free market or a regulated market can prevent any criminal activity.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
I can guarantee there are at least a dozen potential startups in this idea alone. Imagine some version of Linkedin or OKCupid, or even some general purpose scraper that correlates identities and social media accounts through facial recognit
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
>while covert methods of recording are not difficult but rarely worried about. Unless you're a woman who's ever worn a skirt in public, gone to a gym, or used the changing room in a store.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
Well, yes. But typically, the sort of people who blithely compare the US to a police state do so by invoking the Nazis. I wasn't going to credit such arguments with that much subtlety or self-awareness, since they seem to come from a s
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
Right. Because no intelligent, technically competent person has ever had a reasonable criticism to make about Glass, or the track record of the company making it, in regards to privacy and participation with NSA surveillance, or of the pote
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
To be fair, unless you're over 60, you probably don't know how it looks, you only know what you've been told, or what you've led yourself to believe.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
If you want to, yes. If you don't, I feel sorry for whoever has to maintain your code.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
So can variable and function names, but comments are easier to update.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
>What if Ensure had a cool name and didn't carry connotations of age and disease? "Soylent" carries connotations of being made of the ground up corpses of the poor, so... > What if it was easy to flavour and make delici
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
Now please demonstrate how Soylent is as great a leap forward from existing nutritional shakes as you infer Google was from Altavista. Ridiculing an argument is not the same as countering it.
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by 0xDOOD 12y ago
Are Christians even polytheists? They would emphatically say no, but the Trinity suggests otherwise. Three distinct entities, with distinct personalities, goals and natures: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. The Son forgives easily, the Father h