Let me get you a band-aid so your heart doesn't bleed out.

This makes no logical sense.

The causal relationship you imply here doesn't exist. It isn't inequality that's at fault, its these lads' greed coupled with lack of morals. I'm not tempted into crime where I see a Ferrari on the street -- and I would guess that the same is true for most folks.

Email it to yourself. Durrrrrr.

It's a failure of management; I don't think his reaction can be attributed to ungratefulness. If management were clever, they would have said "If this project goes through, you all get $DOLLAR bonuses. If it fails, you get nothing." You gotta give folks a carrot, or they react like the OP.

torrent of orgasms

heading to thepiratebay brb

Right, I wondered myself why there was no validate_key_is_valid() function, or even a simple cast for that matter. $key = (string)$key.

On the other hand, this isn't exactly PHP's fault (or MySQL's, for that matter). The query:

$user = $wpdb->get_row($wpdb->prepare("SELECT * FROM $wpdb->users WHERE user_activation_key = %s", $key));

They're selecting a row (the user) by a column (user_activation_key) that can be blank. Not NULL but literally an empty string. Bad.

Right, exactly. I think the GP is (perhaps unintentionally) equivocating "sacrifice". In my world -- I'm getting married next month -- "sacrifice" means logging off of WoW in the middle of a raid because my fiancee wants something done, telling the office "No, I can't work those overtime hours" (and losing out on OT pay) so I can spend time with her, cleaning the house up before she gets home even though I -hate- doing it and couldn't care less about the mess... "Sacrifice" isn't just jumping in front of a bullet or dying on a cross; the times when you put her needs and desires ahead of your own are also sacrifice. You're sacrificing your own selfish wants for your spouse's.

It sounds like the GP is blindly following the I CAN DO EERRRRVRYTHING MYSELF AND I DON'T NEED ANYONE attitude of extreme feminism.

I lol because you're making the same type of generalization that you're looking down your nose upon.

Too late to be seen, but I just noticed the other day that all it takes to transfer money online from my bank account to another account at the same bank is the pin number and the online login for my account. Granted, if a thief had my online login, there's whole other mess happening, but holy crap.

The hard part is getting world where there can be many "heroes"

Right, that's the logical end of what I said above.

It's simple -- everyone wants to be Cpt. Kirk, and nobody wants to be Ensign Ricky. How many starship captains can one MMO really have?

Alternately, everyone wants to be a Jedi and nobody wants to be a blaster-wielding doofus.

The success of MMOs is about enabling the player to wield ridiculous amounts of power and have obsessive-compulsive levels of control over their character. I do not believe this is an impossible task for a Sci-Fi MMO to achieve, it just hasn't been done really well yet. The Fantasy genre lends itself much more naturally to this type of thing.

I'm one of the core engineers for a web shop and this is what I (along with the team I'm with for whatever project I'm on) do basically every day. Maybe it's because we're a small shop (in the grand scheme... we're one of the largest for our niche) or because the projects are small (usually 10 coders), but this is a skill that my boss drilled into me from my first day on the job... it's the difference between an engineer and a consultant. I don't think you can reasonably expect most engineers to be both "in it" and "on it", which is the perspective shift needed to do this kind of analysis effectively. Many can, but most can't. That's ok, just make sure to hang on tight to the ones who can! *ahem*

Lawyers are like leeches, they live off of feeding, and in this case, they feed off of money.

Unlike us regular folk, who have no need for food. . .