You know, if you keep doing ridiculous shit long enough (and getting away with it), eventually you can do something super ridiculous and send out the PR release on April 1. Everyone will think it's a joke.

What I find interesting is the opacity of this submission.

I read the summary, and based solely on how the summary is written, it comes off as a plausible story. I went to the comments and saw folks talking about AFD jokes, and then I thought, this was a joke? How is it funny?

Then, of course, I clicked a couple links and saw the reference and at this point ... and here's the interesting bit ... it actually got less funny.

Amazingly, when analyzed by an advanced comedic interpreter, this comment is scored as the funniest of the day.

Breakthrough? I remember using various commercial software that implemented python based scripting tools going back to the early-mid 90's.

I'm reading the description over and over, and I have absolutely no idea how this occurred. So there's an "autofill" check box that wasn't checked. How does this end up disclosing all of this information in the email?

I am forced to use Outlook for work and as a result I use it as minimally as possible. For some reason I still have to spend several seconds searching for the awkwardly placed "Send" button every time I need it. Forgive my lack of experience using an awful email client.

This is the fundamental issue I see with Christians and homosexuality. Christians make statements as you have, saying things like "hate the sin, love the sinner" to come across as less of an asshole. When it comes down to it, you view homosexuality as a life choice. Whether this is true or not is irrelevant to my point.

Because you view it as a life choice, the good Christian feels no guilt for calling someone an "abomination". It's their choice to be that way, you say, so it's their fault for being sinners.

At this point, I just can't see this as 100% true. I don't know what causes every homosexual to be a homosexual. I tangentially care about it, as I think it's an interesting subject from a biological standpoint, but what "caused" any given person to be homosexual is none of my fucking business just like what "caused" someone to have freckles and pale skin is none of my business. I am not here to play God or assume those powers. I am not here to evangelize my superiority over other people because they were born a certain way.

Christians need to accept that homosexuality isn't black and white a lifestyle choice and that the Bible's lessons on it are based on archaic knowledge of biological systems.

So you're saying we will be come a more educated society as a result? I jest, of course, but it's an interesting thought. Forcing people to retrain to another field will certainly broaden their knowledge of the world, or at least motivate people to have that broad array of knowledge in the first place.

This is pretty much what I do. I personally don't like all the generic words, and instead use variations of a similar pattern. I have several main patterns that I can determine which one to use based on a rule I know that takes the site's name into account. This is my base password.

Then I take the site's name and apply another rule to it. This becomes my salt.

Together they become a very complex password that is unique for each site and yet very easy for me to remember. An example (of course not close to what I use, but you get the idea) for Slashdot would be:

Slashdot.org - TLD is org so we use Gro.dotSlash as the hash + 19 (slashdot begins w/S, the 19th letter) + someone I love's DOB 9-18-80, so the full password is Gro.dotSlash1991880?

And CERN? Doesn't it make sense that every black hole in the universe at one time was a really tiny black hole? Is it a good idea to just start making a bunch of those?

In fairness to the GP, high school biology is pretty much the worst fucking class ever.

We had to dissect a fucking shark. It was awful. I can still smell it. The poor souls at the bench next to us had a frozen cat in a bag whose face looked like Scratchy got a rear end stuffed full of cocaine.

I'll take my D+ and be on my merry way, thank you.

Why are you not using Zend OPCache? Let's go, time to migrate beyond 5.3.

I think I've discovered your problem. It seems that the code you write serves no purpose.

If your goal is to write code that serves no purpose, PHP is not for you. You might prefer KAREL.

I have worked extensively with both.

Expression Engine is just a bunch of ... huh?? It's not bad, but anything other than what they give you can be a pain in the ass. CI in general was always sorta good but shoulda been better.

Magento has clearly been something that redefined PHP applications. The 1.x branch is going to go down as some of the least maintainable software ever written, but it was bad in a very productive way. 2.x (which you'll probably be seeing in a /. ad in the next few weeks before the conference) has been thoroughly refactored and presents plenty of great new maintainability features.

On top of all that, the Magento core is actually very secure. There have been a few security patches, and of course warnings about third-party extensions, but the core itself has little to no record of massive vulnerability.