[Tutor] role playing game - help needed

David Hutto smokefloat at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 20:42:06 CET 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 2:16 PM, David Hutto <smokefloat at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> David Hutto wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 12/07/10 23:37, Robert Sjöblom wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I've been told to use input() if I know that I'll only get integers,
>>>>> and raw_input() for "everything."
>>>>
>>>> That is a bad piece of advice. You should only use input() when you can
>>>> fully trust whoever doing the input (i.e. you).
>>>
>>> Who uses the crap we, as noobies produce? It's pie in the sky
>>> mentality. We design it because WE want it and WE(individually) use
>>> it.
>>
>> Do you want to learn good habits or learn bad habits? I think we've seen
>> plenty of evidence on this mailing list that you have little interest in
>> learning good habits, but actively defend your right learn bad habits.
>
> You define a good habit as making the code impossible for someone just
> learning to use,
> and you call my habits bad.. I recall you making a habit of being an
> asshole(pystats should ring a bell, thanks for giving me the credit
> for inspiration...bitch)
>
>
>
>>
>> There are plenty of people who do the same. They're harmless and even
>> pathetically amusing as newbies,

Said the pathetically amusing pro.

 and then they get a job working as a
>> professional programmer, and end up writing crappy, bug-addled code filled

As your ignorant ass did when you first started(maybe no email
evidence, but just an educated guess)

>> with the sort of n00b errors that we've been warning about. Bug-addled code
>> with *real* consequences.
>
> Yeah, we call that YOUR mistakes being pointed out later in life due
> to experience.
> 20/20 hindsight is great ain't it poindexter?
>
>>
>> Command injection bugs are hugely common in the real world. At least four of
>> the 25 most common security bugs in *professional* software are in my
>> opinion varieties of the command injection flaw, and one of those is the
>> SECOND most common flaw:
>>
>> SQL injection attack #2 most common
>> Unrestricted upload of dangerous files #8 most common
>> OS command injection #9 most common
>> PHP file inclusion attack #13 most common
>
> Injection is only relevant in non-personal code.
>
>
>>
>> http://cwe.mitre.org/top25/
>>
>> OS command injection is *exactly* the sort of thing we're warning about.
>>
>> Feel free to continue learning bad habits, but please stop trying to
>> encourage others to do the same.
>
> I didn't encourage a bad habit, I encouraged development of a problem
> defined by the client and a solution developed byu the programmer.
>
> The only bad habit around here, is your condescending nature.
>
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Steven
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And if you do look at the emails, yes i was hostile at the
beginning(I've learned to ignore bitches like you), because of
attitudes like yours. And if you also look, everytime I tried to help
point a fellow noob in the right direction, you came in and said how
ignorant I was for trying to help(thanks alot, from them and me).


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