From: Seebs <usenet-nospam@...>
Date: 2010-01-27T09:47:01+09:00
Subject: Re: anyone can help?

On 2010-01-26, David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> This is the wrong approach. Start by talking to the kid. Yes, it's harder,
> but if the kid finds out -- and he will -- how will he ever trust his
> parents again?

Yeah.

I wrote a document once about "hiring a hacker" -- using the classic
pre-Hollywood sense.  I get about an email a week from people who want me to
break into stuff for them.  Many of them give me enough information that I
could probably get them in a great deal of trouble.  This amuses me greatly.

But time and time again, the answer is "don't be such an idiot, just talk
to <X>."

> That said, this is also incredibly offtopic. This mailing list is for people 
> who want to talk about the Ruby programming language.

The only topical part I can think of is that, in general, this would be one
of my first choices for places to go if I wanted to ask a question, with the
understanding that if I was trying to solve the wrong problem, people would
tell me that, too.  Ruby seems to attract people who are not very interested
in solving the wrong problem.

-s
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