3 days ago I received a call from (972) 2840600 & 9722840600 and was pretty sure the caller was a scammer.

Guess it was a bad case of the “Mondays” – cause I went nuts – and called the company (Gulf Coast Western) and went nuts.

Check this out… Gulf Coast Western — the oil drilling company- called who I interviewed with last month – we’re calling to tell me I got the job!

Any advice how to get unfired!!

That is a usually called a “cracker”.

About hacking… well I would just say this:

Enjoy “learning”… when you do it with passion.. that means you’re “hacking”

Bye,
Max

Are you really sure the true meaning of “hacker” ?
Real hackers never claim they are, instead people called them.

As for the “look what I did” part, that’s probably from my mostly-wrong impression that python is more of a command line tool, which I admit isn’t really as true anymore. I was alluding to the ease of setting up a PHP website as opposed to in another language, which is redundant.

Learning to hack is fine, but there are other languages just as good at hacking with just as many resources but that aren’t terrible in every other way. I don’t see how Python lacks a “look what I did” mentality, unless that mentality only comes from copy-pasting really bad code that some other beginner put on his blog. Pretty sure Python has enough resources to go around, too, given that it predates PHP by four years, and it hardly “forces” style on you unless you find it mighty inconvenient to press Tab.

You can find cheap Web hosts that will run your Perl or Ruby or Python or whatever; you just have to spend more than thirty seconds looking. Off the top of my head, nearlyfreespeech has some dozen languages supported and Dreamhost will let you do pretty much whatever you want that doesn’t take their machines down.

And that’s one of the reasons I fully agree that PHP is a good even first language for a hacker: You can do things fast, even with embedding it into otherwise pure HTML page, you can do dirty hacks, even on the commandline if needed. And you also can evolve working with it to doing clean, throught-through, nicely styled, object-orientated, do-everything code.

PHP is good for the whole way from the small, quick and dirty hack up to full-fledged, cleanly coded (web) applications. Only when you come to the limits of interpreted code (memory- and performance-wise), you can get forced to switch to something else (given you’re in web development, partially also in the commandline environment).

The key is not to force style on you but to let it grow wisely and naturally.

The portability of PHP also makes it great, python can run on most desktops fairly easily, but it won’t run on most forms of cheap web hosting. If I throw together, say, a piece of polling software in PHP, put it up on my $3 a month web hosting, and show all my friends, they’ll be able to say “Hey, I like that, let me get a copy to put on my equally cheap hosting.”