I love you, Hacker News, but you’re toxic
"My dad told me that he wants to dabble in programming, but MySQL isn’t compatible with his laptop. My response? "Yeah there’s no way that’s true. MySQL will work on anything." Instead of taking a look at this laptop and working on the problem with him, I just told him that he's wrong and he doesn't know what he's doing (basically)."<p>I catch myself doing this, without realizing it far too often. It's good to catch yourself and try to change.