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> RYO is the best way to learn, if you have the time to learn The problem is that nowadays, people roll their own solution, don’t take the time to learn (somew
by Someone 3mo ago
> RYO is the best way to learn, if you have the time to learn
The problem is that nowadays, people roll their own solution, don’t take the time to learn (somewhat understandably, given the complexity of today’s stuff. You simply cannot learn all details about your hardware, OS, and third-party libraries anymore) but immediately deploy things in production.
Eating your own dog food can be good, but for security related stuff, it can easily be disastrous.
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- brookst 3mo agoHonest question: is there anyone truly good at security who never made a potentially-disastrous dogfooding mistake while learning? Not to decent mistakes or amateur brain surgery, but there has to be some level of risk tolerance among tinkerers.
- DrewADesign 3mo agoDeveloping software that has the sole purpose of preventing something dangerous from happening is exactly when people should strive to be engineers, not tinkerers. Beginners often don’t know the difference.