The sad thing about the author's core anecdote is that he doesn't even understand what about his actions made him a failure. (He alludes to it at the end.) If y

The sad thing about the author's core anecdote is that he doesn't even understand what about his actions made him a failure. (He alludes to it at the end.) If your app/server is vulnerable to a single person taking it down with no recourse to where you "felt the grim reaper clasp [your] neck," then you have built a house of cards unable to withstand a gentle breeze. The issue isn't that your trust or lack of vetting, it's your dependency on others to build your idea; You're an idea person. It's true, he has no one to blame but himself, but not for trusting a stranger, but for want of software deployment skill.