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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
I've been in the hosting industry for some time, and I'm always appalled at how quickly stories like this, regarding hosting providers, escalate. It's such a contrast between startups in this community that make a mistake ("I'm sure they ju
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> I wouldn't want to see comments like the above if I were your investor or your employee. Why? He called you out and he's 100% correct, why would it matter who he is? Personally, I think it speaks to his "personal image" that he doesn'
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Since you keep ignoring my question about licenses, as you have since the very first time I asked it, I am forced to assume your answer.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> The GPL is almost an anti-license, since it exists solely to do the exact opposite of what copyright laws and licenses are intended to do (restrict freedoms). And yet it restricts my freedom to do what I wish with derivatives. Almost
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
That's a poor and incorrect assumption of what I'm arguing. Do you always counter someone's question with an assumption of what they're going to say? I hate people that do that with a fiery passion, particularly when bucketed into a group t
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
> When I buy something, I like to know it's mine, rather than just 'in my possession with permission to use'. What license do you use for software that you write?
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
The split personality in the HN community is interesting. On one hand, you have things like "never let the perfect be the enemy of the good; better to have a product that works than to get everything right". On the other, you have things li
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
rsyslog's documentation is pretty abysmal, so you can't be faulted for giving up and doing something else. It's actually pretty extensive and useful, the documentation is just awful. Since he's hard at work on v7 I had hoped the documentati
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Ah, that makes sense, so you're sending a program and sorta-preview from this custom tool to a fuller production studio and it's remote-driven. That makes more sense. Right on, thanks for answering.
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
I'll take an opportunity to ask you a question. I saw the news the other day that you guys had written a video mixer for Linux, with integrated Chyrons, transitions, and all that. That's great work, but I do have a question about the motiva
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
There's a few parts of that anecdote which confuse me as a pilot. The first one is two vastly different aircraft separated by a slash as if to indicate that they are equivalent. The second is an air crew that completed a flight, while leaki
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
You found troll(1) in the OED. Now find troll(2).
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
The thread in question involved a few broad oversights in a tool, not an immediate disclosure due to a trivial oversight. There's a difference between not generating random numbers correctly and immediately disclosing every AWS key you've b
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
You repeatedly write some form of that assertion (we're two nerds) as if it is supposed to excuse something. I honestly couldn't give a rat's ass regarding who you are. I care about your actions and your actions alone. Stop making excuses!
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Friends are customers, too. One row in your database is a customer. Before ever putting a service up on the public Internet (service defined here as "accepts arbitrary requests" and "delivers arbitrary responses"), I would hope every human
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
Contacted a PR person in between the last thread and this one, I'm guessing? That's a rapid 180. You have a long way to go in my mind, in terms of fixing the initial response. You probably have help now, which is great, but your initial kne
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
He submitted this article after the vulnerability was already fixed. (I grant that the initial comment came before.) I'd be inclined to agree with you, overall, save for a couple mitigating factors in this case: 1) The founder's behavior in
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
"Whoops, we disclosed everybody's AWS credentials. I know! Rather than tell our users, I'll wipe the database and remove all evidence of it ever happening."
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by jspthrowaway 14y ago
That's your response to someone (admittedly, poorly) discovering and reporting a security vulnerability in your application? Telling him to "be nice" then dropping his e-mail and face as some kind of stick-waving, threatening gesture? Congr