mcmillen

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   by mcmillen 5y ago

   Hi! I'm the author of the Perl paint-splatter paper. "That lady" is Adrienne Porter Felt, who started as an engineer working on Google Chrome security a decade or so ago, and is now a Director of Engineering who manages a siz
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   by mcmillen 7y ago

   I'm one of the three original co-authors. It was written in early October 2011, just a few days before it was first posted on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3099979 I'm glad it's stood the test of ~
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   by mcmillen 14y ago

   If you've been running a 1997-era Perl app unmodified --including the operating system of the machine it's running on, and security patches to Perl in the mean time -- you are so owned and I really hope you're not storing any important da
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   Why your new programming language won't work(colinm.org)

   311 points by mcmillen 15y ago|64 comments