I'm waiting for Egor to spend some time with nodejs ... would like to see what he finds
Commit that changed my life
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Re: Commit that changed my life
#12Ironically, people said he should have handled the commit differently, and perhaps he should have.
But here we are talking about him 1 year later. I think he probably shouldn't have done it, but on which side of the pg/YC line of creative subversion did his stunt actually fall?
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#13How interesting he ended up in Mui Ne in Vietnam - it's one of the places I've been considering for a quit-your-job-and-focus-on-launching spot.
Mui Ne is a very small coastal town around 200KM East of Ho Chi Minh city. Although tiny, constant off-shore winds has increasingly made it the kite-surfing capital of SE Asia. Living expenses are cheap, and I've calculated a pretty comfortable lifestyle for USD1,200 pm (YMMV).
His post is somewhat testament to a usable internet connection.
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#14What's the backstory on this?
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#15In my impetuous 20s I did something similar. I was rather ... well, rude, really in pointing out a major security flaw on the forums of one of the more famous tech sites. Things devolved from there and I ended up being banned, though they did fix the problem rapidly even so. Since then I've learned the value of tact.
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#16Ironically, people said he should have handled the commit differently, and perhaps he should have. But here we are talking about him 1 year later. I think he probably shouldn't have done it, but on which side of the pg/YC line of creative subversion did his stunt actually fall?
Well let's be fair, we're talking about him because he didn't rest on his laurels, he's been out there doing more and more.
Personally I thought it was hilarious, you can hardly be more gentle in the process of 0wning a system like that and as I recall he did try to warn them beforehand.
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#17What's the backstory on this?
He discovered a major vulnerability in github and pointed it out by making a commit to the rails master repository (which has rather obvious serious repercussions from a security standpoint).
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#18How interesting he ended up in Mui Ne in Vietnam - it's one of the places I've been considering for a quit-your-job-and-focus-on-launching spot. Mui Ne is a very small coastal town around 200KM East of Ho Chi Minh city. Although tiny, constant off-shore winds has increasingly made it the kite-surfing capital of SE Asia. Living expenses are cheap, and I've calculated a pretty comfortable lifestyle for USD1,200 pm (YMM…
mui ne is not so cheap because of tons of russian tourists coming. I used to spend $2k/month here.
but my apart is in the middle of it and it was winter (high season). Internet is pretty decent too!
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#19In my impetuous 20s I did something similar. I was rather ... well, rude, really in pointing out a major security flaw on the forums of one of the more famous tech sites. Things devolved from there and I ended up being banned, though they did fix the problem rapidly even so. Since then I've learned the value of tact.
I agree about responsible disclosure but that problem had many facets, and I was rather trying to point out rails problem, sadly, using github hole.
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#20I imagine the Internet will be kind and you'll go on to do great things.
We've all done things we regret and deserve apologies. It's not the mistake that defines you but how you respond afterwards.