boxy_brown

> Why was this code even necessary

> The answer is: an explicit IETF design choice, that made punycode decoding part of X.509 verification, without even a line of acknowledgement in the Security Considerations.

Can you share some examples?

It's been a rough few weeks for antirez, but I just want to say how much I appreciate his work on Redis and open source in general. We're lucky to have him.

He has announced plans to run for state-wide political office in Massachusetts. We are probably going to hear plenty more about him.

Nothing is being injected. A section of the article deals with politics and Trump explicitly.

The writer is a non-native English speaker.

The article suggests he is not a full-time employee of Facebook.

You are missing an important point: different systems fail in very different ways. The reason why people will generally prefer software over other ways of building things is because the cost of failure is often very low. No one is going to die if a website serves an incorrect image, nor will such a bug require billions of dollars worth of semiconductor inventory to be recalled to repair.

If every software project was run like an avionics project, software would be more reliable and of higher quality. But the world would be worse off; most of the software people use would never come into existence.

The beautiful, cruel wisdom of Ptacek, in haiku:

        Arm amputated? 
        Stop crying and use your brain
        You still have one left