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Re:Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” i... by Aeolun on Thursday March 28, 2019 @09:05AM (#19511764)
If you answer with the existential sigh, you’ve had at least 20 conversations with a similar outcome before. Nobody arrives at a new company that jaded.
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Re:Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” i... by skrebbel on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:17PM (#19513641)
I see your point and I suspect that that's what the author meant.

At the same time, I know lots of, well, arrogant nerds who get into "existential sigh" mode as soon as someone with less technical skill than them says something stupid. That's more how I read it.

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Re:Cisco Fixes RV320/RV325 Vulnerability by Banning “curl” i... by Aeolun on Thursday March 28, 2019 @08:40PM (#19518098)
Ah, yes, I see how that is another valid interpretation.

I guess for me the word existential is a bit different. For an arrogant developer it would have been something like ‘long-suffering sigh’.

Unless, I guess, you feel you are so smart that your entire life is defined by interacting with morons :P

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