Re:Reminder: "Broken gets fixed, but shitty lasts forever"
by jrockway on Wednesday February 16, 2011 @01:35AM
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I agree. Being "a leader" doesn't mean you aren't allowed to have fun anymore.
The blog post reads as, "I have some pet issue that I am not important enough to solve; so someone more important than me should solve my pet issue for me". Well, sorry. The world doesn't work like that.
(Maybe you would become a leader if you didn't spend hours of your day thinking about how one-off scripts could be hacked by a malicious server?)
I think the responses here, and especially this blog post, are completely out of line. Yes, he's a community leader, but he still has the right to write lazy code to solve problems quickly. It's not like he published it as a gem, blogged about it, and tried to convince a bunch of people to use it. It was just a tweet about a fun hack.