Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by jacobsenscott on Monday November 16, 2020 @08:16PM (#25119261)

There's really no reason to think the person turning the bolt knows what size the bolt needs to be. It isn't insulting to the employee, it just isn't there job. In the same way a web dev doesn't know how docker works, or how their OS's memory allocate works, or how a C programmer doesn't know how the hardware works, or how an EE can't write readable code to save their life.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by reificator on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:26PM (#25119990)

> In the same way a web dev doesn't know how docker works

Reductively it's CoW snapshots + chroot.

Guess I need to find a new job.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by jacobsenscott on Friday November 20, 2020 @12:30AM (#25157573)

Containers and a layered file system is closer to the mark

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by jhardy54 on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:39PM (#25120049)

f u l l s t a c k

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by jhardy54 on Monday November 16, 2020 @10:38PM (#25120044)

Two weeks ago I was writing a UI in React. Last week I was writing a Dockerfile. This week I'm building a circuit with a microcontroller.

People don't have to hyper-specialize to one specific role.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by dane-pgp on Monday November 16, 2020 @11:27PM (#25120260)

Weird flex, but okay.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by aurbano on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @06:41AM (#25122584)

How's that weird? It is perfect anecdotal counter-evidence to the claim it's responding to.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by dane-pgp on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @08:19AM (#25123385)

I interpreted the original claim as being:

> There's really no reason to think the person turning the bolt necessarily knows what size the bolt needs to be.

and also steel-manned the final sentence like this:

> In the same way a web dev doesn't need to know how docker works

As such, the (claimed) existence of one person who regularly uses very different skills doesn't disprove what I think jacobsenscott was trying to say.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by jhardy54 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:43AM (#25151286)

Sure, but there's no reason to believe the person turning the bolt necessarily doesn't know what size it needs to be.

Example using the same logic as the post we're discussing: Someone flips a coin in another room. It doesn't necessarily have to be heads, so we should assume it's tails.

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Re:Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security by hajimemash on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @03:18AM (#25121289)

I thought this was cool.

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