Twitter names famed hacker 'Mudge' as head of security

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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