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Re:Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Openi... by brookst on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:01AM (#48906190)
Honest question: is there anyone truly good at security who never made a potentially-disastrous dogfooding mistake while learning?

Not to decent mistakes or amateur brain surgery, but there has to be some level of risk tolerance among tinkerers.

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Re:Building and Shipping Mac and iOS Apps Without Ever Openi... by DrewADesign on Tuesday July 14, 2026 @09:59AM (#48907007)
Developing software that has the sole purpose of preventing something dangerous from happening is exactly when people should strive to be engineers, not tinkerers. Beginners often don’t know the difference.
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