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by burke 5599 days ago
http://twitter.com/#!/tenderlove/status/37665907648110592

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.

2 comments

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?)

It's also a little cowardly to write a post like this and then disable comments on it.