*(Did I mention 100 kloc of Perl?)* Hey, you got off easy. Just imagine how much...

pasbesoin · on Dec 7, 2009

Or it might have been Klingon.

(Lest I be considered entirely off topic: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/560 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=88704 and search "klingon". Better the salariman, than Conway in a playful mood.)

patio11 · on Dec 7, 2009

70 hour workweeks, 3 hour daily commutes, salary below the median for a starting graduate from my alma mater, and debugging code written in India based on instructions translated by Babelfish: all of these I will endure without complaint. But I will not blackbox analyze Perl one-liners. That is just abusive.

tptacek · on Dec 7, 2009

... why DO you work 70 hour workweeks with 3 hour commutes for below-market wages? "Because, Japan"?

mahmud · on Dec 7, 2009

This happened "once upon a time", he might have done it while learning the ropes and picking up the language.

skywalker · on Dec 7, 2009

Yes. When I write anything in Perl I frequently try to compact what would be several lines in just a few obscure expressions.

But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to understand a large code base you probably aren't familiar with and its security implications?

cperciva · on Dec 7, 2009

But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to understand a large code base you probably aren't familiar with and its security implications?

I ask someone to explain it to me.

Being FreeBSD Security Officer, I have an uncommon luxury: I have about 200 highly qualified developers available who will stop what they're doing and help me out if I say "so, umm, I sort of need to understand how this code works...".