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What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup

www.kalzumeus.com

Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. I’m sorry, you’ve been misinformed.

Security 101
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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. Does your productuse XML? ) Basically, a VC is a source ofmoney. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did. And as you go downthe food chain the VCs get rapidly dumber.

Startup 105
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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You need to hear this from someone who has used.Net extensively, and then happily walked away from it to go open source: You are a wanker. And before you say.net is only for windows, checkout https://github.com/mono , it’s not an open source application. It’s an *freaking open source*.net

Java 107