Surely Author and Committer are more closely equivalent to From and Sender respectively, or perhaps From and Approved?
I think a world in which unskilled people do devastating things because the bar has been lowered for being able to write software arrived when people started doing security-critical stuff in PHP. Github for lesbians AOLers would merely be another manifestation of the problem. )-8
Imagine if we used Usenet posts to build a product!
If we depended on the quality of posts we would have solved the problem of restricting who can make changes to a newsthread. We never did and so the signal to noice ratio decayed dramatically in the early 1990s. Just one difference I guess.
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I think a world in which unskilled people do devastating things because the bar has been lowered for being able to write software arrived when people started doing security-critical stuff in PHP. Github for
lesbiansAOLers would merely be another manifestation of the problem. )-8Even crossed out, what on earth have lesbians got to do with any of this?!
eta: and it was only three months ago, at least if the HTTP last-modified date on the image can be trusted. My mind is going, Dave.