> It's a dumb post, to the point I think it must be a deliberate troll.
Lol, I'd like to send this to DJ Bernstein, let him know that random Internet commenter thinks that one of his most well-known essays "must be a deliberate troll." Glad HN doesn't support emojis, not enough facepalms it the world for this one.
For example his Qmail was conceptually a very well designed email server but the email standards kept evolving and I'm fairly sure at some point he just said "Qmail is feature complete and secure, no more new features and patches". Like, what? It's networked software, that's not how any of this works.
I'm not saying he's right in all areas, and while it's certainly fine to disagree with his viewpoint, saying his essay "must be a deliberate troll" is laughable nonsense, especially since summarizing "my new protocol would allow computers that already have public IPv4 addresses to talk to each other" is a silly mischaracterization of what djb actually said.
Lol, I'd like to send this to DJ Bernstein, let him know that random Internet commenter thinks that one of his most well-known essays "must be a deliberate troll." Glad HN doesn't support emojis, not enough facepalms it the world for this one.