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“Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.”
“The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.”
“This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named.”
“I've never used Sybase in my life. How would I make an intelligent decision about this versus that with a Sybase extension?”
“If you want to build an open source project, you can't let your ego stand in the way. You can't rewrite everybody's patches, you can't second-guess everybody, and you have to give people equal control.”
“When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards.”
“I'm OK with procedural code, and the web is a top-down type of problem. It makes sense to me that you have HTML, you spit out a bunch of HTML, then you call a function to do something and then call another function.”