A Hacker's Lament: Anonymous Posting

30 June, 2005

Anonymous Posting

Various commenters have asked, some more politely than others, why I post anonymously.

There are 6 billion people in the world, all of them infuriated by something different, all of whom are potential employers/clients. It is not within my numerical abilities to enumerate the number of possible post subjects, but I will take it as given that it is extremely easy to inadvertently infuriate the future source of my livelihood.

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