The Setup: Brad Fitzpatrick

brad.fitzpatrick.usesthis.com

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I wonder if his garage RAID has drunken-girl-at-party protection now. (He had a party in ~2006 where a drunken friend (female, startup founder herself) started pulling drive trays out of the RAID because it made the lights blink more interestingly.)

Someone asked on LJ "where can I find someone who is an expert at both file system recovery and body disposal" -- Hans Reiser being the obvious answer. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser)

So Ryan, when do we get to see your usesthis.com interview? That'd be so much more interesting (to the average HNer) than some froofy font designer.

Context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Lackey

Ryan does all his hacking on an offshore defense platform, obviously.

(What froofy font designer are you referring to?)

This reminds me, I should get to my usesthis interview. /lazy

I hear he's locked in a bank vault underneath NORAD inside Cheyenne Mountain.

You'd be another good hacker to spotlight. Maybe HN needs its own usesthis segments.

I've kinda wanted to do a 360" of my home office, but I think I mostly just do Starcraft there.

I think someone already had a go at doing that, but be my guest! The site's source is up on Github etc.

Yes. Yes you should. :p

I'm comparatively boring now -- spent 2004-2010 in Iraq/Afghanistan/Africa/Asia, and then started working on a security startup in the Bay Area in 2011.

I'm thinking about renting an office on Blueseed (if they have something ready in the next couple years).

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