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Congrats on Tarsnap becoming your full time job! When did that happen?

Tarsnap has been what I've been spending most of my time on for a few years (keeping it running is easy; making it better takes time). That comment was referring to the amount of profit it makes (and thus the amount of money I personally make, since for 11 months of the year Tarsnap after-tax profits all end up being paid out to me as dividends) being on par with what I'd earn working elsewhere; and that's relatively recent.

For the lazy, here's the Capsicum project Colin mentioned: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/

Also, for those who don't know, Colin sometimes takes consulting gigs. I worked with him earlier this year; easily the best thousand Canadian dollars I've ever spent.

Colin sometimes takes consulting gigs

Key word being "sometimes". I do consulting more for the exposure to interesting new ideas than for the money, so my availability depends a lot on who is asking and what they're doing.

My interesting idea was being hilariously wrong about the security properties of my original design.

I admit, some of the draw of that gig was my curiosity of "how on earth is what he's trying to do possible?" Alas, it turned out that my original intuition was correct.

> Colin sometimes takes consulting gigs

Knowing this makes me wish I did anything in security interesting enough for him, sadly, I'm just a CRUD dev. :)

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