From: "Don A. Bailey" <don.bailey@gmail.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Jim McKie
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:50:27 -0600 [thread overview]
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So sorry to learn this. My favorite memory of jmk, though I never knew him personally, was from 2003, when I was still learning how to engineer and hack operating system kernels. He and I exchanged emails regarding the best way to audit a kernel’s networking stack, as I had found some bugs in the Plan 9 TCP/IP stack that were remotely exploitable. His point was that I was way over thinking how to implement a working product, and I should focus more on being a *good engineer* rather than being a *perfect engineer*, and not worry so much about how perfect every line I wrote was. I’ll never forget how much that blew my mind at the time, an idea so simple, that even in a place as “elite” (to me) as Bell Labs, perfect was the enemy of good, even if innovation was the goal. A lesson I have carried with me from that day, which may have contributed greatly to the success I’ve had since then.
Rest in peace, my friend.
Don A. Bailey
Lab Mouse Security
https://labmou.se/
@InfoSecMouse
> On Jun 24, 2020, at 6:36 PM, Charles Forsyth <charles.forsyth@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I am sorry to say that Jim McKie (jmk) died suddenly on 16 June. https://www.ippolitofuneralhomes.com/obituaries/James-B-McKie?obId=15111702&fbclid=IwAR3d7aHZXEOhYz-ciOrQPh-W1eMw-_8MHiCUdeKOxzLBEI6VGHsSn4aTjdk
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-25 0:35 Charles Forsyth
2020-06-25 0:43 ` [9fans] " Federico Benavento
2020-06-25 0:44 ` Paul Lalonde
2020-06-25 0:45 ` Christopher Nielsen
2020-06-25 1:02 ` andrey mirtchovski
2020-06-25 1:18 ` Coss, Mike (Nokia - US/Murray Hill)
2020-06-25 1:19 ` Dan Cross
2020-06-25 4:37 ` Gorka Guardiola
2020-06-25 4:50 ` Don A. Bailey [this message]
2020-06-25 6:47 ` Gabriel Díaz López de la Llave
2020-06-25 12:18 ` Richard Miller
2020-06-25 12:44 ` enrique.soriano
2020-06-25 13:02 ` Rodolfo García Peñas
2020-06-25 13:40 ` David du Colombier
2020-06-25 16:34 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-06-25 20:46 ` [EXTERNAL] " Williams, Mitch
2020-06-25 17:06 ` Brian L. Stuart
2020-06-25 18:30 ` Dave Lukes
2020-06-26 0:24 ` Anthony Martin
2020-06-26 6:00 ` [9fans] " Sergey Zhilkin
2020-06-26 9:20 ` Lucio De Re
2020-06-26 15:48 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2020-06-27 11:46 ` elbingmiss
2020-07-02 5:45 ` [9fans] " Scott Schwartz
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