From: Jim B.
To: matthew@dempsky.org
Subject: Flashcrash Shennannigans
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:30:57 -0800

Dear Matthew,

My instance of Google Chrome crashed in just the way you intended with 
your malicious web page.  Worse yet, you then claimed to "not give a 
damn anymore."  What crap, sir.  I sincerely hope that I have not been 
too forward with you.

It's okay to give a damn when you're trying to be professional and, to 
do a good job.  That said, it's normal for complicated software/firmware 
systems to have bugs, for shit's sake.  You'd have to be new to coding 
or worse to not understand this.

My background is in the Semi industry; ICs, MEMS, etc.  All of the 
systems we use are fairly complex and none are perfect.  I've reported 
bugs that were either not fixed, got fixed years later and created more 
bugs, or were declared not bugs even though they caused crashes.  Some 
bugs actually got fixed expeditiously.  I've even provided patches to 
the vendors only to see them not implemented in the face of a corporate 
strategy that made little sense to me.

Anyway:  Buck-up man and take responsibility for your feelings, and then 
stop posting malicious web pages.

Cheers,

Jim