Nowadays anyone can call himself a "researcher" and give speeches

So it seems. Googling for "Netanel Rubin" does not show any evidence of Perl (or Python for that matter) expertise. At least, I couldn't find any substantial code written by this guy. BTW, that is in stark contrast to Felix von Leitner (Fefe), who clearly is an accomplished programmer with lots of runs on the board. I couldn't find any runs on the board for Netanel and, in his first talk, I'm afraid he didn't score any.

What I found offensive was his crude use of propaganda in the camel images accompanying the slides, and in the talk itself. At the start of the talk, for example, after acknowledging that this is his first talk, he urges the audience to say "F*** Perl". Breathtaking. Did his company really give permission to deliver such a vulgar talk?

Update:

• reddit discussion of Perl Jam talk in which Netanel Rubin replies that he is not a "Pythonista" (I see no evidence that he is an accomplished programmer in any language) and, embarrassingly, continues to display his ignorance of modern Perl, for which he is taken to task as "a complete novice who never even bothered to learn the language, and is instead relying on popular culture definitions of the language they heard from their equally ignorant peers". Other responses: "the idea that you expect foo($scalar, @array) to be called as if @array were an array reference is just nonsense ... that you showed those slides that claimed that that behavior was unexpected is the very definition of a straw man argument" and "Your argument is incoherent, reflects a misunderstanding of the nature of technical debt and the constraints of project maintenance with limited developer time, and is just about valid as an attack on Perl-as-of-2001 but makes no sense as a complaint against Perl-as-of-2014".
• Bugzilla bug report in which Checkpoint are taken to task for disclosing the vulnerability to the media before Bugzilla had a chance to fix it and for exaggerating the severity of this vulnerability.

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