Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

In article <vpq63t$36lja$2@dont-email.me>, Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:

D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

On Wed, 26 Feb 2025, Scott Dorsey wrote:

We also have a bunch of IT programs which are really business school
programs with some computing added.  I think those are pretty much
worthless, but they get a lot of students.

 
I think maybe those programs try to sell that you can get a nice
FAANG job with 300k starting salary with very little effort.  ;)

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Those are also the same "puppy farms" that curn out developers who only
know how to string together calling already written libraries to do
various tasks.

This is true...BUT those developers are getting highly-paid jobs stringing
together library calls that they don't understand.  Just like they were
promised.  And then WE have to deal with the issues their code creates.

But ask them to do something for which they can't find an already
created library, and they are hopelessly lost.

I was told by an interviewee that it is much faster to do a sort in
Java than C because in Java it only takes one line of code whereas in
C it takes many lines of code.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."