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

Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:

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.

Sad but true.  I've seen the direct result of that at $job.  And the
time (i.e.  cost) "we" spend finding and cleaning up the problems far
outstrips the cost of a better dev. who knew what they were actually
doing being paid more up front to write the code correctly from the
start.

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.

Ugh....  Complete misunderstanding of the intended meaning of 'faster'
by that one there.

Hopefully that one got passed over....