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From: Rich <rich@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:07:09 -0000 (UTC)
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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.  ;)

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.

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