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From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:05:27 -0500 (EST)
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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.  ;)
>
>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
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."