Actually the NSA's charter is secret, so you have no idea what it precludes them from doing.

It's critical, too. When you learn the low-level stuff, you develop a more intuitive sense of algorithms. Or you understand why "equality" becomes a contextual problem when dealing with reference objects. And dealing with character buffers and malloc calls in C gives you a better insight into why strings are immutable in Java, Python, .NET, others.

But when you've never had to think about how the code is represented at a lower level, well that's when you get the somebody writing horror shows like:

public static class Logger
{
        string log;

        public void AddToLog(string newEntry)
        {
                log = log + newEntry;
        }
}

Just fake it man. You'll blend right in.

Yeah, motherfucker, I had the 80 column text card in my Apple IIe and a 1200 baud modem. I was dying of cholera and retrieving lost oxen before these kids were born.

Somebody should have told them what a bad idea it is to involve oneself in unethical or immoral, that is to say, "messy," dealings in that state.

"Oh puhhhhlease Brer Islamofascist, whutEVAH yew dew, don't crash our Texas prophet drawing contest!"

Way to ruin the circlejerk.

And your transistors were invented by a eugenicist. You're using a computer. Why do you hate black people?

Why not all three?

To be fair, the boogeyman is scary as shit, and I fully support the War on The Boogeyman. Every American deserves to be safe from what's under their bed and/or in their closet, and blankets can't protect you all the time.

See, and that's why all the good drug-dealing jobs go to the illegals. Americans just think some jobs are beneath them. Tsk, tsk.

(good luck on your job hunt, though).

That was fun to read. Patronizing, but fun.

I hate how much I like Visual Studio and C# in general.

Only because all their greenhouses fled here.

Yeah, but the request for bids specifically required the organization have 8 years of experience with Microsoft Office 2010, and they couldn't find any American companies that did.