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Comment Cui Bono (Score 2) 3

it feels like we have collective amnesia. Now we're in the sixth or eighth cycle of this — and shouldn't we be asking questions

In the sixth or eighth cycle, it's not amnesia, it's [bureaucrats|politicians|administrators|someoneWithPower] benefiting in some way.

Sometimes these schools actually get grant money, and then the benefit is obvious. I assume that's not always the case, though.

Comment Re: Nothing of value was added (Score 0) 155

This is only really a useful observation if you can tell me ahead of time which developers are competent and which ones are incompetent.

If you are hiring a developer your chances of finding one who is not incompetent is vanishingly small. The correct approach is to train them to be competent, and set standards. This should begin with requiring the bug tracker to be emptied out (or decreasing bug count, if the total number is currently overwhelmingly large), and there are plenty of online and in-person resources for training developers to learn how to write secure code.

and use tools like memory-safe languages to mitigate that risk.

Security vulnerabilities happen in every language. Anyone who thinks the language will make them safe is an idiot. What I mean is, you are an idiot, cmseagle 1195671.

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