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doesn't google employ the elite of world programming? how can such stuff even happen? honest question.
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No, Google employs far too many developers for the median to be close to 'elite'. I'm sure there are elite teams at Google, but I very much doubt the average Googler is, and that's probably been the case for a decade at this point. The famous Rob Pike quote sums it up quite well: > The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probab…
I think Rob Pike's commentary on Go is why I decided to go into research. Google hires kilotons of developers and pays them gigadollars every year, then makes them work in dumbed-down languages because they can't be trusted with power tools. How has our industry gone so far astray that we pay people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year when they can't even understand generics? In what universe does it make sense t…
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No, Google employs far too many developers for the median to be close to 'elite'. I'm sure there are elite teams at Google, but I very much doubt the average Googler is, and that's probably been the case for a decade at this point. The famous Rob Pike quote sums it up quite well: > The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probab…
I think Rob Pike's commentary on Go is why I decided to go into research. Google hires kilotons of developers and pays them gigadollars every year, then makes them work in dumbed-down languages because they can't be trusted with power tools. How has our industry gone so far astray that we pay people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year when they can't even understand generics? In what universe does it make sense t…
Is this really true? We learned about generics in college so I assumed that everyone knew it (especially if they work at Google).
doesn't google employ the elite of world programming? how can such stuff even happen? honest question.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, Google employs far too many developers for the median to be close to 'elite'. I'm sure there are elite teams at Google, but I very much doubt the average Googler is, and that's probably been the case for a decade at this point. The famous Rob Pike quote sums it up quite well: > The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probab…
I think Rob Pike's commentary on Go is why I decided to go into research. Google hires kilotons of developers and pays them gigadollars every year, then makes them work in dumbed-down languages because they can't be trusted with power tools. How has our industry gone so far astray that we pay people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year when they can't even understand generics? In what universe does it make sense t…
Wanting to make the situation better through a simpler, safer fit-for-purpose tool doesn't mean an industry is flawed anymore than the prevalence of sawstops means that carpentry is flawed.
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It's not about you, it's about your parents and grandparents.
What do you mean by that?
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What do you mean by that?
It's an ageist way of saying that this exploit is less critical for people who take proactive counter-measures, and more affects less technically inclined or security-minded people.
And that is an example of how political correctness is an arms race.
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It's not about you, it's about your parents and grandparents.
What do you mean by that?
EDIT: never mind Should probably be (2019), as the bug has been fixed since (as noted at the bottom of TFA).
Every bounty bug write up I've seen on HN was after it had been long fixed, so that should be a given when you see a write up like this.