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obviously decades of security advisories means it's not easy. what in the world does 'easy' mean in your current usage? surely "tons of failures" is a better
by simondedalus 10y ago
obviously decades of security advisories means it's not easy. what in the world does 'easy' mean in your current usage? surely "tons of failures" is a better indicator of difficulty than "it feels easy to me / that's 'naturally how my brain works'," etc.
and of course, if lots of people fail at something, it will get proportionally harder with a larger team / larger codebase / different stakeholders demanding xyz, etc etc etc.
not chiming in about the basic disagreements in this thread, but the repeated claim that something that has caused trouble for countless professionals is "easy" just can't be right. if all the qualified people are "unqualified" because they all fail at something "everyone can do," the speaker is the one who's confused, and it's a lexical problem.
- lacampbell 10y agoI never said everyone could do it. But a competent C programmer definitely can. I suppose I am an elitist in the sense that I don't think novice or careless programmers should be writing production code. I mean people manage to do a lot of dangerous things due to sloppiness - cause car accidents, for example. I don't think it's hard to avoid that, and I don't think those people should be driving. I suppose others think we need wider roads and bumper cars.