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I haven't looked into the Equifax hack, but plenty of highly competent programmers have music degrees. Rich Hickey for example. (source: https://gist.github.com
by pixelperfect 9y ago
I haven't looked into the Equifax hack, but plenty of highly competent programmers have music degrees. Rich Hickey for example. (source: https://gist.github.com/harfangk/f98e627f7567b7b5741fe0c239b57d6c https://gist.github.com/harfangk/f98e627f7567b7b5741fe0c239b...)
- dang 9y agoThe only interesting thing about this non-issue is that people brought it up without realizing how they were embarrassing themselves. Talk about a middlebrow dismissal.
- schoen 9y agoI think there's a real issue about the resources that are brought to bear on information security, and what we need to do to get more traction on it, but focusing people's academic background is a misleading way to try to talk about that.
- dang 9y agoThose are two completely different things. It couldn't be more ignorant to think that a music degree suggests anything about someone's technical competence (other than maybe a weak positive signal of intellectual breadth). One expects that from media outlets but to see it crop up on HN was shocking. Among people who ought to know better, I can't imagine a stronger indicator of small-mindedness.