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>Pretty much. IT as a field is a toddler. It's exactly as old as nuclear engineering. If it's a toddler, it's because of the mentality of the people involved,
by gambler 5y ago
>Pretty much. IT as a field is a toddler.
It's exactly as old as nuclear engineering.
If it's a toddler, it's because of the mentality of the people involved, not because there was no time to figure things out.
- BiteCode_dev 5y agoWhich was left in the hands of a small elite from the beginning. I don't think reddit could have been born that way :)
- dntrkv 5y agoIt’s almost like we have different standards for different types of engineering. The devs writing code for the next social media app operate under very different standards than the ones writing code for nuclear reactors. And that’s ok.
- zapataband1 5y agoPretty sure this is because most of our public investing goes towards spying programs instead of more funding for places like NIST. Not to mention funding for governments that actively sell exploits to other nations. Standards seem to be left up to the industry. I saw the Kubernetes hardening guildelines from NIST a while back that was cool.
- dtech 5y agonuclear engineering is a direct combination of applied physics, civil engineering and mechanical engineering, all having a long history. SE started out from mathematics, but the hardest problems are not related to it. We're only pretty good at nailing the things directly from mathematics like algorithmic complexity or distributed system guarantees.