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The way most folks learn to do high end niche programming: In advanced degree programs, research organizations and through professional development at governmen
by lawnchair_larry 14y ago
The way most folks learn to do high end niche programming: In advanced degree programs, research organizations and through professional development at government employers / contractors.
Charlie Miller is a well known example of this - he famously markets himself as a reliable exploit writer, his background came from doing the same work at the NSA.
Nope, Charlie is definitely not the typical story. Most of these guys don't even have college degrees.
- trotsky 14y agoDo you work in the industry? It's changed significantly in the last five or ten years. There are dozens or even hundreds of small shops in the dc area doing this kind of work and self taught no degree folks are a small minority. Maybe it's the silent majority. After all, most developers aren't the node and nosql pioneers that get all the press, most are working in some office park doing .net and plsql.