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US Would Be 28th In 'Hacking Olympics', China Would Take The Gold (infoworld.com)
After analyzing 1.4 million scores on HackerRank's tests for coding accuracy and speed, Chinese programmers "outscored all other countries in mathematics, functional programming, and data structures challenges". Long-time Slashdot reader DirkDaring quotes a report from InfoWorld:
While the United States and India may have lots of programmers, China and Russia have the most talented developers according to a study by HackerRank... "If we held a hacking Olympics today, our data suggests that China would win the gold, Russia would take home a silver, and Poland would nab the bronze. Though they certainly deserve credit for making a showing, the United States and India have some work ahead of them before they make it into the top 25."
While the majority of scores came from America and India, the two countries ranked 28th and 31st, respectively. "Poland was tops in Java testing, France led in C++, Hong Kong in Python, Japan in artificial intelligence, and Switzerland in databases," reports InfoWorld. Ukrainian programmers had the top scores in security, while Finland showed the highest scores for Ruby.
While the majority of scores came from America and India, the two countries ranked 28th and 31st, respectively. "Poland was tops in Java testing, France led in C++, Hong Kong in Python, Japan in artificial intelligence, and Switzerland in databases," reports InfoWorld. Ukrainian programmers had the top scores in security, while Finland showed the highest scores for Ruby.
I've been using WeChat because I'm working on a project in China, and everyone uses WeChat over there. Like instead of Facebook or email or text messaging or any combination of the above, it's WeChat. And they use QR codes for everything and the QR codes actually work and everyone actually voluntarily uses the QR codes. It's actually surprisingly well built and functional software. And there's no ads. And I haven't seen any outstanding bugs. And almost everything can be displayed in English, including translating messages.
And I'm sure the Chinese government has access to everything I say and do on WeChat, and probably on the rest of the burner phone that I've installed it onto...
I've been using WeChat because I'm working on a project in China, and everyone uses WeChat over there. Like instead of Facebook or email or text messaging or any combination of the above, it's WeChat. And they use QR codes for everything and the QR codes actually work and everyone actually voluntarily uses the QR codes. It's actually surprisingly well built and functional software. And there's no ads. And I haven't seen any outstanding bugs. And almost everything can be displayed in English, including translating messages.
And I'm sure the Chinese government has access to everything I say and do on WeChat, and probably on the rest of the burner phone that I've installed it onto...
I am an unemployed Stem graduate in the US, and I find it ridiculous , all the talk about not enough skilled IT workers in the US, while H1b employees are preferred over top performing graduates such as myself, primarily for the almighty dollar.
It is ridiculous because all of these companies trash the skill level of American graduates, yet they are living in fantasy land if they think that anything an H1b does has any benefit in terms of information security. I have worked as a penetration tester, as an administrator for 5 fortune 500 companies and have 3 degrees, one in computer programming and two in electronic engineering. I have worked in jobs that require a security clearance and yet I get asked by recruiters "I don't see any experience in information security" when I have more than 10 years in that field. I wonder if recruiters are willfully ignorant or if they are just not reading my resume.
We have a tradeoff here, either companies can hire Chinese and Indian workers at pennies on the dollar and basically be hemorrhaging confidential information or they can pay for experience and proper attention to protecting their information. They really can't have it both ways. The old tired argument that there is a lack of qualified workers in this country is pretty much not in line with reality. I am working currently at starting my own information security and pen testing firm. I am not waiting for those in the ivory towers to pull their collective heads out of their asses and see reason. I suspect there is going to be an epidemic of "China hacked us" and "India hacked us" and "Russia hacked us" before they start realizing that they basically opened their network to the hackers that caused these information breeches and actually paid them to do it.
Go ahead and troll away, but it does not change the truth.. electing Trump is not going to change it.. Electing Hillary might help but I don't see that it is a partisan issue it is a question of there being a shortage of sane and technically savvy business leaders in this country.. This is why our economy is failing. The whole, "let them eat cake" attitude of the business managers in this country is going to bite us in the ass hard and until it hits the haves where it hurts (in their wallets) in such a way that they cannot let the costs and the shit roll down hill, we are going to keep doing the same things and expecting different results. Try pointing this out in a job interview and watch how fast your resume meets the circular file. This is why I am working for myself , the financial elite in this country have a major disconnect with reality and don't understand why what they are doing is making the problem worse. They are not listening to the experts. They hire H1b workers who are more than happy to work for pennies on the dollar and meanwhile are stealing information and selling it to our enemies worldwide.. and making more money all the while down the line if they American companies had just paid for local skilled workers, they would have moved to heal the local economy and made more profit and protected their information security by default. In summary, we need more technically savvy people in positions of business leadership. That is where the shortage of technically savvy workers is in this country.