Go find someone that gives a genuine shit about their career, then you've really found a rare occurrence. I knew that I wanted to work with computers and technology for the rest of my life when I was 12. 20 years later, I'm still going strong with more job offers than I can handle. I wouldn't recommend skipping college, although I only went part-time after I was recruited into a $40k a year gig in my Sophomore year and I've been making that much in the first 4 months of the year for almost 10 years. I dropped out for good, barely as a Junior.
If you're smart, hungry and you're truly committed; and will let nothing stop you then you're set for life. Desire can't be taught anywhere. When I need people with degrees, I just hire them. PhD's are a dime a dozen and I've yet to meet one worth a damn. Usually the laziest bastards that ever lived, that want to plan for 2 weeks on a task that takes 4 hours to complete if you're retarded. You give them the really easy tasks and give the hard stuff that can't possibly be done to the smart, hungry guy.
The good news is that you got a world class education at one of the world's most prestigious universities!
The bad news is that you have to average $170,000 of total home income over the next 30 years before you can afford a house in the Bay Area! Now, get to work...
Security has been and always will be an educational problem. Open Source makes the problem more transparent, but it's still pretty naive to think that someone is going to do a security audit of every line of code in a given product. Ex: Linux proved this with it's kernel hacks. Regardless of the severity of the problem, they were in plain site for anyone to analyze and correct for years. More than likely someone found the holes and was free to exploit them for years until a white hat hacker made the issue public. This was just one example and equally applies to any software.
The first line of defense in securing code is developer education for proper implementation of security using well known good practices. The greatest weakness that we as development professionals is that there are not enough resources available to teach these best practices, but they're coming slowly based on customer demand.
I think that we all have to remember that security issues have only recently become a mainstream computing problem and coincided directly with the increase in broadband Internet connections. I.e. The last 8 years or so.
So, what secure coding resources do developers have available to them today?
I don't think that Red Hat's 566 employees make them anywhere close to being an enterprise class company. Neither does their $126.1 Mil. in annual sales, nor does their 279.8 P/E ratio.
"We've forgotten" THE POINT! Nice to see that so much drivel has gone into stock schemes and not recognizing the truth. The Open Source community has forgotten how to find a way to pay their mortgages by doing work that they give away for free while their day job gets shipped to India.
Guess if they need a raise then they can just make the software so complex that any chance of implementing it will require a "consultant", until the next batch of college graduates needs to find a gig and undercuts their consulting prices and takes away their income stream.
Did noone pay attention to basic free market economics? Glad that the Open Marxists are at the helm of the movement.
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Go find someone that gives a genuine shit about their career, then you've really found a rare occurrence. I knew that I wanted to work with computers and technology for the rest of my life when I was 12. 20 years later, I'm still going strong with more job offers than I can handle. I wouldn't recommend skipping college, although I only went part-time after I was recruited into a $40k a year gig in my Sophomore year and I've been making that much in the first 4 months of the year for almost 10 years. I dropped out for good, barely as a Junior.
If you're smart, hungry and you're truly committed; and will let nothing stop you then you're set for life. Desire can't be taught anywhere. When I need people with degrees, I just hire them. PhD's are a dime a dozen and I've yet to meet one worth a damn. Usually the laziest bastards that ever lived, that want to plan for 2 weeks on a task that takes 4 hours to complete if you're retarded. You give them the really easy tasks and give the hard stuff that can't possibly be done to the smart, hungry guy.
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What fantasy world did you guys just arrive from? Apparently you guys blew one too many fattys before history class. Catch a clue.
The good news is that you got a world class education at one of the world's most prestigious universities! The bad news is that you have to average $170,000 of total home income over the next 30 years before you can afford a house in the Bay Area! Now, get to work...
Security has been and always will be an educational problem. Open Source makes the problem more transparent, but it's still pretty naive to think that someone is going to do a security audit of every line of code in a given product. Ex: Linux proved this with it's kernel hacks. Regardless of the severity of the problem, they were in plain site for anyone to analyze and correct for years. More than likely someone found the holes and was free to exploit them for years until a white hat hacker made the issue public. This was just one example and equally applies to any software. The first line of defense in securing code is developer education for proper implementation of security using well known good practices. The greatest weakness that we as development professionals is that there are not enough resources available to teach these best practices, but they're coming slowly based on customer demand. I think that we all have to remember that security issues have only recently become a mainstream computing problem and coincided directly with the increase in broadband Internet connections. I.e. The last 8 years or so. So, what secure coding resources do developers have available to them today?
I don't think that Red Hat's 566 employees make them anywhere close to being an enterprise class company. Neither does their $126.1 Mil. in annual sales, nor does their 279.8 P/E ratio.
The company looks more like a lottery pick to me.
"We've forgotten" THE POINT! Nice to see that so much drivel has gone into stock schemes and not recognizing the truth. The Open Source community has forgotten how to find a way to pay their mortgages by doing work that they give away for free while their day job gets shipped to India. Guess if they need a raise then they can just make the software so complex that any chance of implementing it will require a "consultant", until the next batch of college graduates needs to find a gig and undercuts their consulting prices and takes away their income stream. Did noone pay attention to basic free market economics? Glad that the Open Marxists are at the helm of the movement.
Where I come from they say, put up or shut up. If you could you would, so go and teach (or keep posting...).