That's a total crock. My thesis project is thousands of lines of Python code, including GUI code, and it hasn't been through an IDE of any sort. Emacs is most assuredly sufficient. It is all a matter of what you are comfortable with.
Although the source of the message certainly lessens its credibility, they have a point. Things like the Honeynet Project have shown a huge _lack_ of intelligent attackers in the wild. The endless waves of attacks filling the internet are pulled off by script kiddies, many of which can't mount a drive, compile a file, or even write a script. And we are feeding them. If we really want things to get better, we have to find a societal solution for the problem. It certainly seems to me that the full disclosure paradigm at least needs to be scrutinized, if not dumped altogether.
Music piracy isn't a technical problem. It is a societal one, and it is fairly unlikely that a technical solution will ever really solve it completely.
I know from experience that some of these places only care about the degree. I was a highschooler with a fairly extensive background and was 1 point off of Westwoods qualifying test, but they wouldn't even consider me for a position since I didn't have a degree. (I think "Nice score, go to college" would be a good paraphrasing of what I got back on that particular test.)
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That's a total crock. My thesis project is thousands of lines of Python code, including GUI code, and it hasn't been through an IDE of any sort. Emacs is most assuredly sufficient. It is all a matter of what you are comfortable with.
Although the source of the message certainly lessens its credibility, they have a point. Things like the Honeynet Project have shown a huge _lack_ of intelligent attackers in the wild. The endless waves of attacks filling the internet are pulled off by script kiddies, many of which can't mount a drive, compile a file, or even write a script. And we are feeding them. If we really want things to get better, we have to find a societal solution for the problem. It certainly seems to me that the full disclosure paradigm at least needs to be scrutinized, if not dumped altogether.
Music piracy isn't a technical problem. It is a societal one, and it is fairly unlikely that a technical solution will ever really solve it completely.
I know from experience that some of these places only care about the degree. I was a highschooler with a fairly extensive background and was 1 point off of Westwoods qualifying test, but they wouldn't even consider me for a position since I didn't have a degree. (I think "Nice score, go to college" would be a good paraphrasing of what I got back on that particular test.)