Biden administration calls for developers to embrace memory-safe programing languages and move away from those that cause buffer overflows and other memory access vulnerabilities.

    • Pennomi
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      941 year ago

      I think that’s the point. You can’t trust the average developer to do things safely. And remember, half of all programmers are even worse than average.

      • @datelmd5sum
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        61 year ago

        Wouldn’t that be the median programmer instead of average?

        • Pennomi
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          11 year ago

          The word “average“ can mean many things, for example, mean, median, mode, or even things like “within 1 standard deviation from the mean”.

          I was using it strictly as the mean which divides the population exactly in half.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            The median is the one that splits a data set in half and picks the middle.

            • Pennomi
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              11 year ago

              You’re right of course, that was a stupid mistake on my part.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        Half of all programmers constitute the so called “average” group

      • Darkrai
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        21 year ago

        Which half am I in?

        • SuperDuper
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          161 year ago

          If you have to ask

          • Pons_Aelius
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            81 year ago

            Yes. And 75% of car driver believe they are above average as well…

            • tim-clark
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              41 year ago

              99% of devs believe they are in the top 1%

      • @ChillPenguin
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        21 year ago

        Yea! I’m one of them!

      • @Viking_Hippie
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        • @Feathercrown
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          Bell curves don’t work to make this point. A bell curve is symmetrical, so half of developers will always be below average on a bell curve. But yes, it is true that for other types of distributions, more or less than half of the developers could be below average. What the person above you was looking for, in the general case, would be the median.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          What? How would you define “average”? His statement is technically correct.

          • @[email protected]
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            21 year ago

            Average is the mean (i.e. sum of all “skill” divided by the amount of programmers)

            What they were thinking of is the median (50th percentile = 0.5 quantile), which splits the group in two equal sized groups.

            For a bell curve, they are the same values. But think of the example of average incomes: 9 people have an income of 10$, one has an income of 910$. The average income is 100$ ((10*9+910)/10). The median is basically 10 however.

            • @[email protected]
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              41 year ago

              The distribution of skill in humans, for various tasks and abilities, can often be approximated by a normal distribution. In that case, as you know, the mean is equal to the average.

        • Pennomi
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          21 year ago

          The mean is in the center of the bell curve, so I’m not sure what your point is.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      Or rather a Dunning Kruger issue: seniors having spent a significant time architecturing and debugging complex applications tend to be big proponents for things like rust.