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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.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Maybe even more!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Yea! I'm one of them!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Half of all programmers constitute the so called "average" group

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

If you have to ask

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

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