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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Skill issue

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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.

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Maybe even more!

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

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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.

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Yea! I’m one of them!

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Which half am I in?

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If you have to ask

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You know

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

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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.

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

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

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Literally.

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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.

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