From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: College Software Texts Found To Teach Insecure Coding
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:04:21 +0200
Date: 2008-07-28T16:04:21+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ltv4lyn209xd$.7vyfhe8lyk46$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8272e5f6-3f23-4639-9376-423853947a65@e53g2000hsa.googlegroups.com
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:23:40 -0700 (PDT), Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> Yes, you are right that there exist crappy books about some popular
> programming languages/technologies/whatever - but there is nothing
> spectacular in this fact.
Spectacular is the ratio of the crap to the signal.
> It is just the nature of big statistic samples.
Nope. Bigger samples behave more close to the expectation, i.e. the nature
of is exactly reverse.
The problem is - what to expect from a sample of books on IT? The answer,
read from the statistics, is - you should expect crap. I find it
spectacular, because it shows who is the average reader...
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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2008-07-22 19:39 College Software Texts Found To Teach Insecure Coding Adam Beneschan
2008-07-22 19:46 ` mockturtle
2008-07-22 20:16 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-07-22 20:41 ` mockturtle
2008-07-24 12:13 ` Colin Paul Gloster
2008-07-28 12:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-28 14:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2008-07-28 21:27 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-07-29 7:46 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
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