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by ghostpepper 1245 days ago
According to Slashdot this article was online since at least September 2005.

I would be interested to hear the author's thoughts on what has changed in the 18+ years since it was written.

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Oof, well, I was going to say,

> My prediction is that the "Hacking is Cool" dumb idea will be a dead idea in the next 10 years.

… that won't age well, and apparently, that didn't age well. It won't happen in the next 10, either.

Nor will good engineering: as an industry, we a.) dislike the very idea that knowledge is required for software engineering and b.) every "Rust fixes this entire class of bugs, permanently" "oh god not the Rust evangelists" … yeah, the bugs will continue.