National (JavaScript) Security Agency

Re:National (JavaScript) Security Agency by skrowl on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:13AM (#11643691)

While this code is pretty bad, I'm going to guess that the NSA reserves their best IT folks for... you know... the assignments other than their public facing website.

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Re:National (JavaScript) Security Agency by pba on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:35AM (#11643832)

Agreed, this code was probably written by a contractor rather than one of their mathematicians I'd imagine

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Re:National (JavaScript) Security Agency by delinka on Friday May 06, 2016 @09:43AM (#11643876)

Have you seen mathematicians write code? For a website? We hired a few (we're in the crypto business) and we don't let them near production code. Ever.

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Re:National (JavaScript) Security Agency by sremani on Friday May 06, 2016 @10:17AM (#11644116)

General observation, mathematicians excel at functional v. imperative, partially because so many functional concepts are grounded in mathematics/logic.

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