Engineering code quality in Firefox

Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by vikramkr on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @06:52PM (#22940163)

That makes no sense as a class design - are there so many zero days in firefox that are so easy to find that you can expect undergrads to casually find enough that you can base 70% of the class grade on it?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by jimbob45 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:09PM (#22940305)

Every teacher wants to be the next Jaime Escalante. Sometimes they take their idealism too far.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by dmoy on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:48PM (#22940538)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that a research professor at presumably a large research university doesn't give two shits about being the next jaime escalante. The reality is probably that they're more focused on research, and don't care much about actually teaching. You see quite a bit of that.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Engineering code quality in Firefox by Hello71 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:15PM (#22940710)

my guess is that the prof wanted to plagiarize the work as their own.

[ Parent | on HN ]