Re:Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over ...
by hnfong on Thursday November 17, 2022 @12:24PM
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Somehow this triggers memories of (among all things) taking exams when I was a student.
Unless you prepared well, there's often some exam questions you are clueless about, and yet there's usually no penalty for writing some bullshit in the hopes of accidentally getting a partial score. So what students are trained to do is to write whatever bullshit that seems to be relevant and hope for the best.
I realized the mindset that makes me a quality-conscious programmer is actually the anti-thesis of this. In fact during my later years I almost couldn't do that exam-bullshitting any more. It feels so bad writing something I don't understand that I almost couldn't do it.
This might be offtopic, but I guess many people who don't have a natural OCD-tendency to deeply understand their work and care about tidiness might have to actively unlearn what they trained for at least a decade in school...
Unless you prepared well, there's often some exam questions you are clueless about, and yet there's usually no penalty for writing some bullshit in the hopes of accidentally getting a partial score. So what students are trained to do is to write whatever bullshit that seems to be relevant and hope for the best.
I realized the mindset that makes me a quality-conscious programmer is actually the anti-thesis of this. In fact during my later years I almost couldn't do that exam-bullshitting any more. It feels so bad writing something I don't understand that I almost couldn't do it.
This might be offtopic, but I guess many people who don't have a natural OCD-tendency to deeply understand their work and care about tidiness might have to actively unlearn what they trained for at least a decade in school...