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Re:Let's Encrypt posts letter from executive director by ipaddr on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @11:58AM (#33883253)
Are programmers losing that childhood curiosity for how things work? Do programmers even value that anymore? Should that be the filter employers use to select candidates vs leetcode?

People may think they are Cool or special for millions of reasons (like not knowing what ssl is for example).

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Re:Let's Encrypt posts letter from executive director by jjulius on Tuesday December 06, 2022 @12:05PM (#33883402)
Who says they've lost the curiosity? What if all of their programming effort and energy is put into whatever the website is for? Why should they shift their focus over to learning all about SSL when that's not the point of whatever the project is and it will suck up too much time?

I could absolutely be wrong about that reasoning, though, but that's my point - we don't know why, so why assume a negative and then lean into that?

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