NSA firing 90% of its sysadmins to eliminate potential Snowdens

[William_Holz]

@AliceWeir

Yep. I started out as a Systems Analyst - ages ago when businesses were first beginning to automate their internal operations. It was a natch - my dad was Chief Technical Editor for a huge IT corp, so I grew up with it in a house filled with greenbar paper where programming languages were for weenies and human language was mostly considered an annoyance, unless you had a good sci-fi book to talk about.

Ahh, yes, some similar upbringings. My sister and I used to make huge card-houses out of these. . .

@AliceWeir

Heh - did you actually say, ‘algorithm’ out loud in front of them? with a straight face? Cuz that would pretty much do it, right there!

Only if it couldn’t be avoided, I generally made it a rule to keep to three syllables or less when dealing with executives