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We often discuss the merit (or necessity) of having a formal degree in technology. This story is another installment in that debate:
The Department of the Interior's computer systems played a major role in the breach of systems belonging to the Office of Personnel Management, and DOI officials were called before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday to answer questions about the over 3,000 vulnerabilities in agency systems discovered in a penetration test run by Interior's Inspector General office. But there was one unexpected revelation during the hearing: a key Interior technology official who had access to sensitive systems for over five years had lied about his education, submitting falsified college transcripts produced by an online service.
The official, Faisal Ahmed, was assistant director of the Interior's Office of Law Enforcement and Security from 2007 to 2013, heading its Technology division. He claimed to have a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and a master's degree in technology management from the University of Central Florida—but he never attended either of those schools. He resigned from his position at Interior when the fraudulent claim was exposed by a representative of the University of Central Florida's alumni association, who discovered he had never attended the school after Ahmed accepted and then suddenly deleted a connection with her on LinkedIn.
TFA emphasizes the falsification he did of his credentials, but there seems to be heavy insinuation that lack of degree = lack of ability.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Friday July 17 2015, @08:06PM
The advantage is not creating a third array. Your line still creates a third array. I haven't used R before but i cannot find a definition for "which". Do you have a good reference to use?
I'm not saying creating a third array is wrong, just that almost everyone does it differently. Some may do the entire thing in a loop and never build out even a single array. Like: for(int i = min; i = max; i++) print(i + ' ' + fizz(i) + buzz(i))
In that case they never even had the starting range array but they have max-min+1 number of print calls which is a different kind of expensive.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @08:15PM
https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/base/html/which.html [stat.ethz.ch]
This is the closest I can find to showing what it does (probably doesn't help):