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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 02:41 PM EDT |
Kind of like football or basketball....some of the greats move on to the pros
before graduating.
Stallman, Torvalds weren't quite so driven by the money...decided to
graduate anyway.
(Christenson)
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 02:48 PM EDT |
Hehehehehe.
Hmmm, correlation?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: stegu on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 02:55 PM EDT |
Tech geeks who want to do something great tend
to finish their degree and then find stuff to
do with their skills. Those who are more set on
earning money often find ways to do it with far
less formal skills, and do not see the need to
graduate. This is a cynical generalization, and
I gloss over many fine points, but it's something
that I have spotted quite generally over the years.
I have seen this with many of my friends from
college, and later with my students. People with
a strong entrepreneural spirit, those who are first
and foremost set on earning money by starting
their own company, often do so before graduation
and end up being distracted by it, quite often
dropping out of college and never finishing their
degree.
This could possibly affect the corporate culture
of such start-ups even after they have grown
to the size of Microsoft or Oracle. When people
without a college degree stay in charge, their
spirit might pervade the internal company
culture by not putting a high enough value on
college degrees for employees, and as a result
letting unskilled people do too much complicated
work.
I know very little of Ellison and Oracle, but I
do know that Bill Gates had a definite negative
impact in this respect. He used to mock people who
tried to write "nice" code, and he actively encouraged
"clever hacks": quick but ugly solutions to problems
that would have deserved better. I find it likely
that this is the root of many bad practices in
Microsoft's software engineering over the years.
People who start a company are not necessarily
best equipped to run them in the long term.
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| Authored by: MadTom1999 on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
I guess that's why they go around patenting the obvious. If they'd finished
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 04:21 PM EDT |
Well, it's definitely not a representative sample, but based on both lists you
provide, billionaires drop out of collage, non-billionaires don't :p. Though I
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 10:16 PM EDT |
A huge percentage of the tech community has never completed college. right now,
the question of if you have or have not graduated has very little correlation
with how good you are.
The greats were tinkering with computers long before they got to college, and
depending on the school, the college classes may or may not have provided much
value.
you can come up with lots of names on both sides of things, and you really need
to compare individuals, not groups.
I ended up dropping out of college due to money constraints after getting to my
Senior year, but I'd put myself up against my classmates at any time on any
subject. When I was in class there were usually only a couple people I
considered my peers. In the 18 years since then, the percentage of co-workers I
considered my peers is about the same ratio, even when lots of them have degrees
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