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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
And sometimes it isn't merely a distraction that leads these
"entrepreneurs" into their own stream. Sometimes they are so full of
themselves they cannot operate in the main stream. Not finishing a degree may
instead be a reflection of that.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 05:49 PM EDT |
"not putting a high enough value on college degrees for employees"
Personally, I've observed at least three cases suggesting an *inverse*
correlation between completed post-secondary education and the skill to write
working, efficient code. Two of them were grad students that couldn't follow
directions, couldn't write the code they were assigned, and expected quite a bit
more support than one should expect coders to require. The third dropped out of
college about 15-20 years ago, went straight into industry, and quickly assumed
a position of technical leadership at any place he's ever worked since. This
guy can, in any of a dozen languages, deliver a prototype of a moderately
complex software system in a day or two from tasking, in code that's just about
as maintainable and scalable as you'd expect from production code.
billg cut his teeth in a milieu where resources were far more constrained than
we have now. Remember, he generally wasn't targeting machines with demand-paged
memory when he coded. Besides, it's not always about geek testosterone.
Slickness and finesse are still very much appreciated in the micro world where
throwing hardware at it is easier said than done.
The BSCS degree is a social degree, not a technical one.
-j[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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