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I consider the ACM just as bad. Their membership pricing is restrictive for casual users and their conferences are worse. I also consider their restrictions o
by wheels 18y ago
I consider the ACM just as bad. Their membership pricing is restrictive for casual users and their conferences are worse.
I also consider their restrictions on who is able to become a member insulting (though they don't apply to me). Wait, so a physicist who's taken up programming in the last year isn't supposed to be able to read papers on computation?
- arebop 18y agoRE: restrictions on who is able to become a member: "Membership Qualifications You must satisfy one of the qualifications below: 1. Bachelor's Degree (in any subject area); or 2. Equivalent Level of Education; or 3. Two years full-time employment in the IT field." --- https://campus.acm.org/public/ProfQJ/qjprof_control.cfm?form_type=Professional https://campus.acm.org/public/ProfQJ/qjprof_control.cfm?form...
- jgrahamc 18y agoSorry, Michael Faraday you don't have the relevant experience or degree so you can't have access to that information. Huh? You mean you attended _free_ lectures by Sir Humphrey Davy and then went on to become one of the greatest scientists of all time. Wow. Those were the days.
- wheels 18y agoI know a number of OSS contributors that would fall foul of that. Think for instance of somebody that dropped out college and is working in something non-IT, but still likes to sling code. It's just a really useless requirement, especially given that you have to pay $200 on top of it. If there were real, you know, proficiency requirements or something that would be one thing, but anybody who's had any job in IT for two years?
- michael_dorfman 18y agoThey can read the papers, and subscribe to the journals-- they just don't get the member's discount. Seriously: do you know of a (useful) professional organization that has no restrictions on membership?
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