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I have no qualms on the salary. I would love an extra $15 a day for food. The size of the classes at Berkeley has always had me scratching my head for decades

I have no qualms on the salary. I would love an extra $15 a day for food. The size of the classes at Berkeley has always had me scratching my head for decades now. "I found it really difficult to balance CS61A (a massive class of 2000) with CS169A (still a fairly large class of 350), since 169A required a fair bit of work in writing quizzes/exams (5 quizzes, 1 exam), grading open-ended homework assignments, and staff management." I knew people who went to Berkeley years ago, and was shocked at the class sizes. I've worked with Berkeley grads, and besides constantly signaling they went to Berkeley; I wasen't impressed with their abilities. (That goes for all the fancy schools though? All the ones we are suspose to be wowed by.) Then again some of the guys I worked with whom really impressed me were college dropouts, or mainly self taught.

quickthrower2 4y ago
Doing programming as a job has little overlap with what is learned at university. You don’t need a degree to be a coder. It is effectively a proof of work.
- donthellbanme 4y ago
  I had that figured out a couple of decades ago. If I started a new business, excuse me Start-up, which college applicants hide in for 4 years would have no bearing on my new hires. And yes--I'm the guy who spent way to much time hiding in college. It was cheaper in the 90's though, and I lived with my dad way too long.
  - quickthrower2 4y ago
    A “problem” in the 90s is going to uni was rarer and so I felt a bit arrogant that I was going. One if the best at your school doesn’t mean one of the best at uni though! And I realised while I like maths, it is the maths you can visualize. My favourite was calculus and learning about limits! Just imagine it getting smaller right. But then it got more and more abstract. I lost the love of studying it and the intuition. So in a nutshell I am saying Dunning-Kruger. But I could have been just a good coder if I got a job with other coders to learn the craft and nothing beyond 0-16 yo learning. I would have self taught stuff to the same difficulty as the 16-21 yo learning but on applied topics. Learning Windows internals for example or Linux - depending on where the job took me.
seoaeu 4y ago
Extra $15/day? You’re currently not spending any money on food?

quickthrower2 4y ago

Doing programming as a job has little overlap with what is learned at university. You don’t need a degree to be a coder. It is effectively a proof of work.

donthellbanme 4y ago
I had that figured out a couple of decades ago. If I started a new business, excuse me Start-up, which college applicants hide in for 4 years would have no bearing on my new hires. And yes--I'm the guy who spent way to much time hiding in college. It was cheaper in the 90's though, and I lived with my dad way too long.
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  A “problem” in the 90s is going to uni was rarer and so I felt a bit arrogant that I was going. One if the best at your school doesn’t mean one of the best at uni though! And I realised while I like maths, it is the maths you can visualize. My favourite was calculus and learning about limits! Just imagine it getting smaller right. But then it got more and more abstract. I lost the love of studying it and the intuition. So in a nutshell I am saying Dunning-Kruger. But I could have been just a good coder if I got a job with other coders to learn the craft and nothing beyond 0-16 yo learning. I would have self taught stuff to the same difficulty as the 16-21 yo learning but on applied topics. Learning Windows internals for example or Linux - depending on where the job took me.

seoaeu 4y ago

Extra $15/day? You’re currently not spending any money on food?