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Yep. You'd need somebody with absolutely no shame ... like Phil Greenspun! http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing http://philip.greenspun.
by ken 18y ago
Yep. You'd need somebody with absolutely no shame ... like Phil Greenspun!
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/acm-women-in-computing
http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science
"[A]nyone smart enough to make it as a computer scientist can make it with less work and risk as an MD, MBA, or JD."
"A lot of men are irrational, romantic, stubborn, and unwilling to admit that they've made a big mistake. With Occam's Razor, we should not need to bring in the FBI to solve the mystery of why there are more men than women who have chosen to stick with the choice that they made at age 18"
- nandemo 18y ago"[A]nyone smart enough to make it as a computer scientist can make it with less work and risk as an MD, MBA, or JD." This is odd for at least 2 reasons: 1) It's really hard to believe that getting a MD is "less work and risk" than getting a degree in CS. 2) At least in my country, most people who are interested in CS or engineering wouldn't even consider becoming doctors. It's not about money.
- hugh 18y ago"[A]nyone smart enough to make it as a computer scientist can make it with less work and risk as an MD, MBA, or JD." Oh, come now. I see a lot of over-the-top programmer glorification on this site, but this takes the cake. I know plenty of complete dolts who managed to get degrees in CS, and who went on to have reasonably rewarding careers. At no point were their grades (nor their general levels of ability) high enough to get them anywhere near law school, let alone medical school. Now maybe you, dear reader, could have easily got into medical or law school, but the vast majority of your classmates couldn't.