The article's underlying assumptions are depressing. A nice aspect of being a developer in "startups" is that no one ever cared about my grades. The notion that

The article's underlying assumptions are depressing. A nice aspect of being a developer in "startups" is that no one ever cared about my grades. The notion that a university feeds you to employers after stamping a grade on your head... pathetic. If these institutions are the best our current world has to offer, guess we're born into a rather silly time. Some of my friends and I pay someone to teach us regularly. We research how we each learn effectively, and expect that to be respected. (Or we find a more respectful teacher.) We use techniques like retrospectives to help steer us. Reducing that to some silly letter/number, for some managerial bureaucrat, would be dignity-less and counterproductive. We're pretty privileged, so with a little money we can escape the substandard education that most people suffer.