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by bpyne 12y ago
Success is highly subjective. Perhaps you mean different?
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College grads are further along the learning curve when they come out. They've had more time to develop skills. They've had more time to make mistakes, which affected their grades only, and learn from the mistakes. Should they ha
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by bpyne 12y ago
Correct. My comment was not assigning fault to boot camp grads. People looking for a job can't be blamed for accepting a job offered. It's been 20+ years since I was broke and trying to break into the field. I haven't forgott
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by bpyne 12y ago
Ah, your population is different than I imagined. I had a Doomsday vision of high school graduates and former tradespeople, for example, going for quickie certification. I'd still feel better if we had formal mentors in the office plac
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by bpyne 12y ago
I came into the field without a background in computer science. I learned on the job how to design, develop, and test software. However, I wasn't allowed to work on high value projects at the time and a formal mentoring system was in p
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by bpyne 12y ago
Interesting observation. Being a native Northeasterner, I'd love to know more about the spending patterns of East Coast men even if it's a wild generalization. I was in NYC over the weekend and Los Angeles - for my first time - ba
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by bpyne 12y ago
Especially if you work in retail or the food/hospitality industries.
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by bpyne 12y ago
I think it depends on different factors. My wife has the same experience as you - never had less than 3 weeks of vacation time. She's a policy analyst in the non-profit sector. I've been in IT as a software developer for 20+ years
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by bpyne 12y ago
Thanks for taking the time to explain this to me: I was a little off target. I don't have a background in AI but find it fascinating. (I'm preparing to undertake a formal study of it within the next 2 years. If you can recommend i
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I'm unsure sometimes if the AI moniker isn't misleading people as to what is really happening. We (human beings) aren't creating an artificial intelligence. We are learning about our own intelligence and then trying to put in
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by bpyne 12y ago
The author exposes a problem of ideological practice in software engineering. We're trained to organize code for extensibility and high availability, among other goals. We should probably learn to evaluate situations in which those goa
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by bpyne 12y ago
The Real Names policy stinks. It misses completely legitimate (and innocent) reasons why people want to be anonymous sometimes. That said, your other point needs to be trumpeted to any companies thinking about taking a run at FB. The realit
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by bpyne 13y ago
I have to admit to a huge amount of respect for the Japanese culture - problems not withstanding. Its ability to distill "essence", as exemplified in the article, and its huge respect for craftsmanship just leave me in awe.
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by bpyne 13y ago
Just to add to your point, having a fairly large culture of start up founders in their 20's nowadays adds to the problem (1). People gather around them people they can relate to - it's sub-conscious. A 20-something and a 40-someth
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by bpyne 13y ago
"Brilliant" is so broad. Some people are brilliant in a particular subject; some are brilliant in the breadth of their knowledge; some of brilliant socially; some are brilliant analytically; etc. I like the author's anecdotes
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by bpyne 13y ago
Teams beyond a certain size seem to require some intermediate artifacts. (Bill Joy described an ideal-sized team to be the number of people who can sit comfortably around a dinner table: so 3-6 is fairly perfect for his definition.) It seem
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by bpyne 13y ago
If I stayed in application development, I'd probably move towards web design. I don't think enough has been done to make interfaces effective, pleasant to use, and intuitive. What interests me is research into education and learni
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by bpyne 13y ago
I'm in mid-career now. While I still enjoy writing a really great app that people want to use, applications are mostly CRUD-based and a little dull. It's not the fault of my employer or any for that matter. It's just that fet
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by bpyne 13y ago
I wish this post was around when I finished my undergraduate degree in Mathematics. I would have taken my adviser's advice to go to grad school. At the time, I remember telling him that I feel like a barely made it through the program.
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by bpyne 13y ago
Tough question to answer without knowing more about you. Graduating high school and going directly into industry will give you some real world experience. Professional development is very different from hobby development. Professional devel
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by bpyne 13y ago
Lawns, as in well-manicured grassy areas, are not typically the only thing a lawn care company does. The ones in my area do full landscaping, possibly excavating, and they have someone with a landscape architecture background. In the Fall t
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by bpyne 13y ago
It'll be interesting to see the direction Mr. Nadella takes the company in. Hopefully he expands the Research division and tears down barriers to incorporating more research gems into the product lines. I'd also like to see more U
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by bpyne 13y ago
I doubt President Obama came up with the campaign on his own and I very much doubt "pushing down labor costs for software development" is even on the list of reasons. Labor costs may ultimately come down, but it won't be due
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by bpyne 13y ago
You're being a bit too literal. The name came from the resemblance of a diagram in the paper to a waterfall. The name wasn't meant to constrain the methodology to strict characteristics of a waterfall. The steps are meant to be fo
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by bpyne 13y ago
In the version of the paper linked earlier in the forum, I take the following to mean two passes: build a model and then use lessons learned to build the final product. But it's a matter of interpretation and semantics. My own interpre
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Much of our industry believes Waterfall means a single-pass development process. Dr. Royce explicitly said to do it twice. (It was a military officer who later took the process and made it into a single pass.) If you learned it as a two-pas
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by bpyne 13y ago
Times have changed considerably. When I started in the industry 20+ years ago our tools were a compiler, debugger, and editor. Any library not provided by the compiler we wrote simply because purchasing libraries was very expensive. We also
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by bpyne 13y ago
Thanks for the reply. It looks like a great program. Unfortunately, my wife would have a hard time finding work in her field and my daughter loves her school and friends too much. I'd feel awful asking them to make the sacrifice.
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Around 7 years ago I looked into a grad program in CS with a bachelors in mathematics. I talked with graduate advisors from both my state university and Brown. Their requirements were similar: 4-5 undergraduate courses in comp. sci. and sub
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by bpyne 13y ago
The assumption is that the integration of those apps into use-patterns closely enough resembles what they do on the iPhone/Pad. The reality is that it's mostly people who have a predilection towards experimenting with technology w

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