nmrm2

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by nmrm2 12y ago
My point was just that, on balance, colleges -- especially elite ones -- tend to produce the "highly skilled engineer working on critical infrastructure" type of CS practitioner, not the "in-house data munging app" type
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> I believe Google would hire people on what they can do rather than focus on their paper qualifications. And I see this being a growing trend in the future. Sure. Any my point was that I don't believe we can sustainable pump out th
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by nmrm2 12y ago
If you want to be a scientist and study computing , college is still a great option. The OP's point was that increasingly, the low-hanging fruit is already picked and areas of high growth require a deep technical understanding of one
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Disclaimer: I'm happy Capital One changed their hiring policy. It's their reasoning -- not their policy -- that worries me. What worries me is that the attitude that "Software development can be learned anywhere" might c
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Is that per capita? The US is also one of the largest OECD countries in terms of population, so if not, it's a pretty meaningless statistic. CS industry in general is a little bit strange because jobs are so plentiful and many of those
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by nmrm2 12y ago
when you could be using that effort to further improve the world. Except that by "improve the world", you actually mean "make a quick(er) buck for ourselves". By the same logic, your company charging for their software
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Be consistent. Graduates from top private/public unis will have more debt, sure, but they also do make 80k+ on average, as a matter of fact. So the debt load is best case comparable in 1/2 the time and for no degree. As others h
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> It's essentially a "Super-Post Doc," but hopefully with a salary one can reasonably live on modestly. My impression was always that research scientists/professors are paid reasonably well (e.g., what you might get i
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by nmrm2 12y ago
No, I said if there supply of ad juncts halved or external motivators for not using ad juncts were strong enough (e.g., the public stops subsidizing your institution with tax dollars), then universities would hire more FTE positions. In t
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by nmrm2 12y ago
If I want to optimize for longevity of career and salary, then a college degree is the obvious choice.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
This is not true. The opposite is true. The average person has 27k, which means it's a pretty exceptional person who leaves college with 40k in debt (that's 25% of 80k over 2 years). The real cost disparity is probably even larger
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by nmrm2 12y ago
The fact that the educational institution takes on the risk of graduating students who cannot get jobs is a welcome change from the consumer's perspective. But I fear at scale (and even now) it's paid for by higher prices. See my
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by nmrm2 12y ago
But they're looking for top students , so presumably their competitors are MIT, CMU, Stanford, etc. rather than the local Community College. Trade schools are great things, but I'm not sure I could feel comfortable advising a stu
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by nmrm2 12y ago
In fact, if your starting salary is 80k, this is ten thousand dollars MORE THAN the average college debt ! And no opportunities to branch out of software engineering. Your starting salary would have to be around 55-60k for you to take on l
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Read the admissions page. It's a well-connected trade school for gifted students entering the tech industry as defined by SV, not a scalable alternative and repeatable model for general-purpose higher ed. edit: This isn't judgemen
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by nmrm2 12y ago
The NSA's primary charter is security, not science. Science that happens at the NSA is a happy accident. NASA and the NIH are explicitly research-focused. And DARPA may be part of DOD, but its charter is right in the name -- advanced r
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Or we could demand our states care as much about advancing human knowledge during peace time as they do during war time.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Because if you cut half the administrators, after a bit of juggling no one would notice. If you cut half the ad juncts, the school would absolutely be forced to go on a hiring spree for new FTE teaching positions, just to perform its most b
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” -Upton Sinclair The author met that they've benefited in the sense that we all have benefited. I very much doubt that t
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> At the very least, they shouldn't demand other people subsidize their choices. This attitude is common, confusing, and misses the point. The point is that when universities spend obscene amounts of money on administration and fanc
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> ps: Is there a way to prove the output of complex regular expressions? It's not really clear what you mean here. Maybe you mean "if the input matches this regex, then it can't be used for command injection"? Then yo
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by nmrm2 12y ago
I really want an IDE that puts a little yellow warning thingy on the screen whenever the compiler can't TCO a function.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
Lots of CS majors also aren't "wired that way" (lots of gamers who've never been good at math or science but are "good with computers", kids who hear the jobs pay well or are enamored with prospect of striking
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by nmrm2 12y ago
No. Most liberal arts majors either doubled in a "harder" field, or minored in Education/Business/etc. as a back-up option. The Edu and Business major and minor required a CS course. So most of the liberal arts students
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> most of them wash out. Having taught a fair share of liberal arts majors in intro CS courses, I am absolutely certain that there is essentially no difference in skill between people who choose to major in CS and people who choose to ma
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by nmrm2 12y ago
You forgot step four of The System :-)
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by nmrm2 12y ago
I think with security (and esp. privacy), the problem is more coming up with the specs in the first place. If you can do that in a reliable way, designing appropriate static analyses is probably doable.
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> do you know all of the hearsay exceptions off-hand? I'm completely on your side here, but as someone who bowed out of legal ambitions by late high school (and took them quite seriously prior to that), my answer is yes -- they are
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> we have a method to verify whether they can do those things in a practical way and this shouldn't require platitudes about complexity and history of jurisprudence etc. The author explicitly stated it's not impossible to rep
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by nmrm2 12y ago
> So you'll accept a guy working in a patent office solving a difficult problem in physics, but heaven forbid he should feel qualified to represent himself in court. Citing Einstein as a prototypical example is somehow conceding the

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