On Monday, February 28, 2005, at 10:54 PM, Ben Tilly wrote:
In an interview what you just said would make me worried. You're using a technique that you don't understand.
Interesting that you've imagined yourself in a position to be interviewing me. Not a very likely scenario though.
However Mr. Shwartz's model of the problem does not reflect majority opinion with respect to the breadth of the issue,
When you misspelled "Schwartzian transform", I thought it was possibly a typo. But you've made the same mistake again.
His name is Schwartz. With a silent c in it. Agree or disagree with him, it is polite to get his name correct.
It must really suck not to have anything relevant to certification to say, and yet wanting to say so much so badly. Back handed personal attacks seldom further your point of view.
Future advice, people who start and run their own businesses are seldom anti-capitalistic. If you think that they are being so, then you're probably missing something important about how they perceive their own economic interests.
A lecture about what people who start and run their own business are like? PLEASE TELL ME MORE! Randal speaks a little on his interest in money on the page you suggested, and I don't think this would be characterized as naked capitalist greed: "I've worked too hard over the past decade to help this community in as many free ways as I can, and get paid for the things that I have to get paid for so that I can put food on the table and pay for my net access."
In a straw poll of the 3 programmers sitting closest to me, one was slightly against, one slightly for, and one didn't care. I think that that's probably representative.
Well, gee, I had no idea that the guy next to you agrees...
MIT is also the school which introduced Scheme as a way of introducing programming.
Point being?
I doubt that Carnegie-Mellon teaches a course whose purpose is to specifically help you pass the MCSE.
Point being?
(If it does, I guarantee that I can find people in the department who're not very happy about it.)
I think you misunderstand why the great technical schools are so great. Rule 1: They seldom get caught up in the mental masturbation of the impractical. Having sold MIT to industry for 7 years in a past life I can safely say that its close ties to the practical concerns of industry are its greatest strength, and why an MIT education prepares students to be relevant to the real world. Hire somebody from a school more caught up in ivory tower snobbery, and you have to wait at least a year before they come up to speed.
Furthermore even in professional schools (medicine, law, etc), while the school may provide practical training, the faculty are still expected to participate in (and are likely to be primarily judged on) research. That's certainly true of both schools that you mention.
You use every misdirection debating technique in existence. Engineering research is hardly "academia". At least at MIT and to a lesser extent CMU, it is almost always looking toward a practical application. Net result: 4,000 MIT related companies. 12 Nobel prize winners on staff. The deepest industrial ties of any school in the world.
I stand by my comment that, charter's notwithstanding, universities are not supposed to be in the business of vocational training. (Although they are often pushed in that direction, particularly by students and parents of students who go there to help job prospects.)
Sigh. Yes. They are not votech schools teaching welding and oil filter replacement.
This might work out, or might not. I'm inclined towards pessimism, but have no real evidence supporting that.
It would make life easier for companies that need to hire Perl programmers for basic routine programming jobs. Its not a guru netting tool, but gurus are not what many companies need. I would love to have somebody to take over many of the mundane Perl tasks I have at my company one day. I don't need to hire a Randal or a Larry nearly as much as I need somebody basically trained. Somebody I can trust to do basic level tasks so I can focus on growth and marketing.
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