Although I am a college grad (B.A. in English), your post made me think back to
a time at ILOG in France in which some HR geek from the company pointed out to
me at a large convention (with some derision) that I was the only person in the
company without a Ph.D.
I got a chance to remind him of that later during the convention, when it
became obvious that the only person in the building who had suggested out loud
that it really *wasn't* a good idea to rip off the entire interface of a
Microsoft product and pass it off as your own was me.
Yes, they really did that, and yes, the *only* person in the building who was
on record as having spoken up about it and having told them not to do it was
me. If the Microsoft rep who spotted it on a screen in our booth hadn't had a
sense of humor and told them to "take it down and never display it in public
again," these Ph.D.'s assumption that they "knew it all" could have cost the
company millions of dollars, or its very existence.
From: "Bhairitu [email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 6:57 PM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Now we know why NEO is so bad
It was designed by a bunch of college grads:
http://www.salon.com/2014/12/23/gwyneth_paltrow_reportedly_not_educated_enough_for_marissa_mayer/
A college degree or education won't make you a great programmer any more
than a college degree in music will make you a great musician. I know
many a college dropout who has done well in life. I also know people
with advanced degrees who don't know their field very well at all. Hey,
but they have those letters after their name. Yup, a degree doesn't say
much especially if you graduated with a C- average.
In the computer science field, very few colleges were teaching it right
until about 2000. I even sat on a an computer science advisory board
for one college where the profs, scared of losing their tenure, needed
help with setting up a curriculum that would get their graduates jobs.
By the mid 1990s programming in Pascal was not going to cut it. I hired
more people who were self taught out of books and magazines than folks
with a computer science degree. These people were very productive.
I'm not against education by any means but I have for colleges being
about getting an eduction and not just a piece of paper.
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