Another interesting article: What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?&_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?&_r=1 What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be ... http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?&_r=1 The inside story of how Yahoo’s C.E.O. lost her way. View on www.nytimes.com http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?&_r=1 Preview by Yahoo
---In [email protected], <[email protected]> wrote : 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/ 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.
