On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Nick Wienholt <[email protected]> wrote: > I spent my whole masters degree (numerical modelling of the effects of beach > dewatering in a micro-tidal environment) doing this type of stuff, and then > my first two years out of uni doing the same thing (98 and 99) (1- and 2-D > numerical modelling to allow the GIS overlay of the effects of various flood > plain drainage systems to financial asses cost versus damage prevention). > > Because of the DotCom boom, it was about three times more rewarding to do > junk software like CRUD screens in ADO and DAO instead of the really > complex, intellectually meaningful development. I still think there is a > doubling of salary to do enterprise software over engineering software, and > the economic drivers are hard to ignore long-term. > > Doing fun, interesting software with tools like Matlab just isn't as > financially well rewarded, and hence tends to be the domain of the hobbyist > and academic from what I've seen. > > Nick
Yeah, I did as much maths as I could fit in after doing all the computing options available during my degree, including overloading in Honours with a Chaos Theory course. In employment the highest maths I've used is some extended trigonometry to determine how to display a segment of a circle using Win32API bounding box-based parameters at the the left of facsimile ATO tax forms. Then we found the API wasn't supported by all printer drivers and got permission to simplify it down to a triangle :-( When I have "hobby" time I play with DC Proof (http://www.dcproof.com/). -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.)
