richieb

Experience is no substitute for competence..

The reason I work on my own projects because I enjoy doing them. Why does everything have to be for "structured learning"? I bet you learn and discover more just randomly fiddling around....

Silly.... If you can't remember what you had for lunch last Monday, why eat?

Keep in mind that everyone is a Dilbert at something....

FORTRAN IV and IBM/360 :)

Bank in the 90s I worked for a small derivative shop in NYC. The lowest bonus we ever got was 100% of annual salary. This was not a boring project either - we had a network of Suns and all code was written in Eiffel and C.

Really it is the private sector employees that make much less than public employees. Except of course the CEOs and other way over paid executives.....

Perhaps we should ask the students and student parents? After all the parents are paying the bill (even when it's indirect via taxes)

Aleph Null?

Here are my rules:

1. Don't worry, be happy. 2. If you don't use it, you loose it. 3. Take some chances

....richie

Frankly, dinosaurs were much more successful as a species. They were around for about 200 million years. Humans have been around barely 20 million years and time during which civilization existed is even smaller (5000 years?).

Hardly a triumph.

a)estimate right when given the chance,

First look up the definition of "estimate".

Second the shorter the estimate the more accurate it will be. So, I a developer says I can do this in a day that's probably mostly right.

But if he says that he can build something in 3 months, that's most definitely wrong.

Wahoo!!!

A lot the research that goes into truly innovative treatments is already funded by the government. See what NIH pays for. The big companies look for stuff that they can market and sell fast (eg. Viagra in new rainbow color). In a lot of the pharmaceutical companies spent more on marketing than research.

Especially for things that are not profitable (eg. flu shots, or malaria vaccine).

A lot the research that goes into truly innovative treatments is already funded by the government. See what NIH pays for. The big companies look for stuff that they can market and sell fast (eg. Viagra in new rainbow color). In a lot of the pharmaceutical companies spent more on marketing than research.

Especially for things that are not profitable (eg. flu shots, or malaria vaccine).

Totally generic article, does not really say anything.

Cringley had a similar article few days ago: http://www.cringely.com/2010/02/the-cringely-2010-not-in-sil...

And how many possible combination were there to try? Even then this would cover just one class of errors.

Automated tests are great (I use them all the time). But not all situations can be covered in a test - specially when there is concurrency involved.

Not really. As Dijistra said: "Testing only proves existence of errors, not their absense."

"Why did you wait until Uni to learn to program?"

Because at that time computers took entire floor of building and costs millions of dollars. By the time I got my hands on Apple II I was in graduate school...

I've been a programmer for over 30 years and only one of my jobs was found via a recruiter. All others were via connections..

Let's see: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, john Coltrane... to name just a few that will be talked about and listened to 100 years from now....

"War and Peace" Tolstoy "Wind< Sand and Stars" Saint Exupery

Direct person-to-person electronic payments.

Take couple of days off and take her to Paris. Demonstrate your knowledge of French.... :-)

I have case of homeopathic beer. It's $5 per bottle.. write me.... ;)

Emacs is an operating system, cleverly disguised as an editor.....

One problem is that they will not get good developers. According to Joel Spolsky, good developers never look for jobs (they re always working), so they are not likely to work for free...