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Left to my own devices, that's pretty much how I design.
The exception is when I'm working with a large team on a huge project. Then the documentation features of UML and the heavy abstractions can *sometimes* be handy.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I totally agree. Have you seen my signature?
Bond
Keep all things as simple as possible, but no simpler. -said someone, somewhere
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And it only costs that much because of student loans. But at least the typical MIT degree teaches something useful.
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Anyone from a family that makes less than $100,000 a year is very likely to have their education paid for them. Having a multi-Billion dollar endowment allows MIT to subsidize most, if not all of their tuition and fees.
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I didn't realize this was typical at MIT, which must be in a minority of schools given all the student debt out there.
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obermd wrote: Anyone from a family that makes less than $100,000 a year is very likely to have their education paid for them
Please tell me that's an MIT thing, 'cuz I sure never received that check.
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Interesting, if a little long, article.
Sadly, the truth is, a degree, (particularly from a top University), is way too highly valued by most employers. I don't have a degree and, after being made redundant 8 years ago, I was dumbfounded to find that I was getting job application rejections because of this. To put this into context: I have been in IT for 40 years; ran a Software House for nearly 10 years; and was head of IT for a multi-national with a $Billion turn-over for 18 years.
The fact is, it's just lazy recruitment.
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5teveH wrote: I have been in IT for 40 years; ran a Software House for nearly 10 years; and was head of IT for a multi-national with a $Billion turn-over for 18 years.
"So what ? My automatic search algorithm did not find the degree in #+#+# that is required for the job from the SW department, as opposed to this fresh-from-the-university-still-drunk-from-spring-break underpaid junior, who will probably be hired for the job", says HR in probably most companies.
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I tend to think that it works both ways, if a company is not wiling to hire a person based on their experience and work ethic then it's probably not a company worth joining.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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As an MIT alumnus, a starting salary of $250K is definitely not worth it. However, MIT teaches it's students how to think through complex problems and solve them. These are skills that are worth a lot in today's society.
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That's what Master's programs are for. And most people do those while working full-time.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I did a couple of X-MIT online classes about advanced quantum mechanics.
In my experience, they suffer the same weakness as many of the other more prestigious US courses:
There is too much emphasis on the deep dive, something you should be doing in your spare time already, and very little on co-operation and navigating the actual scientific field.
Going to MIT in itself won't make you a great scientist, but it will give the the means to sell yourself at a higher price point, making it easier to procure a budget.
Taking a 100K loan and coming to Europe to study instead, will make you a more balanced scientist, but you will need to add at least one impressive internship to make it worth your while.
Pick your poison.
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I couldn't figure out why my onclick function was not being called when the element attached to it was clicked. I stared and stared at it..... Then I saw it said: onlick="......
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Freudian slip?
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I'm not sure what I find more amazing, that you remember a specific post from 2006, or that you actually found it
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Actually I was looking up "quine" using the CP "search engine" (triangle-shaped wheel) and had such a conniption fit over getting returns of cp pages that did not contain my search term that I was "debugging" the thing to see if I could MAKE IT FAIL!
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wanna test my code?
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well there's "depose" which makes "dipose" a similar non-sequitur
The Lounge[^] ...
So, no ... the hekura it
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Considering what the last 14 odd years have done to my body, I wouldn't mind going Back To The Future in 2006!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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