Oh? Didn't know they made you the authority on all things funny. Someone call the internet, there is a new boss in town!

It is called a sense of humor? Maybe you should try finding your's again...

Not sure what university you went to or degree you got, but I actually have a CS degree from UNT (which is on the list) and no those numbers are pretty damn accurate (they might even be low for a 20 year ROI, running paper napkin math mine is actually a lot higher atm). Just because you have a bad anecdotal experience does not mean that is the baseline for everyone.

Yes, mine is anecdotal too, but the numbers they posted back me up and may even undersell my experience so far.

I'll give you that, but I would at least argue the rates are noticeably lower for tier 1 universities. I do remember a couple of Comp Sci professors in my college days that I am fairly certain had no business near a classroom, but that was definitely the exception (thank god I suppose) not the norm there.

I feel your pain. Worse yet we deploy software in airports, these are all EXTREMELY high availability systems that if they are out for even 20 minutes during operations you are talking about millions in cost. I think everyone at my company loathes DST with a great passion...

If that is the case, then there should be more argument to abolish DST. That shit creates so much extra logic when writing programs it is pathetic...

No. No it wouldn't. We artificially connect our schedules to the hourly time frame. DST just complicates things to an unnecessary level (in the US at least, in other countries I can't say much) for adjustment and specifically writing software that doesn't lose it's damn mind when the adjustments happen. I have applied so many fucking patches to systems (some of them neither I nor my company even wrote!) that I could scream and I've only been doing professional software development for 3 years. Twice a year I have to be extra fucking alert for a string of service calls that will undoubtedly come in and we only stay in standard time for a grand total of 4 months!

Not only that, there are already multiple states in the US that DO NOT observe DST and they get along just fine. I disagree whole-heartedly and wish to god they would abolish this constant shifting practice. If it saves so much money to be on DST then lets do it year round and save even more on not having to complicate tech systems.

I've seen plenty of people that were excellent at math (some working on an MS in it...) that couldn't write a worth a damn program if their life depended on it. Not saying the OP is necessarily that though. It does give you a very firm background for CS (just getting my BS I ended up one class short of a math minor anyway, and even then I had to learn basic multi-variable calculus and applied differential equations when I took physics), but there are still quite a number of high level CS concepts one should learn. Again, the math background makes them SIGNIFICANTLY easier to grasp, but taking classes or doing course-type related CS would still be quite valuable.

I don't know what your university was doing then, the courses at mine were quite valuable and informative. The bullshit I have seen posted online is exactly that. Granted, not ALL of it is bullshit, but a lot of it. I now have a niece that is interested in learning about programming and computer science and I shudder to think what ridiculous buzzword crap people are going to try and direct her towards. Luckily I actually have the necessary background to weed out some of that bullshit and she is knows this.

No. Just straight up no. Any idiot can learn how to fumble their way through a programming language's syntax and API (albeit it may take them a while in some instances), but if you want to actually be a real computer scientist or software engineer you need the theory. I've been programming for 10 years now, 3 of it beyond getting my bachelor's degree and the code i write now is worlds better namely because of the information I learned while working through my BS in Comp Sci.

... RFID is orders of magnitude less secure than a regular magnetic strip. The card stripe has such a small field that you have to swipe it in order to get the information transmitted, while an RFID chip can be several feet away from the requesting field source and still have a valid request for information. There have been numerous demonstrations that showcase this vulnerability.

Now if you want to be a bit paranoid you can get RFID shielded wallet (or make one yourself, it just requires some aluminum foil lining the wallet) and pretty much kill this entirely. I'm not saying this method of validation is BAD, but it does have a downside of which most people are not aware.

Most people don't use their strict credit cards at an ATM (check cards are obviously different...) because of the ridiculous rates they charge for cash advances and therefore have not set up or are even aware of that feature. I have multiple credit lines that I have never done that with because I have no desire to use my card for that purpose.

His rendering engines for Id were actually quite advanced. He did a panel on graphics lighting at Quakecon and it was damn interesting. I don't care much for graphics programming (business logic is my favored area), but there was some really cool stuff he was bringing up throughout that panel. Rage had some great engine innovations and work, it just wasn't near as good on the storyboard side imho.

I do agree though that I think the parent companies were really holding him back. All in all I hate to see Carmack leave Id but I think it was the best move for him and really look forward to seeing his work with OR.

Honestly, I wasn't that sold on anyone being able to do decent VR, but hearing him at Quakecon last year he was very excited about it and had some very interesting discussions and ideas. I can't wait to see some demos that the general public can play around with because with him working on it I have hope it has a real chance.

He does great programming now. One of his panels at Quakecon last year he talked about doing Wolfenstein in friggin Haskell just as a research project....