There are still plenty of schools with respectable CS curricula that would meet these standards. I was only saying that the pool of CS grads is increasingly diluted by folks coming out of lesser programs.

As a very basic heuristic filter: If there are no course requirements for discrete mathematics or computational theory, then it's not a real CS program.

Someone has an awfully fucking large ax to grind, don't they? Let's see an EE build Google Maps from scratch with his cute little books about hash tables and UNIX Networking and shitty FEM code scrapped together in FORTRAN. Just pick up some quality books on the theory and application of ____________ and you can build incredibly complex, massive-scale information systems using the power of numerical analysis and computational fluid dynamics.

It's not apples and oranges, it's apples and fucking Jupiter.

If you are as good as you think you are, find a way to show it. Seriously, there is a major disconnect between your situation and the skill set you claim to have. What's missing? A degree from CMU and 10 thousand hours of coding don't amount to anything if, for example, you just suck at problem-solving.

There are plenty of relevant positions to fill and you remain unemployed.

So here's a test of your problem-solving skills: Figure out what you're doing wrong.

It seems that an increasing proportion of Computer Science resumes I receive are from recent graduates who don't know much at all about computer science. They've done a little Java or C++ or VB programming, they've explored such in-depth topics as linked lists and arrays, and they've heard of quicksort.

Anything from complexity analysis, language classification, (heaven forbid) Turing machines, to operating systems, memory management, distributed systems, or synchronization? Hell, hell no.

It is infinitely more important to be an interesting person than it is to be a well-mannered person.

The ability to socialize and represent oneself well in social situations is important, but it's not that important. If it is that important to you, your intelligence or engineering prowess may not be as great as you'd like to think.

Fact is, falling somewhere in between Social Retard and Master of Etiquette is just fine for most people.

Etiquette is silly anyway. I care what kind of stories you tell and how you view the world around you, not how you hold your fucking fork.

THANK YOU. Regardless of the specific subject at hand, GP has completely overlooked that fact that optimization is dependent upon constraints.

Maybe I don't give a good goddamn about the temperature or tenderness of my food: I just want to forget about cutting it.

Yes it can work elsewhere

No it can't work everywhere.

In short: It doesn't scale.

It strikes me that you may not, in fact, understand the function of a minimum wage.

Moderately funny, but more important, probably not an entirely inaccurate reflection of how the lobby-drones in Congress will some day try to swing the discussion as the dinosaur companies reel and flail and squirm and die.

It is in Google's best interest to have a world that is as fully connected as possible. Driving down the artificially inflated price of consumer-grade bandwidth is a win for Google and a win for everyone outside of the colluding or monopolistic telcos.

This is guaranteed to be true. Younger developers exist, can develop software, and are generally cheaper than older developers. At some point it makes sense - if nothing else for the sake of efficiency - to adopt tools that people already know, especially if this means dumping fewer training resources into new hires.

There is a reason Oracle dumps billions of dollars into universities who train kids to program Java.

I agree completely - it's not intuitive. But once you have the "Aha!" moment and everything makes sense, you realize that it's not only brilliant, but also really difficult to explain to someone else who doesn't get it yet. As someone once infamously tweeted (it's a joke):

But really, think in graphs.

I have a remote VPS in a data center somewhere in New Jersey (Linode rules), and I keep a copy there of anything worthwhile. I let them back the whole system up regularly for me, assuming that they know what they're doing and won't lose my data. So far so good.

An addendum regarding the meaninglessness of GPA as a performance metric: I'm speaking only from anecdotal evidence, which is of course just as good as hard data.

I have observed a stronger correlation between high GPA and manipulative capacity than I have observed between high GPA and productive capacity.