It depends far too much on your border conditions. For example, LZO does compress not very well, but it is fast and has only a 64kB footprint. Hence it gets used in space-probes where the choice is to compress with this or throw the data away. On the other hand, if you distribute pre-compressed software or data to multiple targets, even the difference between 15.0% and 15.1% can matter, if it is, day 15.0% in 20 seconds and 15.1 in 10 Minutes.

Hence a single score is completely unsuitable to address the "quality" of the algorithm, because there is no single benchmark scenario.

And a solvent! Probably causes cancer or something...

There is no possibility for a useful single metric. The question does obviously not apply to the problem. Unfortunately, most journals do not accept negative results, which is one of the reasons for the sad state of affairs in CS. For those that do, the reviewers would call this one very likely "trivially obvious", which it is.

A "combined score" for speed and ratio is useless, as that relation is not linear.

Of course it is a gateway drug! And before that, obviously sugar. Which is why sugar should urgently be outlawed!

Incidentally, sugar and fat kill a lot more people than all illegal drugs combined. And seriously, the whole concept of a "gateway drug" has been discredited quite some time ago. People will escalate to a certain level, regardless of the steps before that. But the authoritarian scum that just have to force their views on people can of course not admit anything like that.

Pathetic.

Just my point. They have an very hard selection process, but their CS education sucks. (Yes, I know several. They say the same.) Compare that to education that sucks and no selection process, and you end up at the state I described.

It is not something everyone can do. Some companies wise up and the usual underperformers do not have any reasonable job-perspective except becoming managers. Most will not manage that either. What you need to find is an employer that understands CS worker productivity.

As a plain, fact-ignoring statistic, yes. Women and men that actively follow comparable career paths have the same salaries. Of course, if you, say, take a 2 year timeout for having kids, that negatively affects your salary and your skills. But gender gap in pay in CS is a myth, which becomes obvious as soon as you look at the actual data. The Issue is that many women chose to offer less value to employers. And that is quite fine and, I expect, what they consider is the best option. It does come with a price though.

I completely agree that CS should be treated like engineering, because, when done right, it is engineering. Anything else just produces incompetent people that have no real skills. Many "programmers" actually have negative productivity, because what they create is so bad. And many programmers are functionally illiterate, with inability to both write reasonable documentation and inability to learn something new from a book. Any good engineer can do these things. Yet for one of the most critical technological fields today, we basically ran with mediocre technicians instead of actual engineers that have a clue about their field.

I also find your other points compelling.

Actually, in CS it is not. It costs huge amounts of money. The problem is that most companies do not have people that actually understand what is going on.

As somebody with quite a bit of experience teaching CS, I call that bullshit. Maybe becoming an MD has gotten so easy you can do it with aptitude and dedication only, but being any good in the CS fields requires passion in addition. Those that do not have that passion will become the "engineers" that create messes so expensive to clean up, their overall productivity is hugely negative and not employing them safes you a lot of money. Of course there are a lot of those cretins in the industry, but one reason for all this off-shoring is that management realizes that can hire an incompetent cretin somewhere else in the world far cheaper than domestically.

Well, next step is obviously to remove any aptitude and performance requirements at all and give everybody a degree. No more CS grads shortage. Of course, any Indian IIT CS bachelor will wipe the floor with those "graduates" as IIT has a really, really hard selection process.

So, you are claiming 3 Hydrogen explosions at Fukushima, one nearly avoided Hydrogen explosion at TMI and one steam explosion at Chernobyl are not "Boom".

Really, there is nothing to say about cretins like you other than that they should never be allowed out or on the Internet unsupervised.

Have you seen the videos from Fuckushima? Or read about what happened in Chernobyl? Or almost happened in TMI? Apparently not.

Go away troll, you are as clueless as you are stupid and arrogant.