Unless education really is just supposed to be about daycare and busywork I think we should focus on quality more than quantity. Those that actually need the extra time can ruin their summers with summer classes.

All that hand-wringing and extra effort when half the class is destined for Wall-Mart. Educate them more, it will make a difference!

Not.

Maybe that's true for shitty schools.

I remember always getting an ass-load of homework the first day back. You were expected to already know what you'd learned before.

For us, getting back into the swing of things took exactly 24 hours.

Citation needed. Care to share?

Dude. You can filter all game posts pretty easy. And I don't know how long it's been since you've used Facebook, but you don't need to unfriend people just to stop following their posts. I've found those two features perfectly adequate for my filtering needs.

that I don't have the choice to tell Facebook to just stop randomly hiding shit on me.

Some of us don't have 1200 "friends" and don't want a filter.

I thought there had to be more than 3 macro-scale space dimensions to allow the whole 'finite but unbounded' thing. You know, so you can't sail off the edge of space?

why they feel the need to public data requiring sanitation in the first place?

If the failure a result of a code change, why was there no unit test to catch it?

And if there was no code change, why would you set up such a publish process to silently continue if such a critical step failed?

I don't know what crappy tools you've been using, bub, but the Visual Studio UI is roughly the same as it was 10 years ago (and no complaints).

Everyone has a smartphone these days. And I don't know about you, but I like the idea of not having to wait 20 minutes to check in or out while some dude at the front of the line wastes everyone's time by being "social".

I think the entire approach is wrong-headed. Why would it be acceptable for someone who's attempting to recover from addiction hang out with people who are still using - people who would encourage them to use again, in spite of the typically massive damage to their so-called "friend's" life that landed them in rehab in the first place?

Really? Could a question like, "Is it raining?", which presumably would be answered by a yes or a no, really be considered rude?

I'm at a total loss to see how any interpretation of your assertion could be true.

Could you give us a simple and clear example, and then provide another in the context of a work environment, where management is expected and acceptable?

... and yet every article here about Stallman is titled with "RMS", as if most educated people wouldn't see that as Root Mean Square instead of referring to some random hairy dude.

Anyone familiar with the BS processes and positions the grow up around SDLC knows this will never, ever happen. Businesses love to highly overcomplicate software development, often turning simple, single person projects into impossible to complete, 20+ person clusterf*cks.

And it's too bad - most of the work I've encountered suggests that a ton of developers do indeed need to be kicked out of the industry.

Actually, the web is an enormous stack of kluges piled on top of a standard applied at an entirely inappropriate level of abstraction.

The problem isn't with programming or its tools, it's that HTML desperately needs to be replaced with something lower-level.

I agree that too many people get into the field that shouldn't, but you're out of line using your example to generalize to all autodidacts. The most brilliant people in any field are by definition autodidacts, because what education offers falls short of their capabilities.

Also, CS teaches absolutely nothing about good real-world design. The most perverse architectures I've seen have come from the highly educated - and I say that being highly educated myself. To borrow an old military cliche, many with high degrees fall into the "diligent but stupid" camp.