There must always be a master, an apprentice, and the apprentice's secret apprentice.

To piss off the whiny Michael Crichtons still left in the world.

They do the same thing to creationist research! These so-called "scientists" just don't like having their dogma challenged! It's a conspiracy!

Well, given that CS degrees lately consist of having students reimplement all the sorting methods learned since the 1970s, I can certainly understand why CS degrees are less desirable.

Sorting algorithms are year one stuff until you get into analyzing their efficiency. Any school that thinks that is the pinnacle of CS is a diploma mill, and so will of course produce mediocre programmers. Only people outside the field are fooled by those degrees.

I know many college kids who took up CS classes, who thought they were going to learn to code, learn awesome things, and it turned out to have much less to do with computers, and much more to do with general math/logic.

Oh. You're whining because basic theory is just too hard.

Imagine what Slashdot in 1999 would have made of the headline "US Military Drones Migrating To Linux".

"it's not worth losing your life over

They should be telling that to the thieves.

This sounds suspiciously like the recommendation that the only thing holding the Macintosh back was its inability to run Apple II programs.

No, it's like the only thing holding back the Apple II is the inability to run Macintosh programs. The thing that does more still does more.

Tablets are great for leisure, but horrible for work. Touch screens are better for some activities, but are ridiculous for typing, and don't give the fine control of a mouse.

These moronic pundits need to stop pretending that every new thing is going to replace every old thing. Sometimes the new thing is really the old thing, and sometimes they just keep existing, side by side.

If someone who doesn't like me makes an "anonymous" call to 911 to report that I'm running meth lab in my garage, does that also give the cops the right to ransack my house looking for a meth lab?

Yes, if subsequent investigation leads them to believe you're running a meth lab, they'll get a warrant and ransack your meth lab.

Why the fuck are people acting like anonymous tips are a new thing? Do you actually believe they act on every tip and do so blindly? Does this magic 911 phone technology make it all too scary for you?

The difference being, the A in CS will usually be an objective measurement, whereas the A in English will be dependent on adopting the grader's ideological hobbyhorse and imitating the style of whatever postmodernist gobbledygook is currently popular.

Those upper level english courses require a lot of rigors thinking

I'm sure they did.

Yup.

It's like these people have never heard of Handango. They're so ignorant it is funny.

This is the same mentality of those people who are scared of Google Glass and go all Internet tough guy about what they'd do to people wearing one.

People who believe in pecking orders, ie. bullies, identify with authority, even if they rebel against it, and those in authority believe in pecking orders, and so see bullying as enforcing the natural order.

The unifying attribute of all people like this is that they are ashamed of themselves. Not in any way that might modify their beliefs or actions, but in a way that they blame others for their faults and react belligerently to anyone who might capture evidence of them. So of course they're going to punish the kid for recording.

Obama said that to get people like Eich to vote for him. After he was elected, he rightly threw them under the bus.

It must be terrible being bigots on the wrong side of history. No one gives you credit for standing up for what you believe in, all they think about is how you're the kind of douchebag who would take away something that costs you nothing but makes so many people so happy.

However, the days of 2008 where one could put out 99 cent fart apps and rake in the cash, or the days of 2012 where one could put out a free-to-play, pay-to-win game are now behind us.

No more than a tiny fraction, perhaps a percent of a precent, of mobile developers were "raking in the cash" making novelty apps and pay to win games. The overwhelming majority of mobile developers had full time jobs writing software for established companies then, as they do now.

And it's funny that you mentioned embedded programming. Back in the PDA days it was considered embedded programming, so we'd hire anyone with embedded experience, whether it was microcontrollers, or set-top boxes, or cell phones, or what have you. It didn't really matter what you worked on, only that you knew how to write C code for a constrained environment and only thought about suicide when dealing with the overtly complicated toolchains.

Apple and Google made it too easy.

You made a reference to Robocop, which I like, because I understand it, and Hunter S. Thompson, which I don't like, because I'm stupid and reading is hard.

This summary is bad and the article is bad and it would be only be funny if written by the people at cracked.com. And what does "downing their tools" mean? That sounds made up.