There is no natural law

Yes, that is correct.

$389 monthly payment

lol, that is a poor person's car.

It's funny to watch right wingers shit on people only slightly poorer than themselves to pretend they're not the same as the "47%".

I can't wait to kill commies with a rave gun!

Wait, are you implying the current crop of new MMOs are what the market wants? lol.

They more likely canned it because it too closely resembled one of the stinkers you mentioned.

Who is giving away their time to code review the work of thousands of neophyte programmers?

Sounds to me more like the blind leading the blind.

I'm like this guy, wanted to be an astronomer but went into CS because it was the lazy easy thing.

Now I'm probably going to retire in a few years and would like to do something that matters before I'm too dumb and slow. I doubt I'll ever learn enough physics to advance the science, but I've seen what passes for software in academic settings, and I could certainly make the software suck less.

So what kind of software does astronomy need?

Impressive. You have weaponized STEM envy.

Bitch, please.

If you're going to lawyer on technicalities, at least know what the fuck is being discussed.

That has nothing to do with this. But it does demonstrate how fucking clueless your conventional wisdom is.

Everyone who makes a comment about how this "disproves" global warming is a drooling moron.

Be damn careful what you wish for. Be DAMN CAREFUL!!!!

WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

Sure thing, bro! On a BlackBerry! In 2008!

You'll also note they mentioned T-Mobile explicitly in the presentation in regard to this. Apparently "Apple makes it usable" with T-Mobile doing all the work.

Harvey-Mudd graduate! We've got a Harvey-Mudd graduate over here!

See, nobody cares.

I know, but US News stupidly doesn't rank undergrad CS, only computer engineering.

Wrong video.

When people call themselves "coders", it always reminds of that scene in Jurassic Park, where the miner foreman says of the world famous paleontologist: "Grant's like me, he's a digger."

Yup. Totally the same profession.

By Sturgeon's Law, most colleges that offer CS degrees are diploma mills. That isn't to say they're all scams, and you could certainly learn how to program well despite your shitty education, because after all, you really learn how to program on your own in any case, but simply because they teach things like Java and SQL, instead of things like actual fucking CS, you're not going to learn how to solve interesting software problems. You're going to learn how to be cogs in a corporate hierarchy and do what the people who inspired Dilbert ask you to do, valuing keywords on your resume instead of demonstrable achievements.

But if you got a CS degree from one of the schools near the front of this list, it's a pretty good bet you're not a retard, and if even if you're not yet a great programmer, at least you're not one of morons who can't pass fizzbuzz, and we can assume you'll learn on the job and have the theoretical background to keep up.

"Oh, but I'm such a great programmer and I learned all that theory stuff on my own and you can't judge me!"

Who said I was? You're the one framing it like that. Every good programmer is an autodidactic dilettante in many things. You have to be, because every job requires you inhale a bunch of domain knowledge about the real-world problem you're solving in addition to the technology you're using. You're not special.

But the people who spent four, or five, or ten years surrounded by the some of the smartest people their age doing nothing but having fun and (mostly) learning what interests them is going to be a lot more well rounded than the kid who went chasing dollars right after high school. All else being equal, the kid who went to a good school is better at this than the kid who didn't.

The vast, vast majority of tech engineers that I talked to who are from the United States are very supportive of bringing in people from other countries because they want to work with the very best."

He's right, I have said that. Of course, I always follow it with "but only if they have unrestricted visas that give them the same freedom I have to shop the market and work for whomever they want", and I suspect everyone he's talked to (presuming he isn't making it up) have said something similar.

Because when the best of the best make $200k a year, it kicks the wind of out the whiners who complain about the the average programmer salary. But when they work for $80k and they can't switch jobs, that depresses my salary, and that is precisely why lying fuckwits like Joe Green and Mark Zuckerberg want to bring them here.