Fixed it for myself. Sometimes people need to proofread better so they don't seem stupid.

A push poll uses manipulative or loaded questions. Like asking "Do you like Obamacare" while not specifying if you think it goes too far or not far enough. A quick glance at these questions doesn't reveal any loaded or manipulative questions to me.

Someone people seem stupid because they are, not because a poll is being manipulative.

Yes. I trust no claim of a 100% accurate measurement of intelligence, but trust that many measurements of intelligence are at least able to measure large differences in intelligence. A standard deviation is a big difference, so I do believe a 15 point difference in IQ is going to have a great deal of predictive ability regarding someone's ability to learn and understand information.

Yes. I have worked with PhD students and professional researchers, and I have worked with "average" people, and there is a big difference in intelligence. It is hard to quantify the difference, but it is there.

I guess it depends on what you mean by minor role. There are likely very few prominent scientists who are less than one standard deviation smarter than the average person. In this context intelligence has a very major role. But once you are at least this smart, access to education and hard work will have far more to do with your success than raw intelligence. In this context it has a very minor role.

It is similar to how beauty impacted how I evaluated potential romantic partners. There was a minimal level of attractiveness before I would contemplate starting a romantic relationship with someone. This is probably a 7 out of 10 in quantitative terms. But after reaching this threshold, beauty has almost no impact on how overall attractive a woman is to me. Intelligence, humor, shared interests and beliefs, etc. are far more important. Success in most careers that demand a certain level of intelligence is just about the same in my opinion.

Two great careers for software developers who don't really like writing software are project management and business analyst. Both are very necessary in almost any IT group, and having software development experience will be an asset in both. Analysts that can write SQL and fully understand object modeling are rare and valuable, as are project managers who understand the software development life cycle from the viewpoint of developers.

UoP degree holding candidates should simply be treated the same as self taught candidates. Up until recently there were no other options to get BS degrees online or at night school for the vast majority of majors, so students were forced to attend diploma mills like UoP or Devry. To get past HR filters schools like UoP were the only choice for many people.

I got my BS degree from UoP for these very reasons, but I followed it up with a MS degree from a real school. Even the MS degree wasn't that useful for someone self-taught and motivated (I could have taught all but 3 of my 13 classes), but I knew I wouldn't want UoP on my resume in the future because of employers that would just black ball me.

As someone who did attend, you are correct that the degrees given by UoP are worthless as anything but a way to get past HR resume filters.

I had no other option in 2009 other than an online degree because I needed to work full time. Standard brick and mortar schools didn't offer online or night school BS programs in anything but a handful of degrees (oddly enough none of them IT related). Today that is no longer the case, so there really is no reason to attend UoP anymore. They simply prey on people with underhanded recruiting, and the world will be a better place when the school is just shut down.

They offered a much needed service 5 years ago because no worthwhile schools were doing it. I was already self taught so I didn't need an education; I just needed a degree. I also decided to get a Masters degree from a real school (plenty of colleges offer good nigh and weekend MS degrees) so I no longer even mention UoP on my resume.

If you actually attended both UoP and any state school, you would understand the difference. I already was self educated so the lack of rigor wasn't a problem (I literally just needed the piece of paper / diploma), but it was truly a waste of time for anyone trying to learn a trade.

To put it in context, here are the 5 assignments I had in my second semester SQL class at UoP. They constituted almost 100% of the grade (the rest was just participation in forums). One assignment was due each week of the 5 week class.

1) Create a database (literally just a CREATE DATABASE command).
2) Create three tables
3) Create foreign key relationships between the tables
4) Populate the tables with data from a CSV file
5) Create a report listing the data ina tabular format

It is neither, UoP is at relative risk because it provides little to no value to students. The only value it provides is giving a degree that can pass through an HR filter, and this usually only works when the filter doesn't pay attention to the institution name. Anyone willing to hire a UoP graduate is likely willing to hire someone without a degree as well.

The majority of government subsidies all private colleges receive today are in the form of government backed student loans. This is probably the majority of subsidies for public schools at this point as well. So UoP receives plenty of government subsidies. They price their classes so around 95% of the tuition can be paid with Stafford loans. They even do tricks like filing for student loans more frequently than once a year to get more money from the government (not sure why this works, but it does).

No, another very valid reason not to use copyleft code is because you are developing proprietary software where you do not intend to release the source code. Do you truly believe everyone developing closed source proprietary software is a sociopath? I am not sure even Richard Stallman thinks that, and I thought his was the most extreme opinion in the free software community.

I am developing software that takes use of many open libraries, but only ones that are truly open. This is because I currently intend to release the software with a dual license similar to MySQL. If I can find a way to fund the project another way I will, because I would prefer the software to be completely free, although I don't want to back myself into a corner and limit my options in the future by using GPL code.

While you are likely trolling, no one is suggesting failing companies should be propped up with public money. But successful companies still often have many failed projects, and this is especially true for any company which relies heavily on R&D. Like they say, if you aren't failing you aren't innovating. A solvent company needs to pay for its failed R&D projects with its successful projects or it would go under.

It is very similar to running a VC company. They obviously don't think ever venture will be profitable, but they are hoping to make an overall profit on those 20% of companies that actually succeed.

I assume it takes a month because all of the background checks take two weeks and then they have to wait for the employee to give the current employer a two week notice. That is what happened in a company change I made earlier this year, although it only took a week for the background checks.

If you look at the listing of 20 tech positions, the Software Engineer position is a strange outlier. Its 35 day duration is almost 7 days higher than the #2 position, Senior Applications Developer, which is 28.3 days. The rest of the time-to-hire durations group together much nicer, which the overall trend being more senior positions taking longer and entry level positions taking less time.

So the duration for senior level tech positions appears to be around 27-28 days, which is what the summary should have focused on.

I originally thought the warning meant pregnant women are dangerous.

Yes.

Sorry I guess I am a bit too old and still don't think of mobile when I say cross-platform. But not old enough to immediately think embedded when saying cross-platform. I have been living purely in the desktop / server world for over a decade and that is where my project resides as well.

The project is very similar to writing an database management system. I didn't want to get too much into the details so people aren't commenting about the virtues of the project itself.

There is no UI component; it could be thought of as a cloud service.

My perfect solution would be developing it in C# while having complete control over memory allocation and release. I have done extensive testing using System.GC.Collect() to manually control garbage collection with no luck.

I started programming with C++ in high school and began my career with the language so I'm not too worried about moving back to the language, but I realize I am far more competent with higher level languages right now.