rhewt - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Especially if they are training developers (Score 2, Insightful) 141

by rhewt on Friday January 08, 2010 @04:46PM (#30699708) Attached to: Managing Young Sys Admins At Oregon State Open Source Lab

I would have to agree with your statement. As a soon-to-be graduate of Virginia Tech in Computer Science and Finance, the CS department's curriculum has about 2.5 years of programming before you even see any SA classes (of which cover a very limited area). It's almost as though the message is that one needs to be a good programmer (perhaps exposed programmer would be more appropriate) in order to be a good system administrator, which I don't believe is the case. I thoroughly enjoy net/sys administration and am a terrible programmer. It would certainly be nice to see these two coexist without one being such a prerequisite. It would also be nice for courses to prepare the students better for certifications, which hold a lot of weight in the corporate IT world.

Comment heat == marijuana? (Score 3, Insightful) 282

by rhewt on Tuesday January 05, 2010 @03:39PM (#30659254) Attached to: Does Cheap Tech Undermine Legal Privacy Protections?

Even if they could use a thermal imaging device, how would that solidify their accusations exactly?

Why Coder Pay Isn't Proportional To Productivity 597

Posted by timothy on Wednesday December 23, 2009 @03:27PM from the productivity-is-a-blunt-edged-word dept.

theodp writes "John D. Cook takes a stab at explaining why programmers are not paid in proportion to their productivity. The basic problem, Cook explains, is that extreme programmer productivity may not be obvious. A salesman who sells 10x as much as his peers will be noticed, and compensated accordingly. And if a bricklayer were 10x more productive than his peers, this would be obvious too (it doesn't happen). But the best programmers do not write 10x as many lines of code; nor do they work 10x as many hours. Programmers are most effective when they avoid writing code. An über-programmer, Cook explains, is likely to be someone who stares quietly into space and then says 'Hmm. I think I've seen something like this before.'"

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