As opposed to a cameraman who just happened to be flying by as Rossy just happened to be flying by as two L-39C's just happened to be flying by and by some miracle they all wound up in the same shot? The shot is real, the three flew in such a way that all were captured by a single camera shot, nothing more is being claimed from what I can tell.

Look at Mark Zuckerberg, do you think he managed Facebook because of the superior comp-sci education he got at Harvard? No, it was because of the connections he made and the people he collaborated with. It's the same with any of the 'elite' schools, the real value is that you will either get to know some very smart people, or some people with access to a lot of money or ideally both that is the real payoff for going to such schools.

The other comments are correct that talent and a good mentor can give you what you need to build skill, and that the degree itself really just gets you into your first job with experience getting you your next job, but it's the connections these schools provide that help make the difference between getting a good job and building a world-class career or company.

Oh yes, and while we're at it we'll teach them all how to fix a car so they can call out their mechanic if they recommend un-needed repairs, and teach them all construction so they can better review the work of the guy who builds their next home, and we'll put them all through medical school so they can better hold their doctors to best practices.

Honestly, there's a point where you have to get off your high horse and realize that we have specializations for a reason, and it behooves those in the know on a given subject to realize that it's not practical for every user of their output to be an expert in their field, so the onus is on the experts to make it easy for the non-experts.

I go to textfiles.com and read some of the old docs I remember from my BBS days.

Would you have preferred I have said bazillions?

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Agreed, we have massive sites serving millions of requests a day using Open Source relational databases and yet it seems everyone wants to use NoSQL because it's the hip new thing.

Naturally I start thinking of this: http://xtranormal.com/watch/6995033