That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. If you are making it that inconvenient to get at your data why not just delete it? Basically it just makes it look like you are hiding illegal activities to do something like that.

Completely agree. The first run through is to get it working with simple, very easy to understand code. Absolutely nothing fancy. Once it works, THEN you check the performance and optimize only those modules that need it. Simple code is far more likely to be bug free than come convoluted pile of packed code that no one but the writer understands. For some reason coders take pride in the fact that they can write code that works but no one else can read (even though the simple version would have taken an hour and they took a week). Baffling.

No I'm not talking about sloppy bad code with bugs that allow exploits. I'm talking functioning *working* code that's been *tested* to be correct, but don't happen to match the aesthetics standards, or 'wow that's a cool way of doing it' standard of a developer that thinks hes top shit. Problems have to be fixed, but changing code to make it more elegant or efficient when there is no performance reason to, or making it run in 3 lines of convoluted code instead of 10 or 20 of very clear easy to understand code is just moronic.

The problem comes down to you get a developer who believes the beauty of the code is the only thing worth looking at. He then gets assigned to add some features to existing code, looks at *other* parts of the code that don't need to be changed, are completed and are fully tested, reacts with horror saying 'what idiot wrote this piece of crap?!?' and then proceeds to spend a month rewriting it, breaking multiple other things in the process cause he doesn't understand the code. THATS the problem and it happens ALL the time.

Irrelevant. You either are a doctor and can legitimately be called one or you are a fraud. Same goes for engineer. Now is it possible for an untrained person to have the skillset of a doctor or an engineer? A long shot but possible yes. But that's not the issue.

I get over 600fps on minesweeper

I was going to ask the same question. Basically there will never be games on Linux because of this hippie / commie 'everythings gotta b e open source and free!' attitude. Can't make any money if your products are all copied and stolen.

Only if they lived there their entire lives in poverty.

Which is EXACTLY why software development programs tend to be massively over budget and often don't work properly at the end of the day. Like who gives a rats ass if the matrix multiply is the most efficient it can possibly be if the overall system still meets the requirements with an inefficient matrix multiply?? You people spend so much time optimizing the academic worthless shit that there is no time left to actually finish the project, and then you blame management for unrealistic deadlines. Just get it working, make sure the code is clean and easy to understand, and move on to the next task!

In my undergrad, there was only about 4 courses that were the same in the Cs and CompEng programs. And the CS people tended to do incredibly poorly in them as they lacked the background courses.