I am so torn on this issue. We all know every fresh CS grad that walks into a junior role on our team knows basically nothing and needs significant mentoring to really have any useful skills. Yet there are so many important things they teach in the schools around data structures, computational analysis, and how to generally apply formal math to programming to achieve correctness as well as efficiency.

I just don't understand it I guess, how does one go from studying such important concepts to being completely incapable of applying them in the real world. I think the study of them is ever important so he should complete his CS degree, but he's not wrong in that he will still be useless when he walks out of the door with his diploma in hand and will need to be trained up from scratch all over again in the first 2 years in the real world.

My suggestion though: Finish your degree and create a portfolio of random crap and do everything you can to get recruited by MS/Apple/Google as you will get guaranteed training in proper skills at any of them (yes even MS, I did a 1 year contract stent there and half the people I worked with had CS Phds and were smart as can be, I learned a lot from that gig, there's plenty of notables who worked up through MS as well even if you don't like their products)

It's a lot harder to get into other countries, especially with the shit education we have because we were raised here. And that's the people who even had the money to afford one anyway (aka GenX and before, the rest of us are in huge debt or for future generations when loans get tight, just out of luck)

ever since I realized that's the inevitable conclusion of that mule thing I can't stop imagining one of those in "search mode" chasing somebody down. That is some scary shit.

None. But my company is a proven brain damagedly stupid company, so there's that.

Trying? Sorry, they won the war in the mid-thousands when linux became trendy so the hipsters came over but decided it was hard and so they remodeled it in the image of what they're used to. Now it's like some half-windows-half-mac cluster. Works well I'm not complaining, but it has gone so far off the highway from it's initial purpose it's hilarious. BSD is the only real option anymore that is still fullfilling the idea of "a bunch of independent pieces that work on their own". Linux is now one big thing that works altogether, and if all pieces of the system aren't working in lock-step huge portions of it will come crashing down (even including the console soon). Just like windows. Just like mac. Whatever, it's a good OS just like windows and just like macOS, but it's no longer a purpose-built OS for stability and modularity like it was. Nowadays if you want a different desktop environment you need a completely different distro for it to work. Just let that fact sink in, and remember what changing desktop-environments meant back around '99. The war was lost, only BSD is left standing; and only because it isn't trendy since the hipsters presume it's just like linux so they don't bother.

Could you imagine actually having your terminal displayed in stereoscopic 3D? Watching your DMESG print up all sticking out 3 feet off your screen in your face. I totally disagree with what this dude is doing, but that aside; that would just be totally fucking cool. :D

I'm ok with that.

I just noticed an *LPT* port card is installed on my work desktop! What brain damage did my IT team have to think my .NET development workstation would have any reason for an *LPT* port! Just hilarious.

Or to be more succinct... http://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html linux has become worse to become better.

I have already accepted that the linux I grew up on in the late nineties was killed (sometime in the mid-thousands I think, I was too busy working in .NET at the time to notice until I moved back to linux ~2009) and replaced by a completely opaque box, where everyone chides you for even thinking of recompiling your kernel ever because it will break everything, just choose one of the pre-compiled ones made by your linux masters.

I remember a beautiful simple system where everyone recompiled their kernels, it was simple and expected; and the system's components were independent enough to roll with changes like this, where running console-only didn't make you out to be a weirdo and switching versions of X wouldn't break every piece of your system, rather it would just switch your X.

Recently the linux I have met is a nice windows replacement. It acts like windows, I use it like windows, and the whole thing breaks if I try to change anything under the hood like windows.

Perhaps it's time to go back to FreeBSD, where simplicity was always the purpose, I sure hope in my time away from it (10 years now) it hasn't been won over by the dark side like linux was...

Seriously, it takes the criminal actively walking into the courthouse and proclaiming himself an enormous felon and requesting jail-time for prosecution to happen when they're rich. And "prosecution" that results in a fine is so non-punitive it's mind-melting.

This person stole 100 million dollars, bad person! 20 million dollar fine! Yeah, fines work real well. Oh fine more like "Bad person: 120 million dollar fine!" (all the while the person made 88 million off their 100 million over the 2 decades they were stealing it by way of interest and investments we poor people don't have access to), poor guy only walks away 68 million ahead.. stealing is dangerous, you could get caught and then...punished? no no.. what do we call that... shamed? Yeah that's it. Steal lots of money, get publically shamed. That's about the long and the short of it..

Sadly that is literally the argument of a lot of people "Regulation doesn't work so stop regulating!" translation: "Regulation has loopholes that are being exploited, so stop regulating and they'll stop exploiting loopholes!"... people actually think this way, but you can't blame them, if they're stupid enough to not realize why that is brain-damagingly backwards, they're stupid enough to think that way...

Would never pass congress, those loopholes are important to ensure the regulation doesn't stop people from making tons of money from committing fraudulent acts, err rather, those loopholes ensure the country's economy doesn't slow.

In all honesty, I have just realized a simple fact, America is a country with 2 economies. The rich people's economy and everybody elses, they follow 100% different rules, their money comes from 100% different sources, they are literally 2 distinct economies. The only way they intermix is that the rich one get's all it's money through tricking and extorting the money from the other one (and others, internationally), and the other one generates money for itself by internally ebbing the money about as well as importing money from other countries through valuable exports. The country's GDP comes from everyone's, however the country's GDP goes to the rich people's.

Viewing them as two totally separate and distinct economies the same way you view america's economy and mexico's economy actually makes a lot more sense...

...the trick I guess is that one of the economies has a monomorphic (or more truly catamorphic) relationship to the other one, where we need it to be homomorphic...hylomorphic might also be workable...

The balance has been struck: Deregulation is currently at a point where the economy for really rich people like federal politicians is *great* and Regulation is at a point where the entire public isn't 100% certain that more would be a good thing so the politicians aren't being bothered by their constituents to increase it (which would slow the economy for really rich people, but speed it up for the rest of us as we have more money in our pockets when we're not being gang-banged by the rich people's economy).

SERIOUSLY. Find someone who actually knows programming to get your kid writing code, this hands down has the highest transmission rate of The Bug. Someone who knows how getting him to do some piddly crap is more likely to give him The Bug than anything else hands down. Once he has The Bug, everything else will be taken care of. He'll plug himself into the internet and start downloading all on his own directly into his brain pan. CS and etc as very useful as they are, are no where near as valuable to someone who is "interested" as contracting The Bug.