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Comment Re:Algorithms (Score 1) 836

by moo083 on Sunday November 15, 2009 @03:30PM (#30107848) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

I can't really explain how someone would get to grad school and not know how to code a linked list. And yes, there are exceptions. It all comes down to probabilities and when it comes to programming concepts, the odds are in favor of the person with a four year degree. That doesn't mean that you can't do without it, but the odds are lower.

Comment Re:Algorithms (Score 1) 836

by moo083 on Sunday November 15, 2009 @02:42PM (#30107374) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

Oh, you know what I'm trying to say. No need to spend time picking apart an analogy... :P

Comment Re:Algorithms (Score 2, Insightful) 836

by moo083 on Sunday November 15, 2009 @02:40PM (#30107344) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

Agreed. But it all comes down to probabilities. An English Major is more likely to write a successful book, but then there are many with no degree who have gone on to do great things...

Comment Re:Algorithms (Score 1) 836

by moo083 on Sunday November 15, 2009 @02:36PM (#30107290) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

I was making a generalization. There are certainly exceptions, such as yourself. I can only go on the experience I have. I was more talking about what you learn at a vocational school, not what you learn yourself later.

Comment Algorithms (Score 5, Insightful) 836

by moo083 on Sunday November 15, 2009 @02:28PM (#30107196) Attached to: Are You a Blue-Collar Or White-Collar Developer?

In my experience people who have gone to vocational schools do not have the same background in algorithms than do people who have gone to four year schools. They do not have as expansive of knowledge in data structures and sorting algorithms and the like. There are many jobs where optimizing is important and knowing which algorithm has the best run time in O() notation can be important. They may know Java, but that doesn't mean that they can code just as well. Just because someone knows how to use a typewriter doesn't mean they can write a book just as well as an English major.

Comment Re:what about darfur? (Score 3, Insightful) 290

by moo083 on Monday December 08, 2008 @07:41PM (#26041187) Attached to: Nobel Winner Says Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler

Thats because there is no internet in Darfur. At least, not easily accessible. Germany was a high tech country at the time of WWII.

Comment Re:Just curious... (Score 1) 153

by moo083 on Thursday December 04, 2008 @05:15PM (#25994489) Attached to: Saline Agriculture As the Future of Food

I guess you have to treat these people like alcoholics. The first step is admitted the world has a problem. The next step is to accept a higher power. Its not our fault. God did it. The third step is to turn our will over to God. I'm starting to get worried because I don't know what that means.

Feed Scientists convert glucose into fuel and polyesters (engadget.com)

From feed by engfeed on Saturday June 16, 2007 @01:32AM

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Glucose has been the building block for many zany creations 'round these parts, but using the widely available substance to create "products currently created from petroleum" has some fairly far reaching consequences. Gurus at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have reportedly "converted sugars ubiquitous in nature into a primary building block for fuel and polyesters," dubbed hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF). Aside from the obvious benefits of finding yet another renewable energy to tap into, learning to harness this power could give garb and plastic manufacturers new routes to source raw materials. So what do the creators themselves think? "The opportunities are endless" -- we say: prove it.

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