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Putting Rollerskates on a Cow… Not Always a Great Idea

Started by Kyle Brady · 9 months ago

What’s the old adage?  “You can put rollerskates on a cow, and it’s still just a cow.  With rollerskates.  But it’s not always a great idea.”  Never heard of it?  Probably because I just made it up.

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  • Tony

    9 months ago

    Having a degree is an excuse to get hired by an HR (one of those people who doesn't understand what Computer Science is) into one of those large corporate cubicle positions that pays well (it has to for anyone to put up with any of _that_) and chugs out the code that gets peer-reviewed... on The Daily WTF.

    Though the same type of person chasing to cash in on a career trend will be in the same sort of a mess in any other sufficiently technical field. The programming community takes a hit because it isn't a regulated profession (imagine the same type of people buying a job of a doctor or a lawyer with just a degree). Though by the looks of it, the video game dev colleges are even worse.
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  • Kyle Brady

    9 months ago

    Tony,

    True. I'm not saying they're not functional at some point.

    Just that
    a) they're likely to never be very good at it
    b) they'd never have gotten in the field if not for "Oh, what pays well these days?" at school

    No startups or basement AI for them.

    --Kyle
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  • Tony

    9 months ago

    Indeed. In my experience startup-level developers would prefer to stay out of large corporate environments (perhaps with an exception of dedicated R&D units). Still, banks seem to enjoy having software. I guess this explains why my online banking experience sucks so much.
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  • Kyle Brady

    9 months ago

    haha fair enough.

    --Kyle
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