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Re: Putting Rollerskates on a Cow… Not Always a Great Idea

bradyk — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:15:21 -0000

haha fair enough.

--Kyle

Re: Putting Rollerskates on a Cow… Not Always a Great Idea

Tony — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:44:05 -0000

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.

Re: Putting Rollerskates on a Cow… Not Always a Great Idea

bradyk — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:21:25 -0000

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

Re: Putting Rollerskates on a Cow… Not Always a Great Idea

Tony — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:13:19 -0000

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.