[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

[Jim Kinney]

On September 18, 2015 9:20:04 AM EDT, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>Interestihng essay.  BTW I have a 1980 degree in Classical Languages, a
>near 30-year career in programming doing about everything from writing
>C
>under MS-DOS to GIS database work, and I CAN in fact use a soldering
>iron.
>The only real limit to your knowledge is the time you're willing to put
>in.

+1!!
>
>-- CHS
>
>
>On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org>
>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:10:32PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
>> > Performance of Rails doesn't matter for most companies. They just
>don't
>> > get the traffic.  For internal web-app development I think Ruby and
>> > rails is extremely productive. A larger, faster server for $10K
>more is
>> > cheaper than programming time. I've seen this solution many, many
>times.
>> >
>> > If you are FB, Twitter, Google - that matters, but if you are
>writing an
>> > internal app for GA-Power employees, it doesn't.
>>
>> That reminds me of this essay:
>>
>>   "Don't use Hadoop -- your data isn't that big"
>>
>>   https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
>>
>> As much as I dislike the "rails" development paradigm, I can't argue
>> with its programmer productivity, and it is able to scale higher than
>> most folks/organizations will ever need.
>>
>>  - Solomon
>> --
>> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
>> Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
>> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
>>
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