Re:10000 things all CS students should do before graduating
by presidentender on Friday June 24, 2011 @04:05PM
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That is definitely true. But how many compiler and VM jobs are there? How many web monkey jobs are there? It's like automotive engineers, as opposed to mechanics and drivers.
Now, I realize that we're being trained as automotive engineers, but most of us get jobs driving. I think the blog post's advice is much more useful for that.
Re:10000 things all CS students should do before graduating
by demian on Friday June 24, 2011 @05:23PM
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Good analogy, but then developers are more mechanics than drivers.
You can use your cool and deep automotive engineering knowledge to "do mechanics", but most of the time is not efficient cost/benefit wise. Most of the time it's more important to get the thing running in order to start the business.
Re:10000 things all CS students should do before graduating
by presidentender on Friday June 24, 2011 @05:52PM
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That is what I am trying to say.
I'de bet most of the guys that programmed the operating system you were running when writing that post got paid for they job. The same goes for people developing compilers or VMs, like, you know, the one Python/PHP runs on... and don't get me started on database servers.