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Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors by cowholio4 on Monday April 23, 2012 @09:55AM (#3878786)
Eh... I wouldn't write off the author that easily. I had him as a professor at UC Davis.

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/matloff.html

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Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors by whimsy on Monday April 23, 2012 @10:29AM (#3878948)
Perhaps, but he's no English major - didn't support his thesis.
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Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors by Magnin on Monday April 23, 2012 @11:38AM (#3879292)
He doesn't work for one either: his boss (Chancellor) is an EE. http://chancellor.ucdavis.edu/about/index.html
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Re:Software Engineers Will Work One Day For English Majors by jroseattle on Tuesday April 24, 2012 @09:04AM (#3883718)
Lots of credentials, but I don't see much in the way of real-world technology experience working in the field. Not to knock the guy, but his only vantage point is academia and government. He's certainly well publicized (gets his name in the paper a lot), but it just doesn't add any credibility to his story.
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