Thiel on 60 minutes

Re:Thiel on 60 minutes by nickbarnwell on Monday May 21, 2012 @12:12AM (#4001248)

That's true, but doing so leaves you in the same position as any high school graduate with regard to being able to list a degree on your resume. When companies are able to filter based on what you have learned X years of coruses might be a distinction, but in the present system it is only possible to have a very coarse-grained view, and in the current system

   has_degree = lambda years, total: years == total
   has_degree(3,4)
   => False

Edit: Renamed method attended_college method to has_degree to better reflect functionality.

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Re:Thiel on 60 minutes by lukatmyshu on Monday May 21, 2012 @12:48AM (#4001329)

Not necessarily true. I 'attended' college for 4.5 years, completed 140% of the required credits to graduate but I'm technically 3 classes shy of my degree. I left school in 2003.

Suffice it to say, I don't think has_degree can be implemented as a one-liner.

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Re:Thiel on 60 minutes by nickbarnwell on Monday May 21, 2012 @01:00AM (#4001357)

That's true of many things, and often those that can shouldn't. It does, however, capture the sentiment of those who believe that not having a Bachelors degree renders you an unemployable member of the lowest castes of society.

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Re:Thiel on 60 minutes by mparlane on Monday May 21, 2012 @03:28AM (#4001740)

Of course everyone must know someone who has attended Uni/college and dropped out. I know a guy who I would classify as smarter than me. Dropped out in his third year, didn't help that he was dyslexic.

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Re:Thiel on 60 minutes by base698 on Monday May 21, 2012 @10:14AM (#4002924)

My wife went to undergrad for 3 years and has an undergrad degree. You're program doesn't account for credit hours or degree specific degree requirements.

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