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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by krschultz on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @01:48PM (#434012)
You are an idiot if you believe that and will probably always be a CS guy. What does the best programmer make at your company? $200,000? $300,000? So what. Thats pocket change compared to c-level executive pay. The CEO at my company is making $500,000 and he graduated with a communications degree from a college that doesn't even exist any more it was so crappy. What he did do was work his ass off after that for 28 years at the place working from being a salesman, all the way up.

You know what would really impeede you from doing that? Telling everyone else in the company you work with that their degree is inferior to yours.

Especially when we are talking CS, which I don't think anyone can claim is a difficult degree. Physics, Chemistry, real engineering, those are hard. But just because you call yourself a software engineer and you have a BS in CS, doesn't make you an engineer, so get off the high horse.

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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by lacker on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:30PM (#434321)
If you don't think CS is a difficult degree, you are talking about something quite different than what I went through.
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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by raffi on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @02:18PM (#434075)
I appreciate your rant and I agree with your points. I'm not saying a CS degree is the hardest thing to obtain--it certainly isn't trivial though. Please refrain from attacking an entire field because of a troll.
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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by krschultz on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @03:09PM (#434185)
It's not attacking the field, it is a fact. A CS degree is not an engineering degree. That is what a CE degree is. Don't confuse the two. He rants about communications majors stopping math after high school. What does CS require? Calc, discrete, and prob/stat? An engineer degree is going to require 2-3 more classes than that in math. So the sword cuts both ways.
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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by lacker on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:28PM (#434318)
This really varies from place to place. Many CS degrees are engineering degrees - that's how it works at Berkeley, for example.
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