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You're making writing multi-threaded code sound like a herculean task. Sure, doing MT with mutexes is a pain, but programming with actors (message passing) is simpler. You can easily scale this for variable number of cores.

I assume the differentiating factor here is the quality of the courses, Georgia Tech is ranked in top 10 for CS grad school. Also your tuition was low due to the fact that you were an in state student, out of state tuition is much more expensive.

See http://sympy.org/en/index.html. I've been using this for a while.

I'm not sure why you're talking about "firing" customers. That might be the equivalent of teachers firing student's parents? Anyways, what I was trying to get at is that people working at a company choose to work there, MOST of the time they are doing something they are good at. Compare this to students, teachers do not get to choose their students from a set of applicants. Also oftentimes students do not see the benefit of being in school. I am not opposed to the study, I was only addressing the point you made about comparing a school to your company. I do not think it is a very good comparison.

You do however get to control who your engineers are. It's rather difficult for a teacher to "fire" a student.