Raphael Mankin wrote:
Adam Bower wrote:
Mills wrote:
Raphael Mankin wrote:
<flamewar> As an employer of programmers of some 30 years experience I find that CS graduates are generally a dead loss. I would much rather employ English or Philosophy graduates: at least they know that they don't know. They also tend to have some knowledge of the world outside computers, unlike the CS graduates who can best be described as pig ignorant. </flamewar>
Please apologize for these comments.
Why the hell should anyone apologize for that!! It is an opinion, of which others don't agree, anyway here is my take on this I wasn't going to reply as I didn't want to generate any flamebait but however
You have go me on my hobby horse so ...
^^ try got
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[snipped stuff about "modern" teaching] [snipped stuff about grammar] I subscribed to this mailing list to receive emails about LINUX, not about people who did not go to University, envious of the those who have. Mr Mankin flames all CS students by calling them "pig ignorant" in a self styled flamewar. Mr Mankin tells CS students they do not know about grammar, while in the same email he wrongly calls university lecturers, "teachers". This helps to show the small knowledge of universities the writers have. Hiring English or Philosophy graduates instead of CS is wrong, and disgusting. CS students are interested in computers and therefore their work. They also have more knowledge about computers and have a personality profile that is better for doing programming. It sounds as though Mr Mankin is just hiring people who are like him, this is common in business. It would be much better to hire on ability. Writing English and computer software are very different, and use different skills. Mr Mankin attacks universities but uses Linux, a clone of UNIX which is an OS made popular by it's use in universities. Linus was a CS student himself. So what happens to CS students who have worked at zero pay for several years including weeks of 50+ hours, they are, in your view, supposed to accept the dole queue. Please apologize or action may be taken.