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- From: mpower@ee.net (MPower 'your future today' -- Mark Otero)
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- Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions
- Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 08:49:31 GMT
- Organization: MPower 'your future today'
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- The original point of this thread speaks to the preconceived
- value, by corporate America, of a college degree in computer
- science.
-
- My own cynical view, regarding the universities and colleges,
- addresses not the students, but the system! Just today I heard a
- newscast about a medical school struggling with the root problem --
- money. (A problem not uncommon to us all.) Todays eductational system
- is ill prepared to function as a business entity and the people will
- suffer for it.
-
- What about VU -- Virtual University: free to all and comprised of all.
-
- >>
- >>What about showing up with a good WORKING program?
- >>
- >>Isn't that some measure of ability ?
-
- >That just shows he knows how to copy, or cp as the case may be.
-
- Do what I do, test them on the spot! That will weed out the duds.
-
- Personally, I do not run a social club; and team consensus will not
- pay my bills. Nor theirs. While the team debates the corporate theory
- of why they should do this or that, the competition has six persons
- coding and one person leading. (Drucker's rule of seven.)
-
- When was the last time corporate America turned out an original
- software product that had mass appeal and changed all lives? When was
- the last time you bought a theory? What you want is a product -- one
- that will make a positive impact on your life, make your job easier,
- and make you more productive. These products are created
- by THE LOAN WOLF who sees and hears what the packs are saying.
- ( A master of communications does not always speak with words.)
-
- Once the wolf creates such a product, the wolf's interest is quickly
- lost. This is when the DEGREES are needed. Who else is mindless enough
- to day in and day out surround themselves in the same drab pigeon
- hole, communicating and being communicated to in the same old
- chatter... "he did this.. she did that... oh no, we downsized lasted
- year not again, will I be axed... and so on... and on.
-
- Perhaps that is why the wolf works alone...
- to garner his thoughts and filter out the packs noise.
-
- Coding is mechanical! Development an art and Creativity RARE!
-
- >>
- >>Doesn't that help to reveal where a persons strengths, weaknesses,
- >>interests lie ?
-
- >No. Only actual behavior in a real work environment can show that.
- >Many people even fool themselves. So a good assessment requires a
- >probationary period.
-
- Probationary period? I have not heard that one in a while.
- What will you do when ALL employees are nothing but IP addresses
- and name aliases?
-
- You do not think so?
- This is not fantasy, it is based on
- that five letter word that drives all change -- money.
-
- How can a corporation compete with a virtual firm?
- The VFirm has no employees and none of the expensive consuming
- infrastructures. It is a lean mean LOAN WOLF, that in a moments
- inspiration can called up an army of virtual workers, all ready and
- waiting, to function as a virtual team. Each member fulfills there
- domain requirement -- be it underwriting, contract review,
- or freight movement. When the market dries up, so what, the VFirm
- functions on a day by day or even moment by moment basis.
-
- Do not get caught as those before you -- dad worked 27 years for xyz
- and guess what he got -- REMOVE ALL PRECONCEPTIONS AND START ANEW.
-
- >>
- >>Would a well developed program not speak louder than a degree ?
-
- I wonder what that professor thought when they should him that
- newfangled piece of spaghetti code that later became known as
- Visicalc. Gosh, the student even dropped out of college -- probably
- should have stayed and got the degree, do you think?
-
- >Since my experience covers both the trained and the self-taught, I
- >can say it is very easy to miss the obvious if you teach yourself,
-
- Do not great discoveries come from the wolf to smart to learn the
- obvious, therefore, creating what is not obvious to the pack.
-
- >especially if you are creative. The degree shows you have at least
- >been exposed to the basics, have at least the minimal ability to
- >follow directions. I am constantly amazed at how rare that ability
- >is.
- >>
- >>My tone is intended to be more inquisitive than suggestive.
-
- >Since you are asking, the worst spaghetti code I have ever seen
- >came from the self-taught. As well as the second worst. The
- >third worst came from someone who previously had been an assembler
- >programmer. A hint about appropriate training there.
-
- The best training for a potential programmer: eat, drink, sleep, and
- re-code spaghetti code -- yes it is painful, but no pain no gain. I
- want to thank all the spaghetti coders I have followed, for they have
- forged upon me a greater skill.
-
- "bits and bytes may break my code but comments will never hurt me."
- Mark Otero
-
- I am out of wind, so, I will put up my sail and drop my anchor.
-
- Best wishes,
- Mark
-
-
- !!!!!
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