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Email Providers with Pay-As-You-Go Pricing(blog.jeffreymcmanus.com)
3 points by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago|0 comments
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
They don't use the same CSS or the same content, although they do share design elements. So what. Lots of sites share design elements, because those design elements happen to work. You need to revisit the definition of the word "cloning."
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Thoughts on the new PayPal Developer Web Site(blog.jeffreymcmanus.com)
4 points by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago|1 comments
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Demonstrably wrong. Developers (like anyone) are happy to pay for things if they can identify value. The problem is with the seller, not the buyer: people keep trying to sell things to developers that they can more easily build themselves.
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Do you cringe and blame your ISP every time you receive an email spam?
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
If you do the arithmetic, yes there will. At any rate, you don't need to be a millionaire to do venture investing.
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Since it's possible to earn a degree online today, I'm not sure this is the case. Top-tier universities are faced with a significant innovator's dilemma problem here: they want to enforce their duopoly on the granting of degrees and they do
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
I'm not sure that beating the traditional university is the objective or that it's even necessary. Remember that the essence of a disruptive product is that it's a little bit worse and (at least) a little bit cheaper than the incumbent prod
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
This kind of thing is one of the reasons why Georgia Tech is consistently among the top 10 computer science schools in the nation.
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Uh, no. Did you even read the post?
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Server has been migrated to WPEngine, which I am now deeply in love with.
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
This isn't about whatever language is the flavor of the month, although seeing universities teach a language that is less than 20 years old would be nice. It's more about CS programs that produce graduates who have no practical ability to c
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
if the university purports to teach this stuff, they should hire people who actually know how to teach it. if their tenured PhDs aren't cutting it, they should look elsewhere. (this is how i got my university teaching job.)
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Not instead of. In addition to.
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
No argument there. Like I say in the post, I'm all in favor of the goodness of the basics. I just think that giving undergrads all theory and very little practice is not optimal, and they should have the opportunity to go minimal on theory
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
> I don't think that catering to what undergrads want is a good thing, at all that's not what i proposed at all. what i propose is to bring curriculum into the 21st century, and to call out the fact that cargo cult thinking and poor org
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
i agree that what i am proposing does not require a 4-year degree. i don't think that most undergraduates should spend four years in school. "no one respects a vocational education" is cargo cult thinking. elite universities don't write wor
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Wait -- no engineering is possible? None at all? Really? Then how do you explain the success of high school dropout Benjamin Franklin? The point of my post is not that theory is worthless (which I call out several times in the post). It's r
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
the issue has to do with apache and my cheap-ass underpowered personal server, not wordpress. but gracias for the link!
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
did you actually read the post? i actually pre-rebutted both of your arguments. i understand quite well what a CS program is, since (as i pointed out in the post) i've been a student in three university CS programs and taught coding at a fo
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
Looks like ye olde blog is a bit slammed at the moment, apologies. (If only my university CS program taught me how to be a Wordpress sysadmin!)
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More Universities Should Shut Down Their Computer Science Programs(blog.jeffreymcmanus.com)
27 points by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago|41 comments
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by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago
This is like saying every plumber needs to know how to mine copper and smelt it so they can manufacture their own pipes. There are different kinds of software engineers, and the kind that you happen to be may not necessarily be the kind tha
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How Public Speaking is Like Landing on an Aircraft Carrier(blog.jeffreymcmanus.com)
1 points by jeffreymcmanus 14y ago|0 comments
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Comment Systems Ask For Too Many Permissions(blog.jeffreymcmanus.com)
2 points by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago|0 comments
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
The problem is that most people in academic computer science programs really want to learn software engineering. The related problem is that most employers want to hire software engineers rather than computer scientists.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
that's kind of the point.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It's not "tacky," it's business. Products are not your friends. They don't have feelings.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
You have the tail wagging the dog there.
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by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
That's not really true. It's not challenging to find CS courses online, and the year I spent in a CS graduate program (through Colorado State), the cost per course unit for CS was the same as any humanities course.

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