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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.…

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 thing…

Do you cringe and blame your ISP every time you receive an email spam?

If you do the arithmetic, yes there will. At any rate, you don't need to be a millionaire to do venture investing.

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 …

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…

This kind of thing is one of the reasons why Georgia Tech is consistently among the top 10 computer science schools in the nation.

Uh, no. Did you even read the post?

Server has been migrated to WPEngine, which I am now deeply in love with.

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 progra…

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. (thi…

Not instead of. In addition to.

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, a…

> 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…

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…

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 wo…

the issue has to do with apache and my cheap-ass underpowered personal server, not wordpress. but gracias for the link!

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 stude…

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!)

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 ki…