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Ahh, good question! 3 college credits for ~250 hours. That's the incentive. One did it just for the experience, and regretted it.

Volunteering is something you do for a charity.

Second that. We had unpaid interns at my last job, and their work consisted of telemarketing, harvesting email addresses, web form spamming, data entry. It wouldn't be cost effecti…

"Web development sucks." Yes. It's so practical compared to old-school GUI development, and so it pulls you in and mushrooms into a scaling/integration/maintenance fiasco unless yo…

"Sorry, I don't know much about that. I'm just a programmer!"

Interesting... I hadn't heard of Siek's work before. A link: http://ecee.colorado.edu/~siek/gradualtyping.html

I'd want all of them on my team, but #4 makes the big bucks. (Looks like I'll never get rich :-)

I've seen some nice articles in LWN, but I'm not interested in Linux news per se. I'd suggest they drop the subscription model and narrow the focus, or move on to other things. It'…

> So, suddenly it all came together for me. He seems new to this stuff. Nothing really advanced here, but he brings up a big unresolved issue in language design in a way that proba…

Too much information, that's the problem. Just wait until people are actively spamming the surveillance system :-)

...using the Java Virtual Machine

I've done things like this in Scheme - not robustly, but it's worth pursuing IMHO. I can't stand math formulas in SEXP notation. Array/slice/hash lookup notation would be nice too.…

Umm... what's this scheme_make_pair(car,cdr) function in plt/src/mzscheme/src/list.c? That's a wart (the crisis is in my mind :-) It doesn't have to be that way: Clojure has abstra…

Heh... I know a guy who thinks he's too dumb to program in anything except Lisp (ALGOL syntax is hard! It's like math! :-)

He rambles a lot, but he's right about the need for a new Lisp, and refers to the ILC'05 presentations by Dussud, Baker, and McCarthy on "Re-inventing Lisp". Those are some pretty …

Right on - H1B is akin to indentured servitude. It's hard for the rest of us to compete with a captive work force.

Everyone is passing the buck... what's the connection between your investment and a productive enterprise somewhere? A long chain of financial games. Decisions are based on statist…

Thanks for depressing me ;-) -- by and large we're in the same sorry situation 9 years later, aren't we?

Oh yeah, software state machines are silly, considering that microprocessors are very efficient state machines. It's funny how algorithms that make perfect sense in Assembler can b…

I tend to agree with Alaric here, but reading this inspired me to take a look at design patterns, ironically. I've never studied design patterns per se in my two decades of program…

Interesting how so much money/power/responsibility is diluted and reconcentrated over and over in mutual funds, pensions, insurance companies, governments, etc. -- much like those …