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Or Winamp.
Would you buy a computer to use Winamp? Or, perhaps more fair today: would you switch OSs to use it?
Is that close enough?
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Or (dare I say it out loud)... Porn.
Again, would you BUY a computer to view porn?
It struck me after reading the article that the company who has solved synchronization is Apple. All of the data people really care about is on their iPhone/iPod. Contacts, photos, music, TV shows, movies, email, web access. When you think of it, iTunes main purpose is syncing and organizing your media. And with iTunes Store seamlessly syncs a lot of the data people care about from the Internet, also (for pay movies…
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I think it will have a big, negative impact on increasing quality.
how do you reason that?
So if we increase salaries a lot and this results in more people going into CS, I think it's pretty safe to say most of those additional recruits will be more in it for the money and less because that's what they should pursue, thus reducing the overall quality.
If programmer salaries went to 200k overnight, do you think the quality of undergrads would go up or down?
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how do you reason that?
I think a career in CS is already sufficiently attractive, for monetary and other considerations, that those who have a great potential and a passion for it already choose to pursue it. So if we increase salaries a lot and this results in more people going into CS, I think it's pretty safe to say most of those additional recruits will be more in it for the money and less because that's what they should pursue, thus r…
[edit] If anything, the new influx of interested students would maybe counter a little the need for CS departments to dumb down the curriculum in order to stay above whatever arbitrary number. Maybe it would result in less JavaSchools. ;) [/edit]
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Or Winamp.
Would you buy a computer to use Winamp? Or, perhaps more fair today: would you switch OSs to use it?
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Would you buy a computer to use Winamp? Or, perhaps more fair today: would you switch OSs to use it?
No way. I use Amarok at home and love it. At work I have to use Windows, and used to be happy with iTunes - until I started having to update it every week (60MB download, no I don't want Safari, no I don't want to see the Quicktime icon, I'll check the box asking not to be propmted when there's a new version - oh, you're going to tell me anyway). Anyway, I thought I'd try Winamp again (I used it about seven years ago…
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Or Winamp.
Would you buy a computer to use Winamp? Or, perhaps more fair today: would you switch OSs to use it?
I have friends that do the same and I've also seen a number of restaurants in Vancouver (Rugby Club), Montreal (Bières et Compagnie), and Haifa (Stella's?) that use it too (among other places).
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I also enjoyed the vast majority of the article, but I have to admit the last paragraph was annoying. It just seems like everything Joel writes these days (since he started his Road Show) is Submarine.[1] I realize everyone is going to talk about what they are doing, and Joel does Fog Creek, but I can't help getting that greasy used-car salesman feeling. I don't own Joel, and he owes me nothing, but it still makes me…
I guess blog posts are often glass half-empty/half-full thingies. It's totally valid to feel that the annoyance of the empty part of the glass outweighs the enjoyment of the half-full part. On my good days, I feel a lot more charitable about such things than on my bad days. It's dogs are sages all over again: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/03/programmers-are-sages.ht...
My friend said to me, "I think the weather's trippy." I said, "No, man, it's not the weather that's trippy, perhaps it is the way that we perceive it that is indeed trippy." Then I thought, "Man, I should've just said, 'Yeah.'"
Anyway, enjoy the coffee!