1 million lines of code written and deployed into production. I'll match that against anyone's degrees (including my own).
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Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
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Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#112I attended a networking event recently where I was pitching to a guy who had a high rank in our local university's IT program and is respected as an entrepreneur also. Anyway, he was challenging me on everything I was saying (which I thanked him for at the end), and one question was: "If what you are doing is so great, why aren't the big boys already doing it." My first response was that the key is to do it better, w…
I don't quite understand what he meant, as "working on a doctorate" isn't an answer to "why aren't the big boys already doing it?" However, Larry Page got enormous benefits from his PhD: he met Sergey; he had connection with Andy Bechtolsheim; great people around him; and Stanford supported his patent (they own it). Actually, these are mainly contacts acquired through Stanford (similar to "location"), not of a PhD pr…
>>I don't quite understand what he meant, as "working on a doctorate" isn't an answer to "why aren't the big boys already doing it?"
It was a response to my assertion that his argument would have been wrong if I were Larry and it were 10 years ago. Essentially he was saying: "You can't compare you and Larry because he's smarter than you." That may be true, but people dumber than me have created successful companies...I think.
>>However, Larry Page got enormous benefits from his PhD
True, but that wasn't the point he was making.
>>BTW: I had a very critical advisor like that, and it was really unpleasant. Not everything he said was helpful or relevant - but some were. And at the end, I was rightfully grateful - and also rightfully annoyed.
I responded to his (slightly drunken) derision very positively and always had a fantastic comeback, except for the "and...?" response. I was actually very appreciative of his criticism and challenging posture because most people just shine you on when they hear your pitch and tell you everything sounds fantastic. In the end, I won him over and he said he would help me as long as I got a few other influential people on board.
Even though I think he's a bit narrow minded, I liked his no-bullshit attitude and honesty. As I said, I genuinely thanked him for challenging me and giving me the opportunity to change his mind rather than just blow me off.
Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#1131 million lines of code written and deployed into production. I'll match that against anyone's degrees (including my own).
I'll substitute that with a (better) metric:
100+ million users have utilized code that I've written.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I bailed out of high school after three years and went to college. I tried to avoid getting my high school diploma (skipped my graduation), but they mailed it to me. I tried to avoid getting my college diploma (skipped my graduation) but they mailed it to me. I've got to come up with better tactics to avoid credentials...
It turns out if you actually attend graduation, you don't really get your diploma then, either. It's too soon for them to know whether you passed your finals or not. So they end up mailing the diploma even if you went. You do, however, manage to get out of spending an afternoon wearing robes and a squareish hat.
I got a diploma at my graduation. It was two full weeks after finals.
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#115Well, I won't actually be finished until a few hours from now after my exam, but close enough.
OK, done. :-)
Now, on to grad school.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
But it's a D. There are other D's besides a Ph.D.: there's the Psy.D and others: (from Wikipedia) The Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree is an applied doctorate on the same level as (in alphabetical order) the D.B.A. (Doctor of Business Administration), D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery), D.Div. (Doctor of Divinity), D.M. (Doctor of Ministry), D.M.F.T. (Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy), N.D. (Doctor of Naturop…
It's even tricker because there are a couple other doctoral law degrees that can be awarded in the United States (S.J.D. and LL.D.) that are much closer in spirit to the Ph.D., as they are research degrees. Although in fairness, in many cases they are given as honorary degrees. Additionally, consider the LL.M. degree. It further complicates things because it is awarded after the J.D.
Yes, if I had an LL.D. degree, I would have blushed and chosen "Doctorate" on the poll.
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#117A J.D. degree from the United States is not exactly a master's degree, and not a doctorate in the way a Ph.D. degree is, so I chose "Other."
But it's a D. There are other D's besides a Ph.D.: there's the Psy.D and others: (from Wikipedia) The Doctor of Psychology (Psy.D.) degree is an applied doctorate on the same level as (in alphabetical order) the D.B.A. (Doctor of Business Administration), D.D.S. (Doctor of Dental Surgery), D.Div. (Doctor of Divinity), D.M. (Doctor of Ministry), D.M.F.T. (Doctor of Marriage and Family Therapy), N.D. (Doctor of Naturop…
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assigned too many times to maintainance projects, I think I've deleted as many lines as I've written.
My favourite interview question for developers is "How many lines of code have you deleted?" Lots of junior developers boast about KLOC they have written. But the more code, the more bugs. I'm interested in knowing if the developer has lived with code, not just shipped it and moved on to the next project.
I'm both a programmer for and an administrator for network infrastructure at my university. So the code that I deploy I have to live with. A lot of it was written before I got there and I probably really have deleted just about as many lines as I have written. Decade-old Perl code usually needs to be updated. And now with us switching to IPv6, a lot of things need changing.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
It turns out if you actually attend graduation, you don't really get your diploma then, either. It's too soon for them to know whether you passed your finals or not. So they end up mailing the diploma even if you went. You do, however, manage to get out of spending an afternoon wearing robes and a squareish hat.
I got a diploma at my graduation. It was two full weeks after finals.
I wonder how common that is. At my school, most people finish their last final on Friday, go to graduation on Saturday, and leave town on Sunday.
It is a college town, though.
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#120Doctorate is not PhD, MD, or JD. please correct your poll
LLD is a doctorate too (Doctor of Laws) - the next step up from the LLM (Master of Laws) - to be a solicitor or a barrister, one needs at least an LLB (Bachelor of Laws).
I (almost) decided to study law once which is how I know. I was so enamored with Cole Turner (Julian McMahon's character in 'Charmed') I very nearly decided to pursue an online law degree, since Cole was a lawyer. Who knows. Maybe I still will one of these days, but since all my experience is in SQA, it would not be the most logical thing in the world in the long run I don't think.
But anyway, LLD is also another kind of doctorate, along with Ph.D. MD, DDS, DVM, etc.