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Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 recall Larry learning anything from doing a PhD itself, as opposed to doing the work independently." Seeing as one major focus of a PhD is to learn to do independent research, this statement is essentially vacuous. It also disregards the influence on his thinking process from his advisor (Winograd) and fellow graduate students.
You missed "great people around him".
The distinction is not essentially vacuous: it's possible for the learning of "how to do independent research" to be itself largely independent, e.g. Edison and Einstein.
I said I don't recall Larry talking about this anywhere - can you show where he does? Specifically, about how doing the PhD helped this specific person to learn to do independent research. I'm interested in this.
Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#123Earlier 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…
Seriously.....Doctor of Sacred Music?
Is that the same thing as Doctor of Ministry?
Guess it depends on your definition of 'sacred'...
Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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..…
"Why aren't the big boys already doing it?", "Because I'm smart enough to be doing a PhD" isn't strictly an answer, but I get the gist now (conversation is rarely strict, anyway.)
BTW: my advisor was slightly drunk too. in vino veritas (in wine truth is)... to a point.
Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#125Other: autodidact
Greater than any other "qualification...."
;)
Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#1261 million lines of code written and deployed into production. I'll match that against anyone's degrees (including my own).
I hope you haven't deployed any matching software.
Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#127A 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."
A J.D. is considered a terminal degree (there is no further degree beyond a J.D.; the S.J.D. is considered a different track), so technically you do have a doctorate. But ethical rules are questionable as to whether you can call yourself a "doctor," because it's potentially misleading. So US lawyers are in the strange position of having doctorates, but being unable to say so. Here's some more info: http://abajournal.…
Don't lawyers (i.e. our friends with the J.D.) get to refer to themselves as esquire? i.e. Bob Jones, esq or something like that.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would this get down voted?
You're not adding anything to the conversation. If you had said, "Yea I don't have a college degree and I've taught myself six different programming languages and I'm working on x, y and z right now," that would have been a (marginally) better response to the parent than what you wrote.
See, I think there is value in self-identification esp since not having a college degree makes you somewhat of a pariah in some circles.
Granted, it would have been better to provide some prove as to why it is notable that I personally do not have a college degree, but being here at HN counts for something.
But yeah, I have probably taught myself 6 programming languages (PHP, Ruby, Java, Python, Javascript, Perl, and some software specific programming tools like Lawson Process Flow, TSQL, etc). I have over 10 years of tech / business experience, own 2 retail clothing stores, took statzen.com to TechCrunch50 DemoPit last year, am about to launch http://gpsaAssassins.com, yada yada.
I was going to go back and finish my BS, but something better keeps coming along. Now I am at a point where it doesn't seem worth it. So I am thinking I may one day clep out of a much of stuff and go get my MBA. Of course, by the time I have the time to go back to school the MBA probably won't seem worth it either.
So, hopefully that adds a little more to the conversation. (Better late than never)
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#129Re: Poll: What is your highest educational qualification?
#1301 million lines of code written and deployed into production. I'll match that against anyone's degrees (including my own).
Lines of code != Code Quality