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From: freak@nsc.UUCP (Curt Mayer)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Titles
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Date: Sat, 1-Mar-86 23:00:36 EST
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In article <3890@srcsip.UUCP> meier@srcsip.UUCP (Christopher Meier) writes:
>>> > A random hacker grade programmer of high school age is worth 5 brand new
>>> > CS degree-oids.
>Can you state what this comparison is based on?

CS degree factories spit out hundreds of cloned nine-to-fiver hacks who read
4 years ago that CS was the degree to get for THE BIG BUCKS.

>>> > Note that ALL the awesomely hot programmers I know do not have degrees.
>What makes someone an awesomely hot programmer?

awesomely hot programmers code and design elegantly without thinking about it.
unlike the wretched stuff coded by Stoned Grad Students.
Grab a BSD source license and look at finger, biff, and strings.
Wonderful stuff, that. and this stuff is from berkeley, a school with more than
it's share of resources. 

>>> 				   harry,
>>> 				   A pissed off college student.

i see that you are a disinterested observer also...

	curt

BMW: built in germany for Yuppies by Fanatics.