[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

DJ-Pfulio DJPfulio at jdpfu.com
Thu Sep 17 16:10:32 EDT 2015


Performance of Rails doesn't matter for most companies. They just don't
get the traffic.  For internal web-app development I think Ruby and
rails is extremely productive. A larger, faster server for $10K more is
cheaper than programming time. I've seen this solution many, many times.

If you are FB, Twitter, Google - that matters, but if you are writing an
internal app for GA-Power employees, it doesn't.

Lots of Rails jobs out there. Most Ruby/Rails people I know do not have
CS degrees.

To be a programmer, you don't need a CS degree. Lots of CS degreed
people never write any code in their work lives.

On 09/17/2015 03:28 PM, leam hall wrote:
> Didn't we have a discussion here last week or so about issues with Rails? I
> seem to think it came off poorly.  :)
> 
> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:24 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>
>> And if you ever get really good at Rails, you'll have lots of high
>> paying work.
>>
>> 


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