[ale] A Hal Fulton Blog article on CompSci degrees

[Charles Shapiro]

Interestihng essay.  BTW I have a 1980 degree in Classical Languages, a
near 30-year career in programming doing about everything from writing C
under MS-DOS to GIS database work, and I CAN in fact use a soldering iron.
The only real limit to your knowledge is the time you're willing to put in.

-- CHS


On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:10:32PM -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That reminds me of this essay:
>
>   "Don't use Hadoop -- your data isn't that big"
>
>   https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/hadoop_hatred.html
>
> As much as I dislike the "rails" development paradigm, I can't argue
> with its programmer productivity, and it is able to scale higher than
> most folks/organizations will ever need.
>
>  - Solomon
> --
> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
> Delray Beach, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
>
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