Stackoverflow

Now for something completely offtopic:

I just want to give a quick nod to Joel Spolsky (if only I had more time to concentrate on his essays) and Jeff Attwood and their stackoverflow.com 'podcast' (although it's just an mp3-file that is attached to a blog post). Highly recommended listening, by the way. There's worse ways of spending an hour (per episode) of your life.

Having the time (the insomniac that I am) listening through the latest entries, I get warm feelings when Spolsky is surprised that people actually are hired and paid differently at some places according to their degree. I mean, I couldn't agree more when Attwood mentioned that he didn't like college and the "learning how to learn" thing. Seems like both Attwood and Spolsky agree that, while degrees are not useless, what you actually are able to do plays a bigger role in what you are worth, careerwise.

I tip my hat to those words and feel delighted. I strongly recommend following the weekly entries. Also, if you for some strange reason haven't read articles on joelonsoftware.com but have managed to find this blog, you have got things totally backwards. Stop reading mine and start reading his. Now.

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