I think I may be the only person on the IT staff who isn't a developer with a CS degree. I'm certainly the only one with an MS in CS.
Wash: Well, I wash my hands of it. It's a hopeless case. I'll read a nice poem at the funeral. Something with imagery. Zoe: You could lock the door and keep the power-hungry maniac at bay. Wash: Oh, no, I'm starting to like this poetry idea now. Here lies my beloved Zoe, my autumn flower, somewhat less attractive now she's all corpsified and gross...
'Shindig'
Natter 32 Flavors and Then Some
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2005 7:22:08 am PST #4536 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
§ ita § - Feb 07, 2005 7:24:31 am PST #4537 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Shrift -- you're in sysadmin? And Tom -- what's your job description?
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2005 7:25:08 am PST #4538 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Most of what I do is programming database stuff. I have no CS degree. I've had two programming courses: BASIC in high school, and Fortran in college.
Tom Scola - Feb 07, 2005 7:25:12 am PST #4539 of 10002
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Unix System Administrator
Kalshane - Feb 07, 2005 7:25:37 am PST #4540 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
PC support. Every once in awhile we'll get a new program in that is specific to a department rather than hospital-wide (and thus not something supported by the Sys Admins, though they'll help out if the can) that won't work right and it'd be nice to have a better understanding of how software works and how to "fix" it, but for my normal day to day job it doesn't matter.
tommyrot - Feb 07, 2005 7:26:00 am PST #4541 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
But there are times I wish I had a CS degree....
bon bon - Feb 07, 2005 7:27:18 am PST #4542 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
All I can say is that law schools have equal numbers of men and women because of the notoriously family-friendly working conditions of papa law.
Kalshane - Feb 07, 2005 7:27:21 am PST #4543 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
But there are times I wish I had a CS degree....
Same here. Though it'd mostly be something to point at and go "See this, pay me more."
Betsy HP - Feb 07, 2005 7:29:01 am PST #4544 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
I mean, I can't imagine starting a Computer Science degree without any programming experience.
I can. You show up at college from a high school with no programming courses.
It's like the women who show up at engineering school with the required math and science background but no tinkering experience. I knew a husband/wife pair of engineers; she didn't do as well on class projects as he did because he was more used to handling a soldering iron.
I used to be really peeved at competing with the guys with lots of programming experience until I considered all the reading experience I had, all the reading I did for pleasure, and how young I'd started.
College isn't a standing start; lots of people show up Freshman year with a lap ahead on the track.
P.M. Marc - Feb 07, 2005 7:34:04 am PST #4545 of 10002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
All my post-high school CS studies were in AI theory, no programming involved, and nope, no CS degree here. My job positions are basically Tech Monkey types, where a wide base of knowledge is a good thing, because you're mostly the finger for whatever hole springs in the dike.
(I'd have had to go for another year for a dual BA/BS, and that would have been costly, and still wouldn't have given me much in the way of programming.)