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I am not entirely sure how my response ended up as a new thread, please use the main thread for this topic to adress all other comments.  I still stick by my previous statment. Even though there are a large percentage of colleges that are 5-10 years behind the times, there are also colleges that are 5-10 years ahead of the market. One example of this would be Dr. Brooks at MIT who has worked on various advanced AI concepts. And I am sure there are also others that bring creativity and inspiration to computer sciences as well. I originally did not set up a given time frame for the bases of that statment, for which I am sorry.
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Yep, I have a degree in Software Engineering and found it useful for introducing me to topics but that's about it. After the "Introduction" I kinda learned the rest myself.
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In Mexico, we actually _have_ an union. Indeed, I'll be spending my two last weeks of the year in Cancun 
Greetings,
K.K.
It's not right, in one life, too much rain
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I'm off to PE[^] between Christmas and New Year's.
Not quite Cancun, but I've got family down there, so it'll be nice anyway.
Cheers,
Simon
> blog:: brokenkeyboards
> my opinion of VS05 :: here
> CV :: PDF
> article :: SVG animation
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Maybe once we have a programmers union we can start getting rid of the notion that just because we are in IT we don't get paid overtime.
Bye,
Johan
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Maybe if you finished your designated tasks on time, you won't need to worry about overtime.
------- sig starts
"I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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And what happens when your boss (the designer) didn't do their job well... Usually, the delay in projects (and eventually, the time we -the programmers- have to spent at night) are caused because of bad decitions of the project leaders. Often, also, sellers sell things that the system cannot do, and -there you go- a new development has to be made with too few time. In those cases, we actually should be paid overtime.
Yet, in Mexico at least, we don't have that problem. At least in the places I've worked, they do pay overtime, and often they reward the effort (i.e. in March the company is taking us to Acapulco, all expenses included, for one week).
One day you'll find
that I have gone,
for tomorrow may rain, so
I'll follow the sun...
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Maybe if you finbished your designated tasks on time, you won't need to worry about overtime.
------- sig starts
"I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt
"...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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That is definitley a posibility. There are others but then I'd be going over the 30 seconds meaningful conversation I can have, according to you bio: "My weakest point is that my moments of clarity are too brief to hold a meaningful conversation that requires more than 30 seconds to complete."
Oh well...
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Hmm, union, huh?
That means, anyone inside is looked at as he / she could be something else?
Just joking.
SkyWalker
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Yeah, I couldn't agree more. Why don't we get paid for the nights spent on the job?
Kene
What would life be without programmers and salesmen?
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