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November 18th, 2009
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xkcd is one of my favorite things on the web, but when I read this one I thought he got it all wrong, on both branches. (I’ve worked in both branches, and since joining the commercial side I’ve hired software developers who worked for university research labs.) I thought the academic branch was unrealistic. I thought the business branch was more realistic … for academia! Except I suppose that Outlook is much less common in academia than in business.
My personal favorite xkcd is http://xkcd.com/163/
I’m gonna print that one out and give it to the interviewers who ask me why I didn’t finish my BSc…
Yes, I agree, it’s all wrong:
* Academia: “we have to make it more sophisticate, to be able to publish it in a fancy journal”
* Business: “OK, but we can’t sell 200 lines of code to our customer for the price we budgeted. Go back and add something”.
:/
If you looked at the tooltip text of this XKCD comic, take a look at the following article:
Origin of Quake3′s Fast InvSqrt()
The key word is 0x5f3759df.
Greg: So how’s that whole “academia vs business” job choice dilemma thingy coming along?
@Steve: What “dilemma”?