I work for one of the vendors mentioned in the summary.
Google has nothing to do with the services provided by the vendors in the marketplace aside from inviting them to participate in the first place. They certainly don't own the services or even have any control over them. We still host our product and store any data on our "own" (well our hosting partner's) infrastructure in exactly the same manner if you buy our product without enabling the Google apps integration.
Don't you think that part of your job as a more experience programmer is to share your knowledge with juniors/graduates?
Universities are mostly interested in who can pay,. I'm 24 and I've got a computer science degree - real comp sci with maths and algorithms, i wrote a compiler, studied language theory you name it. Now I'm doing a masters degree (at one of the top universities in Australia) and as part of it I've worked with guys who couldn't write software. I've also met a bunch of really talent and smart guys all in their early 20s.
But I've also worked with guys who have been around for years with no idea on how to write software either and churned out crap code without even a single unit test in sight. Point is - there are bad developers of all ages and you shouldn't discount an entire group because of one idiot who didn't know what a linker does.
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Sun Java and Adobe Flash have lacked 64 bit support, so 32 bit versions were mandatory.
The Sun JVM has been available in a 64-bit version for years. Even the browser plugin is available in a 64 bit version now.
I work for one of the vendors mentioned in the summary.
Google has nothing to do with the services provided by the vendors in the marketplace aside from inviting them to participate in the first place. They certainly don't own the services or even have any control over them. We still host our product and store any data on our "own" (well our hosting partner's) infrastructure in exactly the same manner if you buy our product without enabling the Google apps integration.
Don't you think that part of your job as a more experience programmer is to share your knowledge with juniors/graduates?
Universities are mostly interested in who can pay,. I'm 24 and I've got a computer science degree - real comp sci with maths and algorithms, i wrote a compiler, studied language theory you name it. Now I'm doing a masters degree (at one of the top universities in Australia) and as part of it I've worked with guys who couldn't write software. I've also met a bunch of really talent and smart guys all in their early 20s.
But I've also worked with guys who have been around for years with no idea on how to write software either and churned out crap code without even a single unit test in sight. Point is - there are bad developers of all ages and you shouldn't discount an entire group because of one idiot who didn't know what a linker does.