Comments on: The New American Idol… The Coder http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/ Sun, 26 May 2013 08:28:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The New American Idol… The Coder « Programming News http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126521 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:34:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126521 [...] read more | digg story [...]

]]> By: macosbrain http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126520 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 18:32:23 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126520 that sounds like this tv casting shows that produce “superstars” like Preluders, Bro’Sis,No Angels …

]]> By: TheHarbringer http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126519 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:23:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126519 Umm… Sorry, guys. MS beat you to it:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdntv/episode.aspx?xml=episodes/en/20060223CodeRoom3/manifest.xml

]]> By: Somewhat Frank http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126518 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:20:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126518 Calling All Collegiate Coding Rockstars!…

Are you a college student, coder superstar with dreams of being crowned supreme collegiate programmer of all the land? If so, you might want to sign up for the TopCoder Collegiate Challenge which is set to take place in San…

]]> By: stevenf http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126517 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:58:03 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126517 IronCoder 4 is coming up!

http://ironcoder.org/blog/

]]> By: Simon http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126516 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:32:16 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126516 Please, no, nobody should hope for programming to be “cool”. Call me antisocial, but I don’t want more new programmers that are sheeplike enough to care about what is cool and what isn’t. If there’s an uncool stigma about it, it will filter out a lot of these people.

]]> By: Thomas http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126515 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:23:37 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126515 What’s funny is in today’s world someone who “knows enough about computers to be dangerous” would have been classified as a nerd if they had that much knowledge 10 years ago.

]]> By: Forget about it http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126514 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:21:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126514 Guys, I’ve got news for you.

The American IT industry is dead. India is on track to release 400,000 Nerds per year, and they’ll all work for a fraction of what you guys do.

Go and take up hairdressing. It has much better growth potential.

]]> By: ZeroC00L http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126513 Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:08:44 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126513 Richard- Your comment highlights one of America’s biggest problems in the modern age- that it is somehow viewed as “uncool”, “unhip” or just plain nerdy to be “smart” or “technology smart”in the global age.

Quite frankly, your mentality is saddening and disturbing at the same time. More to the point, it is costing this country its competitiveness (engineers, computer scientists, etc) and make NO MISTAKE, this WILL come back to bite YOU in the near future. And all of us for that matter.

It is high-time to shed the stupid, idiotic stereotype and start rewarding brainpower for what it is: a critical tool in the modern age.

Our way of life is at stake here, nothing less. Unfortunately, you may be too ignorant to see it.

You get what you deserve.

GEEK IS COOL and you better start dealing with it.

(Andrew is right on..)

]]> By: dave http://gigaom.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126512 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 17:04:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2006/10/23/the-new-american-idol-the-coder/#comment-126512 then call it “Line 56″ or something…and it could be quite well done, not sure why it hasn’t been attempted as computers factor into forensics quite visibly and in fact they are visible within many shows as lab tools (along with assorted devices)…when people watch bond, they always long for the scene where Q displays the gadgets, so perhaps that kind of approach, but with an emphasis on how it was done, how it solves problems, how it is actually used by regular people, etc…

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