On: Why do so few people major in computer science?

[skookumchuck]

> It is often a cruel and harsh mistress.

If your engineering project doesn't work, there's no pretending that it does. It's the ultimate in fairness :-)

[CamperBob2 → skookumchuck]

If your engineering project doesn't work, there's no pretending that it does.

Yeah, that's marketing's job.

[lostboys67 → skookumchuck]

Nah that bridge that fell of its supports it was the contractors fault honest guv :-)

[throwaway7645 → lostboys67]

:)

[lostboys67 → throwaway7645]

I used to work for a top 5 consulting engineers and I had to reverse engineer some tests to help prove that the tests on the ground where we had a problem with a bridge where the fault of some one else.