On 4/4/07, A.M. Kuchling <amk at amk.ca> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 04:07:18PM +1000, Anthony Baxter wrote: > > This one was at least personally addressed > > (well, to "Python Contributors"), which is a step ahead of most of > > them. > > What gets me is that such surveys are invalid because the respondents > aren't randomly selected -- they're the people who care enough to > answer. It would be more efficient and reliable to just go look at a > sampling of project web sites and look at their bug trackers, but that > requires effort from the student. > > Recently I was interviewing a student who worked on a project that had > instrumented an IDE to record every operation (editing, saving, etc.) > in a database. I asked "so what did you learn from this data?", and > was told that no one has analyzed it; they're just *accumulating* the > data. It's stamp collecting as computer science. I am putting way too much effort into my PhD if this kind of stuff can get me a degree. =) -Brett -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20070404/0f0e2b6d/attachment.htm
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