I've got a degree in software engineering and I've worked on several funded and hobby projects before and during pursuit of my master's, including passable modifications to vBulletin source code, and I've taught software engineering, data structures, and discrete mathematics at my university... Yet I'm not going to attempt to prove some idea for implementing a bit of user functionality superior to another on the internet. I'm just saying.

Designers, engineers, coders, and users see things differently. It doesn't mean any one of them is wrong or misguided. It means they all have distinct views of the process, all of which are vital to completing a piece of software. This is pretty much the core tenet of good software engineering practice: elicitation, understanding, compromise.

It's good that you know your limits and that you wouldn't tell someone to do something you yourself don't understand, but I feel I'm at the point in my career where I can safely say that a feature only one person requested is not a feature worth implementing.

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Which was basically the point I drippingly subtexted.

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Yes, yes, but what's your SAT score

1595 was my lowest score.

That's right. I took the SAT multiple times. Just for fun.

I'm sorry, I've forgotten my SAT score, what with having taken the GRE.

Well I have a huge dick, and you can't learn that from a book, faggot.

No, but if you send me pictures I can certainly touch myself.

Like you didn't compare your GRE score/percentiles to your SAT ones.

I don't even remember taking the SAT. I seem to recall my GRE percentiles being worse, but that's about it.

Well since you're so eager to tell us the parts of your life story that are flattering, why are you going for a master's?

So I qualify to teach sophomore/junior level CS and math classes (EDIT: as faculty; I do that now, but I get paid beans). I should have my doctorate by the time I'm nigh 29, if all goes according to plan and the research works out.

Also to make up for low senses of accomplishment and self worth!

You're really bad at this, aren't you?

Life, I mean.

I didn't even remember what my SAT scores were. I had to fish them out.
580 verbal; 800 math

Proves that I'm not the best with English I guess.

Nah, I'm actually fairly good at it now. I'm just not stuck up enough to think I'm hot shit anymore, and if somebody asks me a question I give them an honest answer.

Your verbal/quantitative ratio isn't uncommon for CS folks.

I have ten GCSE's.