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Joel Gives College Advice For Programmers
An anonymous reader writes "Joel on Software explains what college students should do with their lives. Interesting to note is how he justifies such trivialties as GPA scores and well-roundedness, the very things comments here tend to think are overrated. In short, learn to write English, learn to write C, and don't worry about India!"
If you're in the position to hire personnel and are looking to staff a position... take your stack of applications and divide them in half at random. Take one stack and throw it into the trash.
Avoid hiring unlucky people.
Speak truth to power.
learn bricklaying and plastering, plumbing, carpentry, welding
That way you can compete with Mexicans for jobs instead of Indians.
Proverbs 21:19
Conformance would have made this post much more readable...
My blog. Good stuff (when I remember to update it). Read it.