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Microsoft's 10-year-old Certified Professional
idigjazz writes "Meet Arfa, a promising young software programmer from Faisalabad, Pakistan, who is believed to be the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional in the world. She received the certification when she was 9. During a recent meeting with Bill Gates, she presented him with a poem she wrote that celebrated his life story."
how demanding getting an MCSE is. ;-D
one of the MCP exams did take me five minutes to finish - if this 9 year old girl beat that my ego is battered!
:(
I mean, shes 9 - and she's a girl
There once was a man from Nantucket
Who told all the world to suck it
Selling insecure code
He sure was a chode
And his ethics could not fill a bucket
- G
Start a happiness pandemic
This kind of sounds like Seven of Nine. Resistance is futile...
**TODO** Steal someone elses sig.
"The type of thinking that goes into correctly answering those questions is pretty mature. ... Microsoft certifications are not a joke -- they're highly respected in the industry."
rotfl
Won't somebody think of hte children?????
In Soviet Russia you dant have to put up with these crappy jokes
I started programming at 10..
:)
of course... a lot of it was stuff like..
10 print "k-mart sucks dick!"
20 goto 10
entered on a commodore 64 at a local k-mart store for all the passer bys to see
If I can't smoke and swear I'm fucked.
This chick will be so burnt out by the time she is 20, it won't even be funny. I saw the smile, what a nice smile. In 4 years, she will look like Glenn Close or Susan Sarandon.
Send her to the customers at 15, she will be crying to Mommy 2 weeks later. Then comes the drinking, the drugs, 3 or 4 divorces.
---- Berlin Brown http://www.newspiritcompany.
"The type of thinking that goes into correctly answering those questions is pretty mature. ... Microsoft certifications are not a joke -- they're highly respected in the industry." ...
seriously, i can't figure out what industry they are talking about.
During a recent meeting with Bill Gates, she presented him with a poem she wrote that celebrated his life story.
Whats next? The ode to the blue screen? Did Bill give her his compu-papal blessing?
>What's going on here?
Calc.exe ?
This is the Microsoft Youngling!
I'm not insane. My mother had me tested.
MCSE is to computers as McDonalds Certified Chef is to fine cuisine.
"Rise, my young apprentice..."
(eek).
Smegma.
Shit, that must have been hard, I mean, how many words rhyme with "bastard"?
How we know is more important than what we know.
Wonder how Bill is feeling now! Richest guy in the world upstaged by Disneyland?
"Sure there's porn and piracy on the Web but there's probably a downside too."
Back in my day, us kids had to write in assembly, and we didn't have these fancy registers you young whipper-snappers have today! We just had an accumulator and sixteen K of memory!
Kids these days! You've all got it so easy!
And get off my lawn!
</grumpy_old_man>
You do realize that you're taking issue with a 10 year old, right?
You were mistaken. Which is odd, since memory shouldn't be a problem for you
Sith apprentices are called younglings too??
Dear bill they love you there in pakistan
you know how hard it is to be an also ran
and since the trial you've been working so hard on your tan
to do everything you think you duly can
to be doted on and smiled at by even just one fan
The EU said go away...China said come back another day, so now it's third world slumming for you while you pray
that you don't end up in a pakistani jail where you'll get blown away. die bill die
Pakistan and india are the only two countries that I know of where many of the geeks are women who are good looking and its considered a good thing to be living with your parents as an adult until you are married...think about it!
That's it, I'm outsourcing myself.
On a more modern note, no. I think anyone capable of using a computer can program one and it always has been so.
You're on crack.
I'm the big fish in the big pond bitch.
I think the parents should be charged with child abuse ... Forcing a child to learn Windows, it should be criminal!
I can go door to door around here and find thousands of porn-surfers, yet even in my own office building among a group of unix guys, I can only find one other real programmer.
11*43+456^2
MSFTs 3 R's
Reset, Reboot, Reformat
He went eight years without his "precious" because he submitted to the collective will of some brain-dead academic airheads? What's smart about that?
Sometimes opportunity knocks. Other times, you have to roam the streets until you find it, beat it over the head, and drag it back to your place kicking and screaming... Where you have your pit already prepared... Some nice swing albums from the forties, a couple of car batteries, a fifty-pound bag of lime, bottle of ether... Wait, what were talking about again?
A poem of bills life? Yikes! She is only 9, I guess she is not old enough to have grown a hard sarcastic shell yet.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Your OS is shit.
And so are you.
Please, no applause, just throw money.
-Tom
I don't know about India, but in this country we do have child labor laws. No surprise to me that Bill Gates would exploit children in support of his empire's hedgemony. Shameful.
Well how else do you think Bill Gates gets customers? It's the same reason Kim Jong-il is in power. Gotta get 'em while they're young!
I've read poems written by 10-year-olds, and they all sucked. Really bad. Now you're telling me that she has written "plenty of C#" code. I've also read poems written by C# developers, and they all sucked. Really bad.
I'm sure that Bill Gates was pleased beyond words to hear his life story summed up in a few lines of Vogon poetry.
you misspelled "Lego".
I think in any job the only people who should be there are those that have proven their worth.
This OTT political correctness/quota balancing act in lots of workplaces is just dumb.
Dude, you're arguing with the opinion of a 10 year old girl.
I doubt she has any influence over government or corporate policies so I'm fairly certain you won't have to worry about being exposed to insidious 'girl cooties' any time soon.
Aside from that, it is not possible for you to present a meaningful argument against the assertion that, since men and women are divided up roughly 50/50 and there is nothing in the female physical/emotional/intellectual makeup that would prevent them from working with computers, men and women should be represented 50/50 in IT.
And that little girl seems to prove it since she is apparently more intelligent than you.
She likes Windoze enough to get certified in it *AND* she is writing poetry about Bill's life.
How twisted is that??
"All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power." - Ashleigh Brilliant
> If an 8-year-old can do it, and you haven't demonstrated that the child is a
> genius, then a reasonable conclusion is that it is easy.
So, an 8 year old has passed an exam - they must be clever. Perhaps the exam is worthless though, because if an 8 year old has passed it, it must be easy. Have any other 8 year olds passed it? No. Still, they can't be a genius because they're only 8 and passed an exam. And if other 8 year olds had passed it, then they can't be geniuses either because of the other 8 year olds that passed it.
You've made your point loud and clear!
I've been saying this for years. A 10 year old could do any MCSE's job.
What's this "in 10-15 years" stuff?
Hooray, creepy young girl lust!
Anyone capable of using an umbrella is capable of explaining climatology!!!!
Anyone capable of using a TV-remote is capable of designing and building a Hi-def TV set!!!!!
Afterward, Arfa described Gates as an "ideal personality," explaining that he had been second only to Disneyland on her list of things she wanted to see in the United States.
She's got her priorities straight. See the large mouse first and then the little rat.
You know /. only posts Old or Dupe News....
THe Earth will start spinning backwards ifOh, I see now...future trophy wife down the road. Thanks Slashdot.
"Go make me a CMS framework woman!"
I've been saying this for years. A 10 year old could do any MCSE's job.
... :)
When using binary numbers, please precise the numbering base... a 10b year old
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.