A friend works at a top London law firm (think top 3). Her group was given a PDF document and needed to find all sentences refering to a certain person. Instead of using the in-built search function they printed out all 400 pages of the document and then went through it by hand with highlighter pens...
You make very valid points but I feel I must jump in when you say:
Also, you make it seem like only knowing the C/C++ languages is sufficient to accomplish anything. That's really not true--at a minimum you need to know the STL for C++ related stuff. STL is the *Standard* Template Library... you need to know the standard libary functions for pretty much all programming languages so it's a bit of a moot point.
Trying to make up a car analogy in 5 seconds:
It's like saying to be able to drive the car you also need to know how to turn the ignition key?
How many times have we blamed the poor performance of Windows on legacy code? How many times have we wished they just redesigned large chunks of their operating system? Well we finally got what we wanted and now we're realising it's not actually that good.
Driver issues? Surely that's a hardware manufacturer's problem (in most cases) but who gets the bad PR?
Improved security, but this breaks lots of existing programs, again it's the application developers that need to adapt but it's Microsoft who will get the bad PR.
I certainly wont be using Vista yet, it'll take time for everyone to get use to this new platform, but if they hadn't released it do you really think they'd have got things moving?
There is a really simple solution to this. Force all wireless router manufacturers to set a default password.
Although it would be trivial to use this default password it would make clear the fact that you are logging on to a secured connection that's not open for anyone to use.
If someone wants to open their wifi up for free use then they can remove the password. If they want it to be secure they can set the password to something else.
After you've watched many subtitled series you'll never go back provided the translation is good. The un-dubbed voices add to the effect of the speech which is often lost in dubs as the parent points out.
I actually watched an entire subtitled film once and 5 minutes after the end couldn't remember if it was subtitled or in English.
I specifically decided not to do Computing Science even though it was by far my strongest subject. Instead I studied Physics and took as many computing related courses as I could.
Most people value it more recognising that the programming I did was all applied to real work problems. I'd say it's a good talking point for interviews too.
Back to your question though, I'd say choice of university matters a whole lot. I'm based in the UK in London so we have a slightly different system I guess but it's fairly obvious who has gone to one of the top 2 (oxbridge), a top 10, a decent one or just going for the booze uni.
HR may filter on university, the interviewer may somewhat but once you get to the interview it doesn't matter what university you've put down.
This is not insightful, you've just made up facts, so you're forcing me to finally sign up.
I visited Samsung back when DVD technology was still in the labs and their guys were very keen to show it off. They all referred to it as a Digital Versatile Disc. Remember at this point you couldn't buy a DVD in the stores and data DVDs became mainstream a long time after videos.
Also for it to be a backronym then it couldn't have been an acronym beforehand. From dictionary.com:
backronym jargon (Backward acronym) A word which has been turned into an acronym
or
n. [portmanteau of back + acronym] A word interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended.
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Your electricity bill seems really strange...
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On every bill I've seen it gets cheaper the more you use (the first units offset the provision).
It should work the same way for broadband or it should be flat rate + line rental.
Yes it is. They always define precisely how things are referenced normally in the first pages.
A friend works at a top London law firm (think top 3). Her group was given a PDF document and needed to find all sentences refering to a certain person. Instead of using the in-built search function they printed out all 400 pages of the document and then went through it by hand with highlighter pens...
They're bloody good at law though.
Trying to make up a car analogy in 5 seconds: It's like saying to be able to drive the car you also need to know how to turn the ignition key?
But otherwise very good point.
If you haven't read this already then you really need to: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html
How many times have we blamed the poor performance of Windows on legacy code? How many times have we wished they just redesigned large chunks of their operating system? Well we finally got what we wanted and now we're realising it's not actually that good.
Driver issues? Surely that's a hardware manufacturer's problem (in most cases) but who gets the bad PR?
Improved security, but this breaks lots of existing programs, again it's the application developers that need to adapt but it's Microsoft who will get the bad PR.
I certainly wont be using Vista yet, it'll take time for everyone to get use to this new platform, but if they hadn't released it do you really think they'd have got things moving?
There is a really simple solution to this. Force all wireless router manufacturers to set a default password.
Although it would be trivial to use this default password it would make clear the fact that you are logging on to a secured connection that's not open for anyone to use.
If someone wants to open their wifi up for free use then they can remove the password. If they want it to be secure they can set the password to something else.
After you've watched many subtitled series you'll never go back provided the translation is good. The un-dubbed voices add to the effect of the speech which is often lost in dubs as the parent points out. I actually watched an entire subtitled film once and 5 minutes after the end couldn't remember if it was subtitled or in English.
I specifically decided not to do Computing Science even though it was by far my strongest subject. Instead I studied Physics and took as many computing related courses as I could. Most people value it more recognising that the programming I did was all applied to real work problems. I'd say it's a good talking point for interviews too. Back to your question though, I'd say choice of university matters a whole lot. I'm based in the UK in London so we have a slightly different system I guess but it's fairly obvious who has gone to one of the top 2 (oxbridge), a top 10, a decent one or just going for the booze uni. HR may filter on university, the interviewer may somewhat but once you get to the interview it doesn't matter what university you've put down.
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This is not insightful, you've just made up facts, so you're forcing me to finally sign up.
I visited Samsung back when DVD technology was still in the labs and their guys were very keen to show it off. They all referred to it as a Digital Versatile Disc. Remember at this point you couldn't buy a DVD in the stores and data DVDs became mainstream a long time after videos.
Also for it to be a backronym then it couldn't have been an acronym beforehand. From dictionary.com:
backronym jargon
(Backward acronym) A word which has been turned into an acronym
or
n. [portmanteau of back + acronym]
A word interpreted as an acronym that was not originally so intended.
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