That is a specialist position for a medical doctor, not something you pick up in trade school.
Residency is a fancy name for the trade school/apprenticeship that MD's get, just as education is a fancy name for the training that you got if you can put letters after your name.
No one speaks Standard American English without instruction. It is not native.
That shouldn't be a problem. Here in the US we teach it from a young age. I presume most other countries do likewise. There is also instruction available for people learning English as a second language.
In Britain it is referred to as "Received English" in that you receive instruction in it.
No, it's called United Kingdom Standard English. You're confusing it with Received Pronunciation.
Using "they" as a neuter singular pronoun goes back centuries. It only became discouraged because some idiots in the 18th century thought that English would be better off with Latin grammar. It's the same source as the "rule" against ending a sentence with a preposition. It's perfectly correct in English, but discouraged because it's incorrect in the dead language called Latin. From this source:
Meanwhile, many great writers — Byron, Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope and more — continued to use they and company as singulars, never mind the grammarians. In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it. R. W. Burchfield, editor of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, has written that it’s only a matter of time before this practice becomes standard English: “The process now seems irreversible.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) already finds the singular they acceptable “even in literary and formal contexts,”
It was only considered such historically, largely because anything that didn't fit into some conveniently defined classical subject (e.g. rhetoric, law, medicine) was dumped into the philosophy category (e.g. science was called "natural philosophy"). Categorizations that were abandoned centuries ago are of little contemporary import.
Try writing a research paper in a Liberal Arts program without faultless logic and you won't do well.
How can you tell if the logic is "faultless" if you don't start with the sort of rigorous and objective definitions that you have in math? Treating math differently started with Euclid, and I think the guy was on to something.
Google wants to use you during your productive years and then discard you.
What are your "productive years"? Why do you stop being productive after that?
BTW, from what I've heard (third hand) Google likes to hire recent CS grads from top schools. Undoubtedly many such people are good, but it's limiting yourself to do so. There are rumors that they've even cut back on being so exclusive about it.
I wouldn't ever hire a compsci or a mathematics graduate with only a first degree.
In which case you're rejecting quite a few highly qualified people.
It's also odd that you'd require an additional degree when you said that "[I] had not too much more trouble with an MSc". Are two easy degrees much better than one?
the most gifted person had a... biology degree
Last time I checked biology is a hard science, and definitely not one of the humanities.
someone shows up with a Lit degree but still knows how to code and program
Now you're adding additional qualifications. I've known some excellent programmers who had degrees that weren't in CS or a related field. In that case though their degree is irrelevant. Why not hire people who have on HS diplomas? I've know some excellent people like that too.
It was better back when such things were written by people who spoke English as their primary language. Some understanding of the subject matter you're writing about doesn't hurt either, but such people have been deemed too expensive.
well educated, successful business person who thinks for themselves and has a well rounded education?
1. What sort of university education do you think is important to be a successful business person?
2. Does it depend on what type of business you're in, or is there just some sort of generic education that's equally useful in all businesses?
3. w/r/t the above, please distinguish between education that's genuinely useful, and that which is merely ticket punching (i.e. a bachelor's is the new HS diploma).
Karl Marx predicted that capital flowing to where labor was cheapest would result in a race to the bottom
Which is not all that different from the famous capitalist David Ricardo talking about the "iron law of wages". It's interesting what the two sides agree on.
Nice try at a slur. There is nothing new, unusual, un-Constitutional or unreasonable about requiring that vital functions in the US be performed by US based entities.
I think it'd help to mention that temporary means 3-6 years, and that losing your job means losing your legal immigration status in the US. It's also very difficult for H-1B's to change jobs. They're wonderfully captive labor.
Go a few miles outside the cities and it is mostly Republican.
Nevertheless CA is primarily a blue state. I'm not sticking up for the R's here - just pointing out that with many issues the D's are also busy screwing Americans. The D's whore for money too, and much of theirs comes from the tech industry. One of the few people in congress to oppose some of this H-1B crap is Chuck Grassley, who's an R.
Which is exactly why an Indian commerce minister referred to the H-1B as the "outsourcing visa". It's not an either/or situation - the H-1B visa helps enable outsourcing/offshoring.
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actual science that can be proved
If you think that science can prove anything, then you know nothing about science.
The post doesn't have enough detail. 2.88 in what degree, from which college, and completed when?
Perhaps you wandered over to the wrong web site - this is Slashdot.
That is a specialist position for a medical doctor, not something you pick up in trade school.
Residency is a fancy name for the trade school/apprenticeship that MD's get, just as education is a fancy name for the training that you got if you can put letters after your name.
That still doesn't define what "interpreting an MRI" means.
No one speaks Standard American English without instruction. It is not native.
That shouldn't be a problem. Here in the US we teach it from a young age. I presume most other countries do likewise. There is also instruction available for people learning English as a second language.
In Britain it is referred to as "Received English" in that you receive instruction in it.
No, it's called United Kingdom Standard English. You're confusing it with Received Pronunciation.
Using "they" as a neuter singular pronoun goes back centuries. It only became discouraged because some idiots in the 18th century thought that English would be better off with Latin grammar. It's the same source as the "rule" against ending a sentence with a preposition. It's perfectly correct in English, but discouraged because it's incorrect in the dead language called Latin. From this source:
Meanwhile, many great writers — Byron, Austen, Thackeray, Eliot, Dickens, Trollope and more — continued to use they and company as singulars, never mind the grammarians. In fact, so many people now use they in the old singular way that dictionaries and usage guides are taking a critical look at the prohibition against it. R. W. Burchfield, editor of The New Fowler’s Modern English Usage, has written that it’s only a matter of time before this practice becomes standard English: “The process now seems irreversible.” Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed.) already finds the singular they acceptable “even in literary and formal contexts,”
I'm more scared that they think an programming degree will somehow make you good at reading MRI's.
Nonsense. Any programmer in the 21st century knows all about offshoring, so they can help with having MRI's read in India.
Math is a branch of philosophy.
It was only considered such historically, largely because anything that didn't fit into some conveniently defined classical subject (e.g. rhetoric, law, medicine) was dumped into the philosophy category (e.g. science was called "natural philosophy"). Categorizations that were abandoned centuries ago are of little contemporary import.
Try writing a research paper in a Liberal Arts program without faultless logic and you won't do well.
How can you tell if the logic is "faultless" if you don't start with the sort of rigorous and objective definitions that you have in math? Treating math differently started with Euclid, and I think the guy was on to something.
computer programs. most are cut and paste, formulaic
Then why are some great, and others complete garbage?
I was referring to Standard American English, or even the British variety if you must scrape the bottom of the barrel :)
My gpa was 2.88. Is there still hope?
Why was that rated down?
Google wants to use you during your productive years and then discard you.
What are your "productive years"? Why do you stop being productive after that?
BTW, from what I've heard (third hand) Google likes to hire recent CS grads from top schools. Undoubtedly many such people are good, but it's limiting yourself to do so. There are rumors that they've even cut back on being so exclusive about it.
I still don't think that i can " interpret an MRI"
You're playing word games unless you define what you mean by "interpreting an MRI".
BTW, who can do it?
I wouldn't ever hire a compsci or a mathematics graduate with only a first degree.
In which case you're rejecting quite a few highly qualified people.
It's also odd that you'd require an additional degree when you said that "[I] had not too much more trouble with an MSc". Are two easy degrees much better than one?
the most gifted person had a... biology degree
Last time I checked biology is a hard science, and definitely not one of the humanities.
someone shows up with a Lit degree but still knows how to code and program
Now you're adding additional qualifications. I've known some excellent programmers who had degrees that weren't in CS or a related field. In that case though their degree is irrelevant. Why not hire people who have on HS diplomas? I've know some excellent people like that too.
It was better back when such things were written by people who spoke English as their primary language. Some understanding of the subject matter you're writing about doesn't hurt either, but such people have been deemed too expensive.
well educated, successful business person who thinks for themselves and has a well rounded education?
1. What sort of university education do you think is important to be a successful business person?
2. Does it depend on what type of business you're in, or is there just some sort of generic education that's equally useful in all businesses?
3. w/r/t the above, please distinguish between education that's genuinely useful, and that which is merely ticket punching (i.e. a bachelor's is the new HS diploma).
I wish there were more english majors in tech since they can bring some pretty useful skills and thought patterns to the table
Which of those would be useful to Google or another company that writes a lot of software?
Karl Marx predicted that capital flowing to where labor was cheapest would result in a race to the bottom
Which is not all that different from the famous capitalist David Ricardo talking about the "iron law of wages". It's interesting what the two sides agree on.
Nice try at a slur. There is nothing new, unusual, un-Constitutional or unreasonable about requiring that vital functions in the US be performed by US based entities.
I think it'd help to mention that temporary means 3-6 years, and that losing your job means losing your legal immigration status in the US. It's also very difficult for H-1B's to change jobs. They're wonderfully captive labor.
Translation?
Go a few miles outside the cities and it is mostly Republican.
Nevertheless CA is primarily a blue state. I'm not sticking up for the R's here - just pointing out that with many issues the D's are also busy screwing Americans. The D's whore for money too, and much of theirs comes from the tech industry. One of the few people in congress to oppose some of this H-1B crap is Chuck Grassley, who's an R.
Which is exactly why an Indian commerce minister referred to the H-1B as the "outsourcing visa". It's not an either/or situation - the H-1B visa helps enable outsourcing/offshoring.
Leave out "HS", and it apparently applies in both PA and Ohio.