This is not the first time tools have been outlawed, wire cutters are illegal in Austin, Texas. Of course, it may very well be the first time it's illegal to make a tool.
If your bottleneck is the scripting language, i suggest getting something besides a 286 for your webserver. Although that Cray that's running your RDBMS must be pretty sweet:)
Yes, I have wasted too much time interviewing people with MCSE's to waste any more time on them. Yes, I'm stereotyping them, but of the 20-30 I've interviewed (I'm a Software Engineer, not a hiring manager), I've found that 100% of the ones that proudly display MCSE as a major selling point are poor candidates. They don't know how to think. They're the kind of people that memorize problems and answers, not the kind of people who can create answeres to new problems.
The original post was slightly exaggerated to emphasize my point -- which is that if you think an MCSE will get you a job, it'll get you round-filed any time my opinion is asked. Having an MCSE is not itself a detriment, but waving it in my face is. Seriously, how much credit do you give a resume titled MCSE? You laugh and trash it.
On the subject of education, it's a little more nebulous. There are great PhD's out there. A PhD in world literature is likely to be a better candidate than someone with a high-school diploma, even for a technical position. On the other hand, I've found some downright stupid PhD's, too. It's the same metric. If you think the piece of paper is your ticket to a job, you can count my position out.
Where does this idea come from that having an MCSE gets you a job? When I'm reading resumes, I immediately toss out any resume with MCSE on it.
I found out empirically that people who put MCSE on their resumes just can't cut it. MCSE doesn't mean you have skills. It just means you passed a test.
A college degree is no different. It doesn't mean anything unless you can back it up with some good sample code or a good answer to an algorithm question in the interview.
This offering is not aimed at established Windows users or Linux followers. It is aimed at people who walk into Best Buy and buy the absolutely cheapest computer there -- people who don't even realize that there's a difference between Linux and Windows. AOL has always strived to get to the consumer early, kind of like big tobacco.
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This is not the first time tools have been outlawed, wire cutters are illegal in Austin, Texas. Of course, it may very well be the first time it's illegal to make a tool.
If your bottleneck is the scripting language, i suggest getting something besides a 286 for your webserver. Although that Cray that's running your RDBMS must be pretty sweet :)
Very true. Why don't you tell that to all the "programmers" that are getting MCSE's in order to get a better programming job.
The original post was slightly exaggerated to emphasize my point -- which is that if you think an MCSE will get you a job, it'll get you round-filed any time my opinion is asked. Having an MCSE is not itself a detriment, but waving it in my face is. Seriously, how much credit do you give a resume titled MCSE? You laugh and trash it.
On the subject of education, it's a little more nebulous. There are great PhD's out there. A PhD in world literature is likely to be a better candidate than someone with a high-school diploma, even for a technical position. On the other hand, I've found some downright stupid PhD's, too. It's the same metric. If you think the piece of paper is your ticket to a job, you can count my position out.
I found out empirically that people who put MCSE on their resumes just can't cut it. MCSE doesn't mean you have skills. It just means you passed a test.
A college degree is no different. It doesn't mean anything unless you can back it up with some good sample code or a good answer to an algorithm question in the interview.
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