But 10 years of serious study and deep understanding still doesn't give you those years of.NET experience.
What employers really WANT is someone who has that kind of deep understanding, but what they tell HR to look for is 10 years.NET experience, which can easily be "coasting", as you say.
(Well, except that anyone with 10 years of.NET experience is a liar.)
So it's un-American to not have 10 years.NET experience?
Most job descriptions for ANY tech company are overly specific, requiring experience with particular technologies that a reasonably skilled programmer can learn in a few weeks at most. And that's what HR departments use when they're screening resumes. Is it any wonder that they can't find the workers they want?
Now if only Microsoft could develop a system for delivering electric shocks to users who run untrusted executables they receive in email, that would be something.
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Beer, Pink Floyd, rocking chair.
Oh yeah, and my MacBook. That's how I roll.
Long Live the King!
You must be new here.
Which corporation was it that invented the Internet again?
Truly an American icon.
There is no way I'm giving up my precious bandwidth! They'll have to pry my speedy 28.8k modem from my cold, dead fingers!!!!
But 10 years of serious study and deep understanding still doesn't give you those years of .NET experience.
.NET experience, which can easily be "coasting", as you say.
.NET experience is a liar.)
What employers really WANT is someone who has that kind of deep understanding, but what they tell HR to look for is 10 years
(Well, except that anyone with 10 years of
If you have 10 years experience in anything in computing, then 90% of what you have learned in that 10 years is out of date or obsolete.
Productivity doesn't scale linearly with experience.
So it's un-American to not have 10 years .NET experience?
Most job descriptions for ANY tech company are overly specific, requiring experience with particular technologies that a reasonably skilled programmer can learn in a few weeks at most. And that's what HR departments use when they're screening resumes. Is it any wonder that they can't find the workers they want?
the RIAA and MPAA would find this kind of law very useful.
Hmm.
Nobody knows who they were
Or what they were doing...
(But they did have the sense to make Stonehenge a bit taller than 18".)
how many Libraries of Congress you can fit into an elephant with this technology.
but who will protect our precious bodily fluids from being impurified?
Paging Gen. Jack D. Ripper!!!
So, is this a plot to make ALL the news "Fair and Balanced"?
Does that mean that someone is going to wake up next to a horse's head?
One problem: I believe that the BOFH has prior art, and is willing to use it.
Now if only Microsoft could develop a system for delivering electric shocks to users who run untrusted executables they receive in email, that would be something.
Now, if only I could use my prescient powers to figure out which story I'm replying to.
NASA manages to get a satellite photo of what the Fremen have been bribing the Spacing Guild to keep hidden.
Heh. I'll bet that Duke Nukem Forever will have a completely parametric storyline when it comes out, too.
When did "forking" come to mean "releasing plugins for a product"?
Yup, that was my first thought, too.
There's nothing like the sensation of shooting yourself in the foot.
First, learn to play the banjo. Once you have mastered the art of banjo playing, it should be easy to purchase a Wii or PS3.
Unless you already know how to play the banjo, that is.
They'll just try to teach you a bunch of evil stuff about Darwin and other Godless Commies.
(At least, that seems to be the current American zeitgeist.)
If your car runs on synthetic oil, you should really consider having the engine overhauled.