A few thoughts on hackers and spelling: Like most people who are reading this I never thought spelling mattered at all. I have never had any trouble getting any jobs that I wanted due to my lake of English know how. I remember overhearing the hr people at my company talking about the atrocious spelling on some of the resumes that we get. This has never stopped us from hiring anyone and I agree that it shouldn't.
However, as of late I have been increasingly aware of the terrible spelling from most of the posts I read on./ and newsgroups and such. Why is it that proper spelling is considered of such low importance that we can't even run our stuff through ispell? Maybe I am just getting older (late 20's) but no matter what the content, the apparent childishness of a writing seems to be linear with the amount of misspellings.
Do you understand the difference between "your" and "you're"? How about "smiths", "smith's", and "smiths'"? Do you know when to use "to" and when to use "too"? Is it "responsible" or "responsable"?
Yes, it is cool that we work in a field where your logic ability is all that really counts, but maybe we should begin to take some pride in our written communication skills for their own sake?
"...even though their skill level is as high or higher than the young guns out there." This may be true if you attempt to measure skill level by counting technical terms on a resume and multiply by years of experience. However, in my personal experience, most older poeple don't know what the hell they are doing. Maybe this is because younger people are not afraid to admit that they don't know something, so they learn more? What I can say for sure is, given the choice between someone with a college degree who has been working with computers for 30 yrs, and a high school drop out linux hacker, you get way better work, and more of it, from the high school drop out. Just so you know where I am coming from, I do have a college degree (BS in CS) and have been out of school for about 3 yrs. I learned a lot in college and totally enjoyed it (it was hard and I had to pay my own way through it, but I got a lot out of it), but my I would be way better of right now in terms of money and career if I had quit in high school and just stayed home and coded.
ignorant savage: (n) people who keep having babies without the means to feed them.
Sorry, but I just cannot seem to understand your point of view.
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Ah yes! Very good point. As soon as smtp/pop3 is taxed there will be smtp_avoidtax1/pop3_avoidtax1. As soon as smtp_avoidtax1/pop3_avoidtax1 is taxed...
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Stop it now, I mean it....
A few thoughts on hackers and spelling:
./ and newsgroups and such. Why is it that proper spelling is considered of such low importance that we can't even run our stuff through ispell? Maybe I am just getting older (late 20's) but no matter what the content, the apparent childishness of a writing seems to be linear with the amount of misspellings.
Like most people who are reading this I never thought spelling mattered at all. I have never had any trouble getting any jobs that I wanted due to my lake of English know how. I remember overhearing the hr people at my company talking about the atrocious spelling on some of the resumes that we get. This has never stopped us from hiring anyone and I agree that it shouldn't.
However, as of late I have been increasingly aware of the terrible spelling from most of the posts I read on
Do you understand the difference between "your" and "you're"? How about "smiths", "smith's", and "smiths'"? Do you know when to use "to" and when to use "too"?
Is it "responsible" or "responsable"?
Yes, it is cool that we work in a field where your logic ability is all that really counts, but maybe we should begin to take some pride in our written communication skills for their own sake?
my 00000010 cents.
Just in case you don't know... an ' means a contraction. "You're" is a contraction of "You are". The word you want is "your".
But COME ON MAN! You'reself? That really should have clued you in.
Maybe next he can supply an Excel Spreadsheet of his cracking exlpoits.
Hahahaha!
Exactly how do you "stand up" to an executive order?
I would love to have my views heard about spending my very very hard earned tax money on this sort of bs, but who do I tell? How do I tell them?
"...even though their skill level is as high or higher than the young guns out there."
This may be true if you attempt to measure skill level by counting technical terms on a resume and multiply by years of experience. However, in my personal experience, most older poeple don't know what the hell they are doing. Maybe this is because younger people are not afraid to admit that they don't know something, so they learn more? What I can say for sure is, given the choice between someone with a college degree who has been working with computers for 30 yrs, and a high school drop out linux hacker, you get way better work, and more of it, from the high school drop out. Just so you know where I am coming from, I do have a college degree (BS in CS) and have been out of school for about 3 yrs. I learned a lot in college and totally enjoyed it (it was hard and I had to pay my own way through it, but I got a lot out of it), but my I would be way better of right now in terms of money and career if I had quit in high school and just stayed home and coded.
ignorant savage: (n) people who keep having babies without the means to feed them.
Sorry, but I just cannot seem to understand your point of view.
Ah yes! Very good point. As soon as smtp/pop3 is ...
taxed there will be smtp_avoidtax1/pop3_avoidtax1.
As soon as smtp_avoidtax1/pop3_avoidtax1 is taxed
Oh. Sorry. I said redhat because I know I have seen it on rh 5.1, 5.2, and have never seen it on Debian or Slackware.
I am not sure that I know what I am talking about but I believe that file only exists on redhat distros. Does anyone else know...?
not everything that Microsoft has done is bad. They've actually come up with some good things believe it or not
Like what?