"Having lived in the same city as MIT for over a decade..."
Since when is Boston the same city as Cambridge?
"I've spoken to a lot of managers at high-tech companies that won't hire fresh MIT grads because a)they don't know anything actually useful and b)they think they know everything, so when they're doing something wrong, they don't listen to coworkers, team leaders, and managers."
Your experience with high-tech companies is apparently very limited, and I suspect entirely made up. Go to an MIT recruiting fair sometime, they're in that city across the river.
"My favorite example is the manager who told me about the MIT programmer he hired that wouldn't use constants...he's plug in the same number 50 times in his algorithm, instead of defining a properly named constant...and his variable names were hilariously bad. Basically, it was clear he never learned proper programming techniques. Despite the manager's insistence that he define constants, etc (ie follow company coding standards), the guy kept doing it his way."
Sounds like a bad manager to me. Why would he ever hire an inexperienced programmer?
"Ever wonder why so many MIT grads work for other MIT grads?"
No, not really, it's pretty obvious.
"It's because they're un-employable by anyone else."
Just... NO.
How did this troll ever get modded up to a 4? Mod parent down.
What an arrogant fuck. You attempt to belittle me by "correcting" some imaginary grammar mistake? Go crawl back into that pathetic little hole you came from, nerd boy.
Since when is being an item in a list named "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" the same as being some random ass item that happens to be referred to in an article about the list? Maybe thats how things go down in the Star Wars Trek universe you live in in your head, but this is not the case in human society.
I can't understand why these guys are searching so hard for life in light. There have to be at least a dozen half-dead bugs in the ceiling light about 7 feet away from me.
"what stops a hacker spying on you for less legitimate reasons?"
Sounds like you're concerned about someone observing your behavior while you watch porn.
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You would certainly be right if he happened to be a computer science major. Either he was not or the parent completely made him and the story up.
"Having lived in the same city as MIT for over a decade..."
Since when is Boston the same city as Cambridge?
"I've spoken to a lot of managers at high-tech companies that won't hire fresh MIT grads because a)they don't know anything actually useful and b)they think they know everything, so when they're doing something wrong, they don't listen to coworkers, team leaders, and managers."
Your experience with high-tech companies is apparently very limited, and I suspect entirely made up. Go to an MIT recruiting fair sometime, they're in that city across the river.
"My favorite example is the manager who told me about the MIT programmer he hired that wouldn't use constants...he's plug in the same number 50 times in his algorithm, instead of defining a properly named constant...and his variable names were hilariously bad. Basically, it was clear he never learned proper programming techniques. Despite the manager's insistence that he define constants, etc (ie follow company coding standards), the guy kept doing it his way."
Sounds like a bad manager to me. Why would he ever hire an inexperienced programmer?
"Ever wonder why so many MIT grads work for other MIT grads?"
No, not really, it's pretty obvious.
"It's because they're un-employable by anyone else."
Just... NO.
How did this troll ever get modded up to a 4? Mod parent down.
He could always just move every week or so when his work location changes.
In Soviet Russia DNA database tracks legal workers.
Oh wait...
"Who are they going to ally with?"
The dark side, obviously.
Are you blind or just retarded?
What an arrogant fuck. You attempt to belittle me by "correcting" some imaginary grammar mistake? Go crawl back into that pathetic little hole you came from, nerd boy.
Since when is being an item in a list named "The 25 Worst Tech Products of All Time" the same as being some random ass item that happens to be referred to in an article about the list? Maybe thats how things go down in the Star Wars Trek universe you live in in your head, but this is not the case in human society.
..nor Clippy appear in the list.
Actually... if you interacted with live people more often you might have a better working knowledge of English, and able to read my comment correctly.
Clearly the article is flawed, neither Windows Vista nor Clippy appear in the list.
In Soviet Russia, Honda Robots control Brain Waves!
I, for one, welcome our new shocker-wielding robotic overlords.
I can't understand why these guys are searching so hard for life in light. There have to be at least a dozen half-dead bugs in the ceiling light about 7 feet away from me.
"..and the sun doesn't always shine." It does on the Sun.
"what stops a hacker spying on you for less legitimate reasons?" Sounds like you're concerned about someone observing your behavior while you watch porn.