- Feature Articles
- CodeSOD
- Error'd
- Forums
-
Other Articles
- Random Article
- Other Series
- Alex's Soapbox
- Announcements
- Best of…
- Best of Email
- Best of the Sidebar
- Bring Your Own Code
- Coded Smorgasbord
- Mandatory Fun Day
- Off Topic
- Representative Line
- News Roundup
- Editor's Soapbox
- Software on the Rocks
- Souvenir Potpourri
- Sponsor Post
- Tales from the Interview
- The Daily WTF: Live
- Virtudyne
Admin
Please, enrich the forum with further tales of your glorious battles. I am enthralled. MORE! MORE!
Admin
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>compared to the script-kiddy douche-bags, you're much more entertaining.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>just for the record, i'm really confused as to what led you to believe i was this* proud about quashing the silver-obsessed libertarian. to me, it's just a funny illustration about ideology gone awry. nothing more, nothing less.</FONT>
<FONT face="Courier New" size=2>* holds out arms as if to indicate a massive trout.</FONT>
Admin
The the original arcticle submitter: you seem to be doing a great job of confusing programming skills with natural language skills. It's hard to imagine thge applicant not being from China. Chimnese is really really different from English and no amount of C-Pound experience will beidge that gap.
Admin
SEQUELl
Squirrel
SQL
Squeal
...
perhaps it's from SQooL (as in "we should go to" ;) )
Admin
Very technically speaking, Db really isn't the same as C#. While on a fixed-pitch instrument like a piano or a guitar they are the same note, a string or a wind player would probably play slightly different pitches-- I would expect C# to be pitched slightly above Db, although it also depends on the key of the piece.
Admin
Even if on piano C# and Db is exactly the same sound, still the key of Db is much more comprehensible then the C# one.
Admin
Right on.
I know people can float through college without learning much of anything, but I don't think that's possible in most CS programs (not where I went to school, anyway). Sure, someone with no formal CS training can be just a good or better a programmer as a CS graduate, but that doesn't mean the degree is worthless. I certainly am much better off for it.
IMHO, the "not worth the paper it's printed on" crowd have their heads stuck up thier asses. Or maybe they're just jealous.
Admin
Thank you for delighting us with such relevant information, I was worried and wondering where you went, just as I was just beginning to give a fuck :)
And why do you feel the need to type in tt? Are you trying to make yourself feel different and/or superior?
Richard Nixon is a dick, but you're not much better actually. I believe Nixon tells it like it is. Maybe too muh, but you guys all bite.
Admin
Everyone knows it's pronounced ...
C plus plus .. plus plus
or
that-god-awful-java-clone-cause-M$-got-sued-by-Sun-no-serious-developer-uses-it-it's-just-M$'s-sour-grapes err.. sharp
Admin
Admin
Admin
Admin
assuming states(id,name,code), cities(id,name,state_id) i'd go for:
select name from cities where state_id in (select id from states where code='AZ')
p.s. I use "in" to manage the case where there are mistakes in the data (i.e. two state id's for AZ or no data for AZ).
Admin
I always used to write "C++" as "C-Double-Cross" on Usenet years ago. It had a rather appropriate ring to it.
And as for "SQL" (which was touched upon further up in the thread): it's lucky for speakers of English who can pronounce these things as if they were acronyms. Japanese speakers can't understand "sequel" so they have to wrestle with pronouncing it as "ESS-KYUU-ERU" all the time.
--
US$.02
Admin
"Learnt" and "Learned" are both right. Check the dictionary...
Admin
It's probably very easy for Japanese speakers to say "ess-kyuu-eru". Doesn't seem to constitute a wrestling match of any kind.
Admin
There is an IT skills shortage in the uk, the emphasis here is on skills. There are alot of IT graduates and "Programmers" but there is a serious lack of people who know what they are doing. I found a job within a month of starting the job hunt, and it pays well. But then again I am good.
Admin
You already changed if you're using '-ise'. The Times carried on using the traditional '-ize' until the latter half of the last century when it finally joined the rest of the UK in using '-ise'.
Admin
wow... this board has lived a long time. I wonder if I can find samples of my work pre-dating Y2K on here? Now that would be a WTF :)
Admin
Makes me think of an employer. Around the same year (2003 or 2004) I was applying for jobs. A large local library was hiring a web programmer and listed some very tall requirements. 15 years in development or webmaster with IIS experience. 10 years experience in Microsoft .Net, 5 years Flash...
I looked at that and was thinking, "I don't know if .Net has been around for 10 years yet... Maybe since 1998, but that is still only 5 years." I applied for the job any way giving the credentials I had. When I did get contacted for the position for a time I figured I did not get it and went in to ask about it. The secretary told me the position was filled. I asked her if she knew why I was not considered for the position. She said "experience." So I asked, "What experience did they guy who got the position have?" She replied "He met all of our requirements." I asked "Even the 10 years in .Net?" She flipped through the folder pages and quickly replied, "Actually, he had 12."
I waited a bit, considered if I should respond... then realized the silence was awkward to her and said "Um, that technology is new, I think its only been out for 5 years. Couldn't have been that far before 1998."
I will never forget the look on her face... and left very quickly. 3 weeks later the position was back in the newspaper listings... HR still had not corrected the experience requirements and from what a friend said it sounds like they went through the same thing again.
Admin
So I guess I'll call it "C-Number"
Admin
5 years of C Pound experience? I'm better than that - I got 7 years of C Hash experience!
Admin
If you don't like people saying "C-pound", then why do you write "C#" instead of "C♯"?
Admin
Last