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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Its does for a lot of jobs I am afraid and places like Google do seem to like elite universities. Also Ox-bridge along with Bath, Imperial and Queens (British telecoms Belfast engineering Center used to get the pick of those) do have a rep
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
yes that's what i was getting at theorys all very well but you need to be able to apply this to real world which is what most employers of programmers want. My first job after school (as a technical programmer) was at an Elite RnmD organist
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
well in the Uk he/she is - apparently the no2 at Martelsham ( The place where Tommy Flowers the design the first computer) One day his wife was asked what he did and when she said "oh hes an engineer" they reply was "that's nice dear what s
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
well when I did my mech enc Technician day release (in the 70's) we had to be able to design a Victorian era style central belt drive to run machines for a central prime mover.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Not according to Ross Brawn (you know the Best car designer in the world) - He and Mercedes have gone on the record that the CS grads are hopeless as they don't know the mathamatics to do CFD. Though the last time I used my Mech side was t
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Probaly not they wouldnt get 5 good GSCES which have to include english so school would be put in special needs and the head and 80% of the staff woudl be fired. And a "technical" school getting anyone into oxbridge mm that will be the day.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yes you do need to have a wider range than just CS In fact a lot of what industy needs is more Computer Enginering and lees hyper secpecialised CS majors - you dont see Audi or Mercedes saying we need engineers lets train a load of physici
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
or if google employes where downvoating negative stories it would be interesting to see the ip addresses of any down votes. normal companies ban employees from participating in online discussions about their company certinaly at British tel
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
unfortunately Googles arrogance is leading it to do just that just like MS did - it will all end in tears. Trust me as some one who worked for a regulated company you REALY REALY dont want to go there - develope a product and your not sure
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Realy? Panda has sent some medium size companies to the wall and being made redundant is not fun even less so in The US
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
From expriance (I work for a big publisher) the split between G Y and B looks about the same for the big name sites I work with. Google is even more dominant 90%+ in the Uk
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Young Developer learns to love FORTRAN (thisdeveloperslife.com)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
And in a lot of legal jurisdictions programmers work out of hours actually belongs to the employer if its related to their day job.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
But most real world probles arn't "impliment a bubble sort" pure CS problems 99% of the time you need domain knowedge to point out the the customer err you have used the wrong equaion for that design.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
The problem is that Google and a lot of newer companies fetishise CS ie computer science to an insane degree. What indistry realy wants and needs is some one who can take a problem and produce a suitable solution which is much more compute
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Hmm - I will be contacting a few MP's about this nonsensical tax situation.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Funny at least one BIG publisher i know of is looking to move from MT to WP
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Yep when we had to do work on drupal sites all the junior staff where frightened to even change add a small piece of content as the interface was so bad an the sites where prone to breaking if you made innocuous changes.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
When I interviewed at a coop they had a specific coop interview (after the technical interview) to see if you would fit the coop world view. I remember joking that you just ask a potential employee if they cried for Boxer in 1984 if the say
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
and why would the people with valuable data eg FT or Bankers or Lexis Nexis do this
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
No abysmal documentation is I am afraid endemic these days look at the mess that is googles API's Just listing methods that some programtic tool created is not documenting an API.
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
have you tried have you tried http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun... and then migrate to multi node http://www.michael-noll.com/tutorials/running-hadoop-on-ubun...
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
You do know what the cost of the prevous round of tlds was > £1,000,000. Btw I used to be one of the owners of .coop :-)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Peopel ignord the looming real estate bubble in spain and Ireland for a long time and its not exactly working out for them is it
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
What MG deosnt seem to realise that is the USA's Phone both Landline and Mobile is crap the deregulation was botched and allowed local monopolies. European telcos take great fun in laughing at the ineptitude of ATT Sprint etc and dont get
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
well we did it was just you uppity Subs that spoiled that :-) I
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Its not cheaper if you have to retain a lot of people - and Open office is not well liked by ordinary users "its shit" was one comment by a coworker at my last place And look at any advert for a Govenment IT project its always to many chief
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
err actually I think you (lib dems) have a lot more to worry about than some pious (used in its political sense here) belief by OS Zellots and hobby programmers that some how Open Office is a better solution than MS Office for a huge (larg
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
I know we have to use this shoddy half assed TCP/IP instead on the nice ITU/ISO standrads that all the countries agreed to years back :-)
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by mjwalshe 15y ago
Google are not fans of scraping and people running robots on their sites :-)

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