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Quote: I got turned into for abuse for suggesting that a poster do some bench checking on their homework before posting in QA asking someone to do it for them.
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Yep. Apparently it's rude and abusive if you ask people to make a teeny tiny bit of effort to do their own work.
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We have been recruiting for a junior developer.
I set a test, which was reasonably simple.
We saw a number of people who claimed to have .Net skills and only one of them recognised the Substring method.
Two of them had firsts in computer science
In the end we have recruited someone who did not recognise the method, however once I explained it to them in the interview they went on to solve the problem.
They were also one of the only candidates who took an interest in IT in their spare time. We were looking for someone who codes because they enjoy it not because they want a 'career' in IT and it did seem that many of the candidates we saw were those who wanted a 'career' in IT.
There are lots of article on this issue. I have read up on it, as I was shocked at the standard of programming skills among computer science graduates we saw.
It turns out that many universities are not encouraging their students to program outside of their university assignments.
So for all the IT graduates out there - if you want to get a job after you graduate, make sure you train yourselves, don't just rely on being fed course material by your university - become autodidacts.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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One of the reasons I posted this here was a sequence of questions from someone whose application was rejected by internal audit because:
- It transmitted passwords in clear text
- It was open to SQL injection
- Resource information was openly available
I resisted the temptation to ask the OP how they managed to get the job in the first place. The worrying thing is how many others like that don't get found out in time.
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First line of the article:
"UK universities are failing to teach cyber security skills anything even remotely useful in the real world."
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Sad, but true in too many cases.
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I think most of those graduates worked at one of my recent employers. Worse IT department ever. We had network outages at least once a week, some lasting hours. Due to the nature of our software, that would shut us all down within an hour.
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... are the ones about German sausages!
Sorry, Know it's old, but I couldn't keep it in. It's too hot for a coat now...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
modified 6-Aug-14 6:41am.
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You wouldn't want a German Sausage with a Jacket[^] anyway: You want it with Chilli[^] instead - you need the moisture.
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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Time to fetch something to eat...
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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OriginalGriff wrote: German Sausage with a Jacket[^]
That looks like a boiled potato to me.
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Foreign Heathen! 
That's a Jacket, or Baked Potato[^]: it's cooked a lot longer and slower than a boiled potato and it retains it's skin - which goes all crispy and tasty. The inside is light and fluffy, and with a little butter, maybe some cheese, it's a Comfort Food meal all on it's own...
For best results, cook in the ashes of a bonfire, or an oven if you must, but never, ever eat one that has been in a microwave. 
"Boiled potato" indeed! :tch:
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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When I read German Sausage with a Jacket and clicked on a provided link i was expecting to see a sausage. But what did I get ? A potato. 
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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Let's recap: you are disappointed because you didn't get the pic of a German sausage you were expecting?
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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Totally !
Microsoft ... the only place where VARIANT_TRUE != true
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I didn't realize that "German Sausage" was welsh for "Potato".
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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It isn't: "Potato" is Welsh for "Uncooked Chip" (or "Uncooked Fries" for our Colonial friends)
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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If he eats a sausage after bathing has a German gone from bad to wurst?
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Silly you - Germans don't bathe - they just order the filth to disappear... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I thought it was about Eurovision.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Somewhere I read this in a signature:
The worst source code, that you can come across, is the code you wrote on your own one year ago.
I just remember this, because I'm sitting in front of some part of my own code that is three or four years old.
Ok, to see it positive: I learned a lot in the past years.
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I disagree. I love my code I wrote 15 years ago, despite the fact that it was VB6.
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Shameel wrote: despite the fact that it was VB6.
Burn the heretic!
You looking for sympathy?
You'll find it in the dictionary, between sympathomimetic and sympatric
(Page 1788, if it helps)
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