Hello, wrt my earlier question, the following blog is a nice writeup. I realize its Ruby, but the general principles of posting on a newsgroup/forum apply.
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/posts/jamesbritt/and_your_Mom_too.html Thank you, Jayanth On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Srijayanth Sridhar <srijaya...@gmail.com>wrote: > Yeah, I second your thoughts on incompetence. My company's conducting > interviews of freshers, and you'll be amazed at the answers I get for "What > is a hash table?". One bright bulb answered it with "It is a hash function > table". My standard opening interview question is to ask them to write a > simple C program that reverses a string. Most get that wrong. In two years, > I've only seen about 10 candidates get that right. > > I've come to lament the factory like nature of IT in India. People learn > extremely minimal subset of specialized skills. I've had chaps who can't see > beyond .NET or Java very simply because these are industry idioms. I tell > them stuff about perl, python or ruby and I get back "but those are > scripting languages". > > Jayanth > > > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:13 PM, Sriram Narayanan <sriram...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Sridhar >> Ratnakumar<sridhar.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Now do you think a person who is lazy to type a few characters in an >> > Internet search engine (as evidenced by "Is there any tutorial. Should >> > we include any library?") would be interested at all in reading a >> > 60,000 words document? >> >> I've concluded that a vast number of our developers are actually >> incompetent, and also clueless on how to self-study and to conduct a >> search. Perhaps our education system has conditioned their minds to >> mug up and to read various study guides, and they are unaware that in >> the real world, self help is necessary. >> >> Having said that, I have felt it useful to reply to such posts with a >> google search url, than to merely ask them to buzz off. I've observed >> that with such replies, free loaders understand that they will get >> responses, but not free lunches. >> >> -- Sriram >> _______________________________________________ >> BangPypers mailing list >> BangPypers@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers >> > >
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