On Jan 30, 2008 2:14 PM, Joshua Zeidner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > center. I find myself having to hobble my own skills and training in > order to please the various parochial department managers and other > kinds of 'self-proclaimed geniouses' when working in Phx. For > instance encountering someone who insists that a CS degree is > meaningless but knowledge of 'smart pointers' in C++ is invaluable and > an objective metric of your total knowledge. -jmz
Interesting. That is another discussion entirely, but requiring a CS degree does weed out a lot of people who have no idea about computer architecture. This is usually a good thing, because such people usually build poor software. However, there are many tech geniuses that have no formal degrees. Michal Zalewski is one I can think of off the top of my head. Go read his book: Silence on the Wire. Very interesting. Google hired him last year, but he has been hacking industry code for a long time... -- Kristian Erik Hermansen "Know something about everything and everything about something." --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
