On Jan 30, 2008 2:14 PM, Joshua Zeidner <
jjzeidner@gmail.com> 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."
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