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OriginalGriff wrote:
Never post your email address in and forum, unless you really like spam!

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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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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

Jeez, I dont know, how about a text app that can send receive with another text app using sockets?

Holy crap, what sort of IT professionals are colleges producing these days?

Lazy ones that can't be bothered to think for themselves, to a large extent judging by QA.

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Munchies_Matt wrote:
colleges producing

Munchies_Matt wrote:
IT professionals

Colleges do not produce professionals, professions produce them.

I think that universities should teach method and the framework of technology (how networks work, what's an operating system and what does it actually do, how does a generic processor work, a programming language for each paradigm and not much more) and the rest falls on the individual. That's because if the universities teach the current state of the art while neglecting the basis they would produce individuals that would decay in a decade since single technologies move forward and they'd lack the basis to understand the change. I could choose between the University of Turin, where I would have learned a lot of new shiny technologies, or the Politechnic university of Turin, where the focus in on generic Engineering steered towards computer science. I chose the latter and didn't regret it as I saw in these years that I'm really far more versatile than those who graduated at the former.

Of course many universities fail in both cases...

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That is a good point, with the fundamentals well understood the day to day technology, that goes in and out of fashion, is easy to understand.

However.... When I was doing OO SW design post grad we had to use Small Talk, since it was supposedly a 'pure' OO language. Problem is I spent so much time caught up on the frigging awful syntax of the language that I couldnt focus on the OO architectural aspect of the job.

And how much use is assembler these days?

Pros and cons, pros and cons.

However this OP clearly has a very poor understanding of what a messenger is, the clue is in the name really, messages and transport. Its such a simple design, and as for using SQL to implement it, what the f&^* is he thinking!

Munchies_Matt wrote:
However.... When I was doing OO SW design post grad we had to use Small Talk, since it was supposedly a 'pure' OO language. Problem is I spent so much time caught up on the frigging awful syntax of the language that I couldnt focus on the OO architectural aspect of the job.

I don't know when it was but it there was a time where it was pushed as TheNextBigThing.

Munchies_Matt wrote:
And how much use is assembler these days?

More than you and me can imagine, real time systems are actually fairly popular in automation and assembler is paramount in those fields (I work in automation). Also high parallelism computing-intensive operations require either assembler or a solid understanding of it to use the lockless paradigms and understand what memory fences are and how they impact performance and functionality (i.e. the system doesn't deadlock). Compilers and hardware integration / developement are two fields where assembler is still going strong as many PICs have poor, incomplete or no C support at all.

Munchies_Matt wrote:
However this OP clearly has a very poor understanding of what a messenger is, the clue is in the name really, messages and transport. Its such a simple design, and as for using SQL to implement it, what the f&^* is he thinking!

And a fellow former student I know, graduated with full grades, didn't know he could nest ifs in C - he spent 40 minutes trying to figure out how could he do

if (con1) {
 //something
} else {
 if (con2){
  // somethingelse
 } else {
  // anothersomething
 }
}

And he's not the only one of the people I know (and I'm fairly antisocial to boot) in that situation - he was possibly the worst case but still... Dead | X|

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OK, didnt know assembler was used that much still, I thought most embedded had gone to C these days.

And talking of code horrors, I remember VB programmer who used a global variable for various purposes. He actually commented this as 'very efficient programming' in the code. It was, needless to say, very confusing to read since its name reflected only one of its uses.

FROM MY PHYSICS TEACHER
A pirate captain has a stomach of a perfect sphere of r = 23 cm.
He also has a mug of a shape of frustum cone of r = 7 cm, R = 12 cm and h = 32 cm.
Each evening the captain drinks 3 full mugs and a half (half in height not in volume).
How old the captain?

Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.

modified 16-Mar-17 18:01pm.

42. And his name is Roger.

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