You need to travel more. You will find that this is true of every nation and culture.

Welcome to human civilization, and the modus operandi that has been in place since we started gathering in permanent, sedentary villages.

Bingo.

Because she is a visible public-speaking figure with the power to lobby for or against things. For better or worse what matters in this world is not what you know but your power to influence policy making. This is not to say knowing and ability to influence are mutually exclusive, nor I'm saying whether Chelsea Clinton is qualified to say what is needed or not in STEM education.

I'm simply saying that if *you* (the generic you) do not care what a public speaker with the potential power of influence (directly or by political/family ties) says simply because some perceived or real lack of technical acumen, *you* are an idiot.

It is like saying "why should we care what a Creationist politician thinks?" and then wondering why state legislation bodies keep passing idiotic laws regarding STEM education in public schools.

Stupid, right?

Against, this is not say whether Chelsea Clinton is onto something or is completely unqualified to speak about the subject, but more about an indictment in ./'s collective technotard arrogance and cluelessness on how the world operates. That your post actually gets modded as insightful is a pathetic example of that sad state of affairs among people who consider themselves techno-illuminated.

Just to play devils' advocate: if you heard people's last minute plans to mount a suicide attack at a market or checkpoint, and you only have a short time to lob a spitfire at them to prevent that, is that censorship?

I mean, I get the general gist of what you mean, but you need to be more articulate and precise, and provide a much better context to your argument.

To RTFA?

That's pretty much true anywhere, so...

Because the numbers and severity of his crimes warrant so. First time shoplifter? Juvie. Raping another kid while having several priors? Most likely goes to an adult court. I don't see what the problem with this is, specially if said kid is already a 16 year old teenager, not a 10 or 9 year old kid.

Good lord man, take an Economics class.

Bullshit. I believe there is a problem with too many H1-B visas being given, but your claim is bullshit.

Enterprise, government contracting. It's all the same (I know, I've seen it, it's ugly.)

I agree with you. I have no clue what that has to do with my post, or how my post runs counter to that sentiment. Reading comprehension much? Searching for a strawman?

I have a hard time seeing someone understanding routing in practical terms if he/she does not understant subnetting notation. It is not rocket science.

I would agree with you here, and I would have a problem with an interviewer asking people to write a DNS zone file from scratch. But depending on the position and the candidate's seniority, a question regarding the general steps of writing a DNS zone file (the how and why), again, in very general terms, that would not be a completely unreasonable thing.

And the thing is, knowing to go to Wikipedia, that is also a skill, one that is seriously missing. And some shit takes 20 minutes to learn, and they are repeatable tasks for particular job positions. Candidates to those positions should not them without having to consult Wikipedia. If not, sorry, red flag.

I mean, it takes 20 minutes to know how the IP stack works, or what pre-conditions and post-conditions are. That doesn't mean one should accept people who do not know them. You ask these questions to filter those who do not.

Yes there are. College courses and immersion programs about. Not having a way to learn a foreign language while living in a developed country == first world problem.

The scheme involves become a linguist and travel abroad. For such things, there are no easy-to-get, get-lean-or-rich-by-taking-a-pill schemes.

If you are doing a CS degree, you need to clearly put in your head that there is more than web development in CS. If you really want to do back-end development, you need to disabuse yourself of the notions that come with basic front-end web design. I'm not trying to be an ass, but everything that you mentioned is assumed to be very fundamental knowledge. That alone won't get you to open most doors.

That is the sad states of technology nowadays. As I mentioned before, I started my career with a AA degree in the early 90's. That was the time when companies starting tightening the requisites. I saw the writings on the wall, and I kept studying until I got my 4-year degree in CS, and then went to grad school.

I honestly believe 70% of work done in IT (be it sysadmin or development) does not require a full-blown degree in Computer Science. Sadly, nowadays, there is no fucking way anyone can get a decent IT or development job without a 4-year degree. It is what it is, and we cannot wish it away.

It has been like that even during the times when a AA degree would get you an entry level programming position.

Yes, because only one year of CS classes just won't cut it. It didn't cut it before, it won't cut it now. Consider that there are a lot of people with degrees already that are looking for a job. That will be your competition, so you know that the odds are against you... for now. What I did then, and what you can do now is to get a part-time job at your college in the computer lab, be it by tutoring, teaching or just regular IT maintenance. If you can get close to the sysadmins at your CS department, pester them until you get a job with them. There is always lots of programming opportunities in terms of sysadmin automation.

If you are lucky, they'll be working with a bug tracking system, and that exposure will put you ahead of many people upon graduation. When you work part-time for the CS department, you begin to meet people. Those connections have the potential to open doors in terms of internships when you get to your junior year.

Don't look at your CS department as just a source of courses to take, but a venue where to make professional connections. That is what I did, and it has paid itself a million times over the length of my professional life.