Not having unsigned types is probably the second dumbest decision in Java's design, after compulsory garbage collection.
If these things are important to you, then you are programming in an arena where Java is the wrong choice. These are not defects in Java's design, but Java is not the best language for, say, writing device drivers.
Which is also why I don't understand why programmers and IT usually put down other departments like sales and marketing.
Part of it might be because the sales guy drank and partied his way through college while the science majors were suffering through actual hard work. There just might be some resentment that somebody who made no actual contribution to a technical product just got a huge commission off it.
I agree, and it would be a better policy to define acronyms the first time they are used. The same could be said about the names of software packages in other summaries. I'm mystified that so many commenters are miffed that GPU is explained.
That's an unfair comment. Acronyms can stand for more than one thing, and a good writer's intent is not to show how much smarter they are than their readers.
Social interaction is education. Did any undergraduates actually learn anything from their professors? The only things I remember learning, I learned from my peers.
Why does it bother you to work for someone younger than you?
If you have more than a few years of experience you probably aren't willing to work 70 hour weeks for entry level pay, and therefore are overqualified.
This, this, a thousand times this.
It's nice that you can cite examples of casually dressed folks that have landed jobs, but why sabotage oneself? When an interviewee shows up without a suit it means (1) that they were too clueless to know that some interviewers would take that as a lack of respect, or (2) they knew it but felt that their skills were so awesome that they could deliberately do so anyway. Why hire the ignorant or the arrogant if there are alternatives?
Illegal or not, agedness is not "suspect class" in the U.S. if I recall correctly. This means that the burden of proof for age discrimination falls on the plaintiff, not on the company. Such lawsuits are therefore difficult for the prospective employee to win.
Um. The earth is not an inertial frame of reference.
It's not? I sure don't feel like I'm moving.
The forces causing the earth to orbit the sun, and not vice versa can be observed directy.
How exactly do I observe them? Are you sure that's what you meant to type?
Copernican theory was picked up fairly quickly because it offered a simpler view of the cosmos. Astronomers bought into it largely because of its simplicity -- in effect, following Occam's Razor.
These are two very widely held beliefs, but they are false. The Copernican model of the solar system was not less complicated than Ptolemy's. It even had more epicycles, for example. It also never displaced the preeminence of the Ptolemaic model in the minds of many astronomers as you suggest. Basically, Ptolemy's model gave the right answers, so why abandon it?
Years later, Kepler's model was indeed simpler. But Copernicus was neither simpler nor more popular than Ptolemy. We remember him, though, because heliocentrism is essentially correct.
While I won't claim there is enough evidence yet to concluded that there is life on Mars, there is more then "no evidence".
I agree. Their response was careless.
The best software development managers were formerly software developers themselves.
Citation needed.
But seriously, these are completely different skills.
Wouldn't you be able to evaluate all these things to an even greater degree by sticking the candidate in a room for 2 hours and having him complete a slightly more involved coding task instead of ask him to write out snippets on a white board by hand?
I agree. Even more telling might be spending a little time looking at their open source contributions, which reflect actual development, unencumbered by nerves, the clock, and an unfamiliar environment.
In corporate Amerika, harassment is not illegal unless the harassment falls under a protected category like race or gender.
A minor quibble. Even outside of a protected class, it's still illegal, but the burden of proof falls upon the plaintiff instead of the company. This makes such cases harder to win, but not impossible.
"Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!"
