Other people's styles definitely present a challenge, no matter how "good" it is. Problem with bad is definitely there. So many more ways to do it poorly than there are to do something well!

I am fortunate to work at a place where very high standards of technical excellence are upheld. Pretty much all managers come from an accomplished technical background, and many continue to practice. Non-technical managers will defer to a considerable extent on technical matters.

Though you didn't seem to intend to reply to me, I would support your point. I agree that it is valid to be aggressive if you truly believe in what you have to say, but should still maintain tact so communication is as effective as possible. It just seems that the tact must be missing for someone that junior and considering the OP seemed to suggest he did this coming right in the door, though not necessarily, so long as he has adequately reviewed the code.

Additionally, though, as someone mentioned elsewhere, one must be wary of those who are better arguers than they are critics.

...longevity should be limited, I would (severe, though probably merited by his superior (for an underling) attitude) tend to reduce the priority of his learning experience. If he was under evaluation for a permanent position, I would think this confidence/arrogance should buy him an earlier than usual trial-by-fire of a somewhat substantial project, or at least a portion of one he can lead the development on. Hopefully, he would do well, though probably still find himself a bit more isolated than he might otherwise have been, which should be helpfully chastening.

I disagree with this "perceiving everything they didn't write as shit" stance.

I came into a new position, my first serious one (when I was in my forties, second career field, after a couple years of good community college studies). I have experienced in depth 3-6 (3 thorough exposure, 3 partial/peripheral exposure) different, substantial code bases. Two of them where horrendous ("devil spawn"), one was not exactly a work of art, but manageable, managing considerable (reporting and logging) complexity, and the other 3 were solid to the point of being elegant, and naturally readable. And mind you, this was my first serious in depth exposure, across a variety of development platforms, including both proprietary and open source.

"Man is the measure of all things." -Protagoras

whose bearer's are no longer equipped to use them.

Close to 10%.

Biden was the first public figure I heard to say this back in the early 90's, specifically why they opposed birth control, abortion, and were subsidizing single mothers with welfare.

Though compiled code is not my area of expertise, I would think that the ability to dissect the impact of an infection and clean it would be much harder when not knowing the details of the system. And that was just my explanation after the fact when I noticed that the MSE seemed be much more effective, and run much nicer on my system than McAfee.

And speaking in general now, it has long been MS's strategy to block companies who were developing applications to run on Windows from extensive knowledge of Windows' internals, so those applications would under-perform (and thus give MS a competitive advantage to develop similar applications, such as the one in question, though in this case not for direct profit, just prestige).

that certification is worth "zippo", because MSE works much better. (Which is not surprising, considering McAfee has "zippo" access to the Windows (binaries) internals.)

Seconded!

Btw, karma is for sissies! :)

Yeah, and then you know they'd have you on the books forever!

Agreed. It really comes form inside. And some of the "attractive" ones start to look ugly after a while! :)

If I am not mistaken, and others please correct me if I am wrong, the essential trick here is that the particles are mobile, and thus can make it to the spleen, which is the key to making the spleen think that they (containing myelin antigens) are just debris from dead blood cells and thus not suitable for encoding (antibody) attack. Apparently, the spleen is able to inactivate the encoding of antibodies for materials it contacts directly?

way in. You just have to keep sending the resumes to those guys and jumping through their hoops.

If you are looking at A+ as a way to brush up your general PC internals knowledge and trouble-shooting, I think it couldn't hurt. Though few of us will practice desktop support as our primary focus, those skills are generally the most beneficial next to your primary focus wherever you go.

I once made a friend of a top tier recruiter by agreeing on short notice to join a (very temp) Dell desktop refresh at a small corporate headquarters near where I was living at the time. The lead guy walked out after the first day, and I took over to complete it successfully. After that I got the impression he would find me things, though shortly thereafter I went with something else that went long term.

I never got started in the "glory" (gravy-train) years. Nowadays I get the impression the only way in is to resurrect yourself as a fire-eater when a good pile of suffering and hell fortuitously lands on your doorstep. Seems like the days of the dependably stationed clock-watcher are pretty much over!

whatsoever, presumably the skull sizes would have to be the same? (Unless skull size follows brain size? In which case, how does intelligence track with head size, itself? I wouldn't immediately expect it to.)

Were that so, one would think so much gap would likely result in injury or some other (physical) complications.