The previous icons weren't great. These new icons aren't any worse, and more importantly, they are easily recognizable. If you remember what your documents directory looks like, you're going to recognize the new one, too.

Absolutely. A double failure. (by not failing)

It hasn't increased. Probably the high-point for this worry was the Luddites. And another high-point was in the 50s, when computers were first coming out, and movies played on that worry. When was the last movie where a job-taking-computer was the main villain?

There aren't many programmers who live up to your definition of 'good.' If they built a computer from scratch in their CS program, they would have gotten closer to 'good', whether they started before college or not.

The sort of programs you call 'software engineering' are not scoped to be 4 year degree. They can be done in two years at Devry or something.

I do completely agree with you that universities are doing what you describe, but I feel those universities are ripping students off (by charging them too much and teaching them too little).

Simple solution: don't put your phone number on your resume.

When you get emails, then start by telling them "I am not interested in anything less than $180k" (or whatever the market will carry in your area). That will weed out everyone but the companies that pay well.

They tried that on the 64 bit switch with Itanium. People hated it and switched to AMD64.

You are someone who knows facts but does not understand them. If Bismark were still alive, he would have gotten the land without losing a war.

Why did you stop?

It was definitely a land dispute. France wanted their land back that they lost to Germany in 1870. The Germans were remembering Frederick the Great, emulating his land grabs. The British offered territory to Italy to join the fight.

No one cared much about Serbia: even Austria didn't care too much. To think that the war was about the assassination is to overlook a lot of history. The assassination was merely the trigger so many people were hoping for.

That's really interesting. I knew a guy who preferred recursion over iteration, even for straight loops, but he was a math major.

You don't need silicon to build a computer. You need and/or/not gates. If you don't realize that, you're out of your league.

I don't know, what kind of material are you thinking of using?

That could be. It wasn't a well-planned statement, to be sure.

You ask that question because you took it too literally. You lack reading comprehension. You didn't understand the point he was trying to make: you missed the forest for the trees, and in your question you are focusing on trees.