It's a good thing that you RTFA. That is how you knew that the second one was a detailed analysis of the exact statement from Nvidia that you linked to, showing how it did not really refute the point.

Well, when you made the choice of what OS to use you weighed the advantages and disadvantages of each. In particular, you considered the fact that the particular one that you chose was a very small portion of the market and was commonly not supported as well (or not at all) as your other options.

Now, any site that requires flash is making the decision that you are not important enough to support.

Point is, don't blame Adobe, blame yourself and those companies (and others) who require flash.

Not actually true. Based on pricing at newegg.com, a 2GB stick of DDR2 can be had for $24. A 32 GB Intel X25-E is $420. That is, DDR2 costs $12/GB and the X25-E is $13.1/GB.

Now, for the ddr drive, you have to consider the cost of the drive itself and other factors. For example, for a ddr ram drive to be practical, I think it needs at least 32GB of space. That is 16 2GB sticks (which probably won't fit in a normal sized drive enclosure) or requires using the much more expensive 4GB sticks. So yeah, in my opinion, there's not really a place for ddr ram drives in the market.

True.
Also IBM does a similar thing with ACM-ICPC world finals. They have probably dished out $1,000,000 for us here in Stockholm. And that is for a field of 300 potential hires.
I am one of the lucky few who will have benefited from both these companies programs.

No he means n * (n + 1) / 2.

For those unable to follow at home, n * (n + 1) is always divisible by 2. Let's not convert to and from floating point just for fun.

True. Great programmers are about 10000 times as productive as mediocre ones.

I've had a logitech wireless from a long time ago, mx700 i think. It's great, but for one thing; it must be put in its dock to recharge. I prefer this to using regular rechargeables as it is actually kind of convenient, but why is it necessary? That is, why can't there just be a wire that I plug into the mouse just where a normal wired mouse's wire would go. Then I could keep using it while it recharged. As it is I have had to have an extra wired mouse connected to my computer for the few times when I need to keep working when the wireless one is low on charge. So, tell me, why can't somebody do this?

I agree, knowing how to lead software development projects is very important to a computer science degree.

hard? I will be graduating in from a CS program in the spring and I can barely believe what you are saying. It blows my mind that such an easy problem can stump so many people that it could be considered a "hard" problem.

Then again, just recently we had what I considered to be a relatively simple programming assignment and many people just couldn't do it. I looked at some of my classmate's code and they were all just complete messes.

But still, you (and others) are saying that many graduates have basically learned nothing.

My worry is that, because of all these incompetent graduates, companies are unwilling to pay what a good programmer is actually worth. That is, since any company who hires a graduate has to consider the fact that their new hire might be incompetent, they will not be willing to pay as much as they would for someone that they knew was good. So, basically, all the bad programmers drag down the prospects of the good ones.

Anybody who is in charge of hiring or such, is this true? Is there any way that you can tell if a candidate is actually good? Is there anything that a good candidate could do to prove that you wouldn't be taking a risk hiring them?

Actually is is only illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, or disability.

See here.