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Comment: Re:Caste system (Score 1) 304

by Khashishi (#43931381) Attached to: Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India

You mention both the caste system and the test system, but I thought the whole point of the standardized test system was to get away from the caste system to something more meritocratic. Perhaps the British did a little bit of good to India in this regard. I know it's possible for a dalit to become a professor, provided ze scores well on tests. So at least in academia, the test system is having some positive effect.

Comment: not so important for the DEGREE (Score 1) 656

by Khashishi (#43874883) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree?

Of course, it could be useful for a future job, depending on what that may be. You'll never miss that skill that you don't have, because you'll naturally move yourself into what you are capable of. You won't need much math for front end stuff, user interfaces, accessing a database, code monkey stuff. Actually, you don't need much CS either. But if you want to get into physics simulations, signal processing, graphics/audio processing, finance, video games, writing a database, ..., that math knowledge would come in handy.

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