[sdiy] Who Needs a Degree?

[Veronica Merryfield]

On 2010-05-28, at 5:32 PM, Paul Schreiber wrote:

> I think the worse thing to ever happen to EE was the 64K DRAM (the beginning of 
> the ruination of programming and digital design).

I think it was the jump from 2K. 

> To address Veronica's lament: when Tandy was designing ASICs for the Tandy Sensation (world's first

The worse case in question had an excellent CV, Cambridge CS grad (perhaps that should have told me something*) with the last 5 years of working with MFC. My starting C++ questions is "What do you understand the term 'this' to mean?". They had no idea. My followup questions on classes didn't go very far either so it wasn't nerves.

Vrnc

* I had a colleague, also a Cambridge CS grad, with whom I designed and wrote a virtual machine and assembler so that we could play virus wars against each other using lunch time only to work at it, leaving the war to run until the next lunch time. It's amazing how much you can get a hand full of instructions to do. We had a few join in after a while. I hasten to add this is the only time I have ever written hostile viral code and can say it is a good job none of the virus writers in the wild are any good at writing code.