M$ adds on Linux Today

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 15:52, Rick Sivernell wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:57:24 -0500
> Ben Duncan <bns at meta3.net> wrote:
> 
> Gents
> 
>   I have read this thread and almost cried. These people today think we are so stupid
> and we have no idea of what we are doing or have done. My son last week actually
> insulted me again on some web page and some work I have completed lately. He thinks
> his friends are the only smart ones out there and only they understand computing
> systems. They think eye candy and spiffy looking & busy web sites and the complicated
> and ill designed are what it is all about. They do not understand KISS princple and
> knowing what is happening inside the system is very important. I have found most
> software people in colleges today do not understand they craft, nor do they care.
> Just get it out, do not bug me with great design or is it give the user what they
> need. Almost we develope what we think you need and screw the user. The user is
> stupid and will take what we give them. The people thathire them suffer from the
> profit now, what future.

Don't get me started on what comes out of college. We are looking for
someone to work for us. We want some knowledge of some of the following:
C, Linux, assembler, FPGA, embedded systems, near-real time systems.
That sort of thing. No one will have all we want. But these indicate the
general idea of what we are after. What skill do our applicants possess?
HTML, VB, Access, Office. This from engineers out of university. They
are astounded that this is not the same thing as we are looking for.
Don't we program the DSPs with HTML? Don't the FPGAs run VBasic? No?
What sort of idiots are we, then? What ancient devices are we struggling
on with? Geesh.

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