Apr-30-2017, 08:52 AM
The sad side effect of the bubble of 2000 was that it did not take much to be hired in hi-tech.
About 16 years ago - the deflated bubble was still holding in some places
, I had to transfer a support of a chip driver to a colleague.
Being a chip driver, that piece of code contained playing around with bits - and my colleague absolutely refused to understand the code
. When the guy was eventually terminated, his team leader quipped :
About 16 years ago - the deflated bubble was still holding in some places
, I had to transfer a support of a chip driver to a colleague.Being a chip driver, that piece of code contained playing around with bits - and my colleague absolutely refused to understand the code
. When the guy was eventually terminated, his team leader quipped :Quote:I can't believe <our group leader> has hired him in in the first place
Test everything in a Python shell (iPython, Azure Notebook, etc.)
- Someone gave you an advice you liked? Test it - maybe the advice was actually bad.
- Someone gave you an advice you think is bad? Test it before arguing - maybe it was good.
- You posted a claim that something you did not test works? Be prepared to eat your hat.