"Stereotype fools, playing their game, nothing unique, they all look the same..."

[gargaj]

I just suffered through 80 minutes of headfuck sold as a high school lecture held by an overweight sweating nitwit with bottle-bottom glasses, half unbuttoned shirt and a textbook case of a Tourette-syndrome (I shit you negative), performing something that ends up as a PowerPoint showoff ridden by semantic and syntactic errors (partly "corrected"

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Quality Education

[ctrix]

That's crap! Do you ever sit and wander why these guys are teaching instead of trying to venture out into the REAL world to try out their self proclaimed "super-knowledge"? Hm. Oh, and as for students who mingle their way into high places - it's who they know, not what they know. A result of the crap they spun in the interview about the quality of their education and ability to "adapt to any situation". Teh

[anonymous]

Ain't it what the whole life is all about? There're always people who are "just above you" and they're not the best ones around.
Concerning the character you described. He looks like some old-school "fortran me beatiful" dude, who has to master a new university program/paradigm (which he just can't understand). Can do it better? Why don't you fricking teach in that case =D ?! Most of the ones who are able to cope with those things are mostly working out there.
And please don't blame managed code (just like Spolsky did) and don't tell me you never had leaks (and you DO write virtual destructors all the time ;) ). It's good for its own purposes and can really save a lot of time.

BTW Mandatory lectures? Bullshit, never of that shit! Means you won't be able to access exams?

/LOLzorblogstar

[gargaj]

I'm not blaming managed code, I'm frowning upon education's crusade to bring it on the holy altar as the next best thing since sliced Algol 60.

Managed code is good, but it's not the best fitting solution for most of the problems in an IT job. It's what you said - convenient.