Currently, after arriving home I pwn victims in starcraft II after a long day of work. Having to drive, ingest food and sleep is so time consuming...

modified on Friday, August 19, 2011 1:07 PM

Remember when you could throw batch scripts into the windows start up process? I did this once and put a message like 'To delete all the files from this computer please press any key...' I heard second hand that the computer wasn't started for the whole day and at least four 'technicians' came to look at it. definitely the most productive use of batching.

digital is here to stay, if you don't like it address the issues at hand. build a drive that you can pass down generation to generation. use only formats which are not proprietary. someday languages will change (format) and books will become obsolete as well. so who really cares about permanance anyways, evolve.

I graduated in 2003, from a highly rated computer science program. I was exposed to many of the fundamentals, I've read knuth and the whole bit. I have always wanted to believe that knowing the "nuts and bolts" makes you better and I still probably do. However, in my current experience (5+ years working) that it has not helped me and people from other backgrounds do just as well knowing only the latest C# web controls. It is an interesting question however, is there another field where if you know the last 5 years of technology and nothing else you might be better suited than someone who has been in the business for decades?