Maybe they do, or maybe they don't. In many cases, I'd argue that it's more about teaching how to think and learn, rather than "an understanding calculus will be required for everything you do in the rest of school / career / life"
It really depends on the target market, regardless. Plenty of people will be quick to tell you how many enterprise companies are still stuck with IE6. And most of them are willing to write fat checks to maintain that status quo.
The second problem is even further exacerbated as early startups don't want "employees". They want "Employee #1"; someone who is passionate and ready to help push the company forward.
I'm in my senior year of college here in the US and this definitely nails it for me. I've had some solid internships where I've done actual coding / ops / etc, but I don't feel like I'm at the technical level where I could graduate and make huge impacts for a startup.
Are startups who are past the "Employee #1" phase (or even employees 2-5, I'd imagine) in a different position in regards to this? (ie more willing to bring on a recent grad, because they already have strong technical employees/leadership pushing the company forward)
My company is early stage still & we still have a very high bar for developers. That said, I hire based on a persons ability to perform, not the time they've been doing it.
If you have a github & portfolio that shows you can create, have an interest in what my company does, and can pitch it to me, I'd hire you.
Maybe this is something that many grads might not realize too, as it's quite different in contrast with hiring processes associated with Enterprise Company XYZ.
It's one of my favorite parts about startup culture in general, though. Whenever I hear people saying stuff like this (re: hiring performance vs experience) my first thought is almost always "where do I sign up?!"
This reminds me of how we figured out in our high school computer labs how to circumvent the monitoring/control software the teacher would use.
First it was succeptible to killing the process, easy enough. Once that was blocked, we figured out that some clever use of some default applications in windows would cause it to crash and give us freedom. After those vulnerabilties were fixed or blocked, and we had tried pretty much anything else we could think of, someone figured out that hitting ctrl + alt while we logged in would prevent it from even loading in the first place!
Unfortunately it was pretty easy for our teacher to catch us in the silly act of banging on our keyboards at login.
And your comment reminds me of the method I used to circumvent my teachers monitoring/control software. He had his running over the LAN so all we did was bring USB wifi adapters which got us on the schools WLAN which took our computers off his software for some reason or the other.
It limits who sees it in their default stream. Anyone could still go to your page (assuming it's public) to see your tweets that start with a username, however.
I've had similar thoughts, albeit only for Google's sites. I would imagine this would be something more likely to be seen through Chrome (or even the Chromium OS).
My gut reaction is that most people wouldn't want Google on top of every other site they visit. Of course, I'm also amazed at how many toolbars I have seen people install and run concurrently in IE, so I could easily be wrong.
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