Lost a new commercial user this week :(

[Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d]

> i'm not talking about "excellent" programmes, i'm talking about 
> basic
> CS knowledge. "why crc32 is bad hashing function?" "how to 
> negate
> machine integer without using unary minus operator?" "what is 
> closure,
> what is continuation and how they differ?" and so on. those are 
> basic
> questions, yet i was forced to add those to my interviews.

I sincerely have no idea why you consider this to be basic 
knowledge. If we're talking C programmers, the vast majority 
won't know what a closure or a continuation is. Maybe the working 
environments you've been exposed to are drastically different 
from the ones I have. I've been interviewing a ton of candidates 
at work recently, and in my experience your expectations are way 
off.

People like us that even bother to learn D or be in this forum 
are not average programmers. I don't mean that in an elitist 
sense, I mean we're weird and expecting the rest of the world to 
be like us is, IMHO, silly.

I stay up at night watching programming conference videos. Nobody 
else where I work does. Oh, and this is coming from me, a person 
who was recently told had too high expectations of what basic C++ 
knowledge should be only weeks ago.

Atila