3 Jun
2013
3 Jun
'13
6:26 p.m.
On 6/3/2013 7:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
One of the administrators at the college that I worked
at for 30 years
(until last week!) creates overly elaborate imagery for simple content
("curriculum committee Thursday 10:30, room 451"), then prints it out,
SCANS that, and attaches the scanned image to an email with Subject:
"FYI" and body of "See the attachment".
Fred, the folks at my university can do one better. They send email
with trivial messages in MS word format (bad), and actually attach two
copies of the doc... one in a serif font and one in a sans serif font.
I have no idea why.
When I taught beginning Data Structures And
Algorithms, I always got a
few students who rejected the idea of being efficient ("throw hardware
at it"), and specifically objected to spending an entire 3 hour class
session on how to create algorithms for sorting and searching datasets
too big to fit into memory ("just get a bigger computer and load it
all into a single array in memory!")
Funny, because when I was interviewing for some positions in some "big
data" companies (Google, Bloomberg, etc), they specifically ask about
these kinds of skills because for all the horsepower they have access
to, there's always more data.
-Matt