Re: [dev] I don't want to live on this planet anymore

From: Carlos Torres <vlaadbrain_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 13:54:20 -0400

You should think about transferring to another school that's more
challenging.
On Oct 31, 2012 1:50 PM, "Calvin Morrison" <mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com> wrote:

> An example we had to do for a quick in class activity was writing a
> program to student names (in a text files) into a list and print out their
> respective grades (in another text file). With output like this:
>
> Joe 89
> Bob 25
> Mary 100
>
> I quickly overcame the assignment with:
>
> paste names.txt grades.txt
>
> My professor responded by saying "you are doing it the wrong way".
>
> It's preposterous to not use the tools given to us by unix gods.
>
> Calvin
>
>
> On 31 October 2012 13:42, Roberto E. Vargas Caballero <k0ga_AT_shike2.com>wrote:
>
>> > My 3rd year computer science professor just said:
>> > "In order to have a good program, it must be large"
>> > *facepalm*
>>
>> This is something very common today. Teachers in the universities
>> create minds that only can do very difficult things. I has to say that in
>> my
>> case was the same, and took long time to me see that this was shit, but
>> usually people can't understand it because they don't know other thing.
>>
>>
>
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