On Tue 19 Oct 2021 at 06:41:14 (-0700), Peter Ehlert wrote: > On 10/19/21 6:08 AM, Dan Ritter wrote: > > piorunz wrote: > > > On 19/10/2021 13:10, lou wrote: > > > > On 19/10/2021 12:11, courtneyxshort wrote: > > > > > > > I am a Computer Science Masters student and part of my degree > > > > > > > involves > > > > > > > me downloading Debian on my Mac. I have tried this countless times > > > > > > > and I > > > > > > > have been unsuccessful. I've watched Youtube videos/ read the > > > > > > > information on your website and I am still unable to do this. > > > > > > > Is this something you could please help me with? I would be so > > > > > > > grateful. > > > > > > > Courtney > > > > Computer Science Masters student don't know how to download (use) debian > > > > on Mac?? > > > > it's quite unbelievable. > > > > > > > Yep, sounds fishy. > > It's getting towards off-topic, but I can confirm that just > > because a person is working on a CS master's degree, that > > doesn't mean they have any degree of competence. > > > > There is a major university here in the Boston area where the CS > > undergrads are consistently better than the graduate students. > > My company gets many of both interviewing for temporary positions. > > The undergrads tend to be clever, curious, and ready to learn; > > the grad students are frequently (not always) prone to making up > > fantasy answers rather than admitting that they don't know > > something.
That can be caused by selection bias: you're offering something attractive to the brighter students at undergraduate level; by the time those brighter students have graduated, they may already be networking with a wider geographical range of institutions offering something more permanent. > that is an interesting observation, similar to mine interviewing for > civil engineering and land surveying positions > > I suspect "courtneyxshort" is not in a local[e] that is native English > speaking That seems unlikely, seeing as they post in British Summer Time through an IP address owned by BSKYB-BROADBAND (Sky UK Limited) that geolocates around Northolt/Uxbridge, near the east end of the so-called Silicon Corridor. Cheers, David.
