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Re: Study: why bother to remember when you can just use Google? |
Jul 15, 2011, 09:30 |
Alamar |
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Sepharo wrote on Jul 15, 2011, 00:41:
The memory aspect of it seems to be especially bad with code. 5 years of school and 3 years of work and I still routinely refer to documentation/articles and especially surrounding code for stuff I should know as well as I do the alphabet.
Embarrassingly I'd probably be pretty lost with no internet access and a clean harddrive.
only one, it's Libya
As you age, this only gets worse... Things to look forward to... dot com...
Somewhat related... I had a job interview ~7 years ago, where a portion was to make a class that used STL extensively... Well... I had 'dabbled' with STL in the past, but nowhere enough for this... And the coding test machine had no internet (which is good), but it did have a full MSDN library, which is why I was hired : )
In short, this is nothing new... People were saying the same thing 30 years ago about calculators (and other examples I won't bring up)... 'oh, we got lerned (sic) our 'times tables' in school, we didn't need to rely on technology'... 'Ya? What's 23.6 to the power of 4... How's them times tables stacking up biatch'... <- paraphrased for your amusement : )
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