Re: not enough real programmers?

[lucvdv@null.net (Luc Van der Veken)]

bmeyer@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au posted:

> You could always quote Einstein back at them.... Allegedly, the great man
> was once asked what the speed of sound in air was, and answered along
> the lines of "I don't memorize stuff I can look up in any encyclopedia".
> Or something to that effect --- the only time I ever saw this quote it
> was in a German issue of "Reader's Digest", and there was no telling 
> how many times it had been bounced back and forth between German and English.

When applying for a job involving radiation protection once, I
answered a question about what thickness of concrete you would
need around a neutron source with something like "that depends on
how much barite you mix in it, and I don't remember the exact
figures but that's what books are for".

I didn't get the job (even though I thought I had answered
correctly).