Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/04/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bill, Well I am not an Engineering Graduate, though I am a Math/Statistics graduate. I have been hiring people in campus interviews, lateral recruits, freshers etc. since 1987, first for Citibank India and then for my own company, all direct recruits into the management cadre. I think I have enough experience to know what I am talking about - in fact in both cases, for freshers, we were only worried about above average intelligence - the banking/finance know how could easily be taught in a few months. I have nothing against Liberal Arts majors, only the ones who opt for that stream are those, in my experience, under Indian conditions, who could not get admission in professional/commerce/science degree courses. Secondly, a lack of math knowledge is a severe handicap in most manufacturing/services management trainee type of jobs. YMMV. Cheers Jayanand On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Bill Pearce <billcpearce at cox.net> wrote: > You may not know this, and most employers certainly don't, but Liberal > Arts and Fine Arts majors make the best employees. They learn fast, and are > not filled with useless ideas about how to get things done, and more easily > adapt to change. > > -----Original Message----- From: Jim Gmail > Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 10:13 PM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Sony Sucks, big time > > I was a liberal arts major (Econ) and have designed products and services > that you very likely have used. Back in the 90s when I was at MSFT, there > were loads of music majors writing code and even art history majors running > product groups. The group program manager for the native apps on the > original iphone was an English major. Many tech startup founders have > liberal arts backgrounds. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 13, 2014, at 22:35, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> Jim, But Liberal Arts majors are incapable of designing TVs or >> manufacturing them in the first place! (-: So what is your point? >> Cheers >> Jayanand >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 7:58 AM, Jim Gmail <jplaurel at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> That's what happens when the liberal arts are discarded in favor of more >>> "practical" majors. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 20:19, Herbert Kanner <kanner at acm.org> wrote: >>>> >>>> Nathan, >>>> >>>> You may just have been a victim of the fact that most engineers cannot >>>> >>> write, whether it's in English or Japanese. >>> >>>> >>>> Here's how I achieved fame in my department at Apple. A couple of guys >>>> >>> "invented" a piece of software that gets independently invented at just >>> about every company that writes software. The system controlled editing >>> so >>> that two or more people couldn't simultaneously make changes and step on >>> each other's work. So, if one person "checks the software out" for >>> editing, >>> all others can get it on a read-only basis until the first person checks >>> it >>> back in. >>> >>>> >>>> I had to use this simple thing, and the write-up by it's authors was so >>>> >>> damn unintelligible that I had to figure out how to work it by trial and >>> error. After then using it, I just decided, on my own to write a manual. >>> My >>> boss was so impressed that I got an imaginative reward: three bottles of >>> wine a month for a year. >>> >>>> >>>> Subsequently, I was picked to edit our release notes, which ultimately >>>> >>> grew to about 350 pages. I had a great experience editing the writings of >>> people, with a few exceptions, couldn't write. >>> >>>> >>>> Herbert Kanner >>>> kanner at acm.org >>>> 650-326-8204 >>>> >>>> Question authority and the authorities will question you. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Apr 13, 2014, at 1:44 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> >>>>> >>>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>> I have never owned a Sony camera, and now I know for sure that I never >>>>> >>>> will. >>> >>>> >>>>> We just bought a 65-inch Sony Bravia TV, one of the latest models, not >>>>> >>>> cheap to put it mildly. Great picture, but we have struggling for 2 days >>> with the simple task (or should be simple) to connect a garden variety >>> laptop to the TV using its wifi interface so that the TV in effect acts >>> as >>> a computer monitor, but without the clutter of HDMI cables and all that. >>> The menus and instructions for Sony products were apparently originally >>> written in Klingon, then translated into Japanese and then to English. >>> And >>> it appears that unless your computer is a Sony Vaio, you have to perform >>> various unnatural acts. Everything Sony seems to be proprietary. >>> >>>> >>>>> I think the TV is going back to the store (fortunately, we bought >>>>> >>>> locally), to be replace by a Samsung or LG. >>> >>>> >>>>> Cheers, >>>>> Nathan >>>>> >>>>> Nathan Wajsman >>>>> Alicante, Spain >>>>> http://www.frozenlight.eu >>>>> http://www.greatpix.eu >>>>> PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws >>>>> Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ >>>>> >>>>> YNWA >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Leica Users Group. >>>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Leica Users Group. >>>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >