Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!news.musoftware.de!wum.musoftware.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Robert Klemme Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Top 10 Java Serialization Interview Question Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:45:07 +0200 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <91m4qmFtpbU1@mid.individual.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Hpi+P0gK6XKBfSguc3O+gAEsmeFzz8dAKveG9+pIU6KjD6x3E= Cancel-Lock: sha1:X8aD4eHiAJ1EmcWv4UrA55TcqY4= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 110425-1, 25.04.2011), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:3249 On 25.04.2011 10:15, Tom Anderson wrote: > The worst bit is that there are thousands and thousands more just the > same lined up behind him. Mostly worse, in fact. This is why for many > questions, google is no longer our friend - because all it does is offer > us the output of these guys. Even worse: Google and the like are at least in part responsible for this development. Today many people seem to believe that knowledge and their own reasoning are less needed or even obsolete because of search engines. I know school teachers who, on a regular basis, report that their pupils deliver a printout of some obscure web site for a homework assignment and are even surprised that their teachers immediately spot the fake (easy if you have but the slightest feeling for language). Cheers robert -- remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/