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Hi, I'm James Briggs, an Internet computer programmer/DBA in Silicon Valley. I've been programming for 20 years for companies like eBay, Cisco, Yahoo!, Apple, Amazon and startups.In my spare time I do Open Source programming and like flying airplanes, karate and studying Asian languages.
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Daily Archives: September 20, 2010
The “I Don’t Test Well” Student Excuse
A high school student in a TV interview today said, “I’m intelligent, but I don’t test well.” That’s alarming, since when I was a student in the 80′s, I never heard that excuse. Apparently it is a common rationalization that … Continue reading
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