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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by michaelvoz on Wednesday August 17, 2016 @06:57PM (#12309121)
It absolutely is. We were talking about C++ pointers. 15 minutes of casual discussion at a hot tub a few months back comes to mind - and I could tell they had no idea of:

What a factory was.

What a unique_ptr did.

The dangers of unclear object ownership in a manually memory managed program.

Difference between when to pass by reference and when to pass by pointer.

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Re:Cisco to lay off about 14,000 employees by bogomipz on Thursday August 18, 2016 @09:10AM (#12312190)
Or more possibly that they simply had no interest in discussing "shop" on a weekend or outside of work hours. Or perhaps they were preoccupied with other things being that they weren't at work. Seems quite a stretch and kind of unfair to proclaim how horrible they and Cisco as a company are based on this.
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