"Employee: We’re going to reduce our CPU usage on our servers by 80%, so practically, users will just see this as a faster site. Pages will load in one fifth of the time that they used to."

With gems like that, one can't help but deduce that, if anonymous employee IS a Stanford grad, Stanford is the best CS department in the world. I mean, they seem to have invented the zero-latency, infinite bandwidth internet, where all network operations are CPU bound!

The average Stanford Kid is about the same as the average MIT kid is about the same as the average CMU kid. The most brilliant Ohio State kid is likely about as smart as the most brilliant MIT kid.

[Edited to be less snarky :)]

I'd agree with that completely.

My roommate recently interviewed with Facebook(we attend a state school in the midwest). The other candidates were going around saying where they were from, many were from Stanford, and when it came to him they basically snubbed him afterwards.

That said in programming competitions we've beaten schools like UIUC.

If a graduate at all. Consider:

"PHP is an example of a scripted language. The computer or browser reads the program like a script,..."

Hard to remember the last time my browser was reading a server-side script. ( or was it just "all those beers" they were drinking? )

Their statement is logically correct..

After all, the server is a computer, so you can replace 'computer' with server. Which makes the first evaluation true, and the word 'browser' is never evaluated, or at least irrelevant. You could even say that either the server or my pet ferret reads the program like a script...

But seriously... the guy/girl was talking generically about scripting, not specific to server-side web scripts. So the statement is accurate.

Also consider that the speaker was talking to a computer layperson. Depending on what "level" you are speaking at, it may behoove you to simplify things and remove terminology like "server" or "client" from what you're saying. She may just have been toning things down a little.

That was my precise first thought. But he's really talking of a scripting language in general: think Javascript (browser)or Perl (computer).

Since the discussion before this line was about PHP, I think it tends to trip you up.