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        <title><![CDATA[Employers need to engage more with students and schools.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Employers need to engage more with students in high schools and universities, and the schools themselves. Before this whole nanny state thing, employers would work with schools, even to the point of donating equipment, so the students would learn to enjoy the work. Now, it seems the schools and universities are left on their own to get the money from government budgets. Then the employers complain there is no one to hire and pretend a need to hire from or relocate to overseas.]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Re. Zhou in the WSJ article]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[She was an engineering student, not CS (though CS is sometimes in the Engineering college of a university). I can somewhat relate to this problem of the soda machine. During my freshman year as a CS major, I took a hardware course, and one of the problems we had to work out was how to build a machine that could add coin amounts together. We didn't have to worry about determining what kind of coins were inserted into the machine, but it had to be able to add up the amounts, and then enter an &quot;accept&quot; state if the correct amount was entered for a particular item in a vending machine. It sounds like Zhou got that far. We didn't actually build it. We went through an engineering process to draft out the circuitry to do it. I don't recall us having to have the machine compute change, however. Just quickly thinking about it, it seems like the typical case would involve reversing the process. Rather than accepting coins and accumulating an amount, you'd be spitting out coins and subtracting from an established amount (the difference between the price of the product, and the accumulated amount.) The sticky part would be the exceptional case where the machine had run out of some kinds of coins...]]></description>
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