What they said:
\n\tWhat they meant:<\/p>\n
“I recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever.”
\n\t(Yes, that about sums it up.)
\n“The amount of mathematics she knows will surprise you.”
\n\t(And I recommend not giving that school a dime…)
\n“I simply can’t say enough good things about him.”
\n\t(What a screw-up.)
\n“I am pleased to say that this candidate is a former colleague of mine.”
\n\t(I can’t tell you how happy I am that she left our firm.)
\n“When this person left our employ, we were quite hopeful he would go
\na long way with his skills.”
\n\t(We hoped he’d go as far as possible.)
\n“You won’t find many people like her.”
\n\t(In fact, most people can’t stand being around her.)
\n“I cannot recommend him too highly.”
\n\t(However, to the best of my knowledge, he has never committed a
\n\t felony in my presence.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Many companies that have made themselves dependent on [the equipment of a certain major manufacturer] (and in doing so have sold their soul to the devil) will collapse under the sheer weight of the unmastered complexity of their data processing systems. — Edsger W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 17, Number 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":196,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/48"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stuff.z3ngin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}