{"id":2988,"date":"2004-12-02T08:26:54","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T00:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/02\/e12cv2-hanscoms-law\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T22:26:56","slug":"e12cv2-hanscoms-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/12\/02\/e12cv2-hanscoms-law\/","title":{"rendered":"E=1\/2CV^2 (Hanscom&#8217;s Law)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9706,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=04\\\/11\\\/29\\\/171204&amp;from=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/article.pl?sid=04\\\/11\\\/29\\\/171204&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:9707,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/slashdot.org\\\/comments.pl?sid=131111&amp;cid=10950046&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>While wandering through <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/11\/29\/171204&amp;from=rss\" title=\"\/.: Top Ten Persistent Design Flaws\">\/.<\/a>, I stumbled upon <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/comments.pl?sid=131111&amp;cid=10950046\" title=\"\/.: Embedded system solved this two decades ago\">this comment<\/a>, which contained the equation <strong>E=1\/2CV\\^2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Not having a background in electrical components (the context of this equation), my brain immediately translated &#8216;CV&#8217; as &#8216;Curriculum Vitae&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Logically, it followed that &#8216;E&#8217; was something related to employment&#8230;&#8217;Employability&#8217; works.<\/p>\n<p>The end result was that I ended up reading the equation as &#8220;Employability = 1\/2(Curriculum Vitae)\\^2&#8221; &#8212; or, in layman&#8217;s terms, any given job will only require half of what you know, but will require proportionately more experience than you have.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds about right to me. I&#8217;ll call it &#8220;Hanscom&#8217;s Law&#8221;. ;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E=1\/2CV^2: any given job will only require half of what you know, but will require proportionately more experience than you have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-2988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}