Comment Re:They always told me I was so smart... (Score 1) 243
On the contrary, it should hurt your social skills significantly. In real life you can't have the luxury of not interacting with normal people.
On the contrary, it should hurt your social skills significantly. In real life you can't have the luxury of not interacting with normal people.
It's extremely easy to find work in the engineering fields even if you have shitty grades.
It appears you just suck at applying for jobs and selling yourself.
With Linkedin today it's even easier. I get contacted by headhunters for high-paid jobs on a daily basis.
I've figured I was smart when I was sent to a special school that only accepted people with high IQ.
It was arguably the worse year of my life.
If you're ever offered to do this for your kid, think twice.
It doesn't have a CBE.
Where do you think UK electricity comes from? They import it from France, and don't bother converting it.
Kickstarter is a sham. You're supposed to get equity when funding. "Backing" is just giving free money to strangers.
Have you ever tried to work with business-class Word documents using LibreOffice?
It just doesn't work well enough.
As evidently demonstrated by this summary.
(it has also been my experience, as an engineer turned entrepreneur and now CEO)
Brendan Eich has a CEO could have fixed this.
Remember what happened to him?
I also told you about other costs than the pay.
It usually costs two times the pay to the employer.
52/235 = 221
Just saying...
And there are other costs associated to a salary than the pay, benefit costs and structuring costs.
For salary of 52k, 500 is the cost of two days at most.
I think you're a minority.
Most people live fairly close to cities.
We don't have flying cars because they wouldn't be practical outside of long travels, and for long travels traditional airplanes are more economical and the ability to not be dependent on a third party service matters less.
My understanding is that pepper as a public API is being discontinued, NaCl (which relies on pepper in its implementation), will be the the next public API.
NaCl is the next version of Pepper.
If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. -- G.K. Chesterton