Your boss isn't a psychopath, he's just an asshole. I'm kinda the same way as you may be, in that I always show up to places exactly on time or 5 minutes late; can't be bothered to be early, for some odd reason, which later in life I found out is because I have a deep seating revulsion to wasting time, as well as a strong need to be independent. It always mystified me why stupid ass bosses would go SO FUCKING UPTIGHT AND MAD about somebody being a few minutes late, when that person is the most valuable member of your time who (as you said) stays late and fixes problems. Some people are just way, way too married to routine and schedules. Fuck that shit. Self employment is the only possibility for me. Maybe you are the same way.
Like the GP I'm also a genius (IQ 130+) and I had the exact same experience growing up in school. I never took notes and I never did homework, in school and in the university classes I took. I can skip half the class and still ace every test. I remember every school year being the exact same goddamn thing; 4th grade math? 5th grade math? 6th grade math? All teaching the same shit, over and over and over and over. Of course through all this we never made it even halfway through any of our textbooks, let alone finished one; how can you finish a textbook when you have to read and learn from it at the rate of the slowest and dumbest person in a 30 person class?
I know exactly where he's coming from. In 6th grade I was reading multiple novels a week and had a college reading level. I know exactly what it's like to sit in a classroom while the class slowly, haltingly stumbles, one student at a time down each row, through reading one paragraph at a time from the textbook aloud to the class. I'm lost in the book, reading 7-8 chapters ahead as usual, so of course when the teacher gets to me and I "don't know my place", I get in trouble. So then I had to learn the skill of covertly reading ahead but still keeping track of the classroom's progress so I didn't get in trouble.
Obviously you don't have the first fucking clue about anything, so why you bothered commenting here is a mystery to me. If you just wanted to stroke your ego by poo-poo'ing on the GP's claim of genius, then you should have at least attached your name to the comment so we could all know who you are and how smart and brilliant you must have been to make that observation!
Well, I did just the amount of homework required to have a passing grade, and compensated it on the exams. (That's for the homework that counted toward my grades, the rest I just ignored and took the respective warnings.)
I didn't do any of it.
But then, I was wrong in doing that.
No you weren't.
Every great thing you may want to do requires huge amounts of mindblowing boring work, and doing boring work is moething that we learn, it's not inate. I could have learned it by the time I was at school, but passed the chance.
"Doing necessary boring work" is not a skill that homework teaches you. If anything it just wastes your time you could have spent doing something more productive. If you can ace the test and understand the subject without doing any homework, then homework is a waste of time. I fail how to see completing some mind numbing work forced on you by a third party makes you a more driven or better person. If anything you are only training yourself to obey orders. How are you going to prosper in a business of your own, making your own decisions, if all you know how to do is meekly cow to authority and wait for orders from the boss?
This is modern life for the most part. Even in college you have to play the game. For most jobs you have to play the game. In the military you have to play the game. For many social situations you have to play the game. That is part of life.
No, that's your life. Stop projecting. I am self employed and I do what I want. I hope you're content with your fucked up authoritarian "educational" system and your life of corporate slavery.
I've heard numerous variations of this by parents trying to justify why their precious snowflake doesn't do well in school. Usually it is the teacher's fault
The FBI sent a squad of cops to my house the other day to search for a "stolen iphone", after I sent them an email telling them they were pieces of shit and to leave a 16 year old kid alone whom they visited over a Ron Paul video, and daring them to "send more thugs here to harass me." 10 days later....more thugs showed up to harass me.
You think America isn't just as fascist as China? You're naive.
It's only highly unlikely if you're a moron, or totally ignorant. Every fucking thing in the U.S. today is made in China. How many backdoors do you want to bet are installed in every aspect of our country? It's your blind ignorance that will end up getting us all killed.
While I don't know the details of this, I don't think you can claim that computer "engineering" is complete and utter shit because it's possible to do bad things that will kill people.
When was the last bug-free program you ever used?
The vast majority of cars have wheel nuts that are accessible and use a standard spanner to remove. This is a real threat - cars with expensive wheels now typically use locking wheel nuts - but what you don't (often) get is people removing wheel nuts or letting down tyres "because it's fun and I'm 'leet' "
What if cars randomly broke down on the side of the road and crashed for no apparent reason...and everyone sighed and just accepted it as normal, or inevitable? Would you then consider automotive engineering to be a flawed discipline?
LMAO at a thread full of armchair psychologists trying to figure out what medicine to prescribe to fix "OMG SOMEHOW NOT NORMAL!!1" What a bunch of morons. Look in the mirror: you're what's wrong with America.
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You have exactly what it takes to succeed. If you don't have a direction yet, keep looking, and trying new things; you'll find it.
Grammar fail. Slashdot can you add an edit button already? Jesus
Your boss isn't a psychopath, he's just an asshole. I'm kinda the same way as you may be, in that I always show up to places exactly on time or 5 minutes late; can't be bothered to be early, for some odd reason, which later in life I found out is because I have a deep seating revulsion to wasting time, as well as a strong need to be independent. It always mystified me why stupid ass bosses would go SO FUCKING UPTIGHT AND MAD about somebody being a few minutes late, when that person is the most valuable member of your time who (as you said) stays late and fixes problems. Some people are just way, way too married to routine and schedules. Fuck that shit. Self employment is the only possibility for me. Maybe you are the same way.
In the flesh
You're a fucking moron.
Like the GP I'm also a genius (IQ 130+) and I had the exact same experience growing up in school. I never took notes and I never did homework, in school and in the university classes I took. I can skip half the class and still ace every test. I remember every school year being the exact same goddamn thing; 4th grade math? 5th grade math? 6th grade math? All teaching the same shit, over and over and over and over. Of course through all this we never made it even halfway through any of our textbooks, let alone finished one; how can you finish a textbook when you have to read and learn from it at the rate of the slowest and dumbest person in a 30 person class?
I know exactly where he's coming from. In 6th grade I was reading multiple novels a week and had a college reading level. I know exactly what it's like to sit in a classroom while the class slowly, haltingly stumbles, one student at a time down each row, through reading one paragraph at a time from the textbook aloud to the class. I'm lost in the book, reading 7-8 chapters ahead as usual, so of course when the teacher gets to me and I "don't know my place", I get in trouble. So then I had to learn the skill of covertly reading ahead but still keeping track of the classroom's progress so I didn't get in trouble.
Obviously you don't have the first fucking clue about anything, so why you bothered commenting here is a mystery to me. If you just wanted to stroke your ego by poo-poo'ing on the GP's claim of genius, then you should have at least attached your name to the comment so we could all know who you are and how smart and brilliant you must have been to make that observation!
Well, I did just the amount of homework required to have a passing grade, and compensated it on the exams. (That's for the homework that counted toward my grades, the rest I just ignored and took the respective warnings.)
I didn't do any of it.
But then, I was wrong in doing that.
No you weren't.
Every great thing you may want to do requires huge amounts of mindblowing boring work, and doing boring work is moething that we learn, it's not inate. I could have learned it by the time I was at school, but passed the chance.
"Doing necessary boring work" is not a skill that homework teaches you. If anything it just wastes your time you could have spent doing something more productive. If you can ace the test and understand the subject without doing any homework, then homework is a waste of time. I fail how to see completing some mind numbing work forced on you by a third party makes you a more driven or better person. If anything you are only training yourself to obey orders. How are you going to prosper in a business of your own, making your own decisions, if all you know how to do is meekly cow to authority and wait for orders from the boss?
This is modern life for the most part. Even in college you have to play the game. For most jobs you have to play the game. In the military you have to play the game. For many social situations you have to play the game. That is part of life.
No, that's your life. Stop projecting. I am self employed and I do what I want. I hope you're content with your fucked up authoritarian "educational" system and your life of corporate slavery.
I've heard numerous variations of this by parents trying to justify why their precious snowflake doesn't do well in school. Usually it is the teacher's fault
Agreed.
Usualy, geniuses are the forgotten ones who die penniless.
Seems your definition of "genius" varies from mine.
And of course I'm called a troll for speaking the truth. Slashdot: no intellectual input to offer? Just moderate instead.
The FBI sent a squad of cops to my house the other day to search for a "stolen iphone", after I sent them an email telling them they were pieces of shit and to leave a 16 year old kid alone whom they visited over a Ron Paul video, and daring them to "send more thugs here to harass me." 10 days later....more thugs showed up to harass me.
You think America isn't just as fascist as China? You're naive.
He cannot pull it off. It is simply not possible to create an exploit-proof OS.
Bet you a $100 billion dollars you're wrong.
No, he was referring to a sect of hackers who wear bright red lipstick while performing DoS attacks against calculators.
Can I help you sir? You seem to be lost.
But feel free to take the courses. I'm sure it will all work out.
I agree. It will work out just fine, since I will never purposely have anything to do with Minnesota.
You seem a bit naive.
Minnesota is one of the most corrupt states in the Union, that's how. Nazi Germany would be proud of how fascist this state is.
It's basically like, take that guy, multiply times a few million = the scale of the problem we face in bringing sanity to software development.
Exactly. Meaning the problem is: bug-prone languages.
No, probably not, because somebody else likely owns the mineral rights to your land.
Paypal is doing nothing more than protecting themselves against greedy and stupid people and nothing else.
Fuck you
It's only highly unlikely if you're a moron, or totally ignorant. Every fucking thing in the U.S. today is made in China. How many backdoors do you want to bet are installed in every aspect of our country? It's your blind ignorance that will end up getting us all killed.
While I don't know the details of this, I don't think you can claim that computer "engineering" is complete and utter shit because it's possible to do bad things that will kill people.
When was the last bug-free program you ever used?
The vast majority of cars have wheel nuts that are accessible and use a standard spanner to remove. This is a real threat - cars with expensive wheels now typically use locking wheel nuts - but what you don't (often) get is people removing wheel nuts or letting down tyres "because it's fun and I'm 'leet' "
What if cars randomly broke down on the side of the road and crashed for no apparent reason...and everyone sighed and just accepted it as normal, or inevitable? Would you then consider automotive engineering to be a flawed discipline?
LMAO at a thread full of armchair psychologists trying to figure out what medicine to prescribe to fix "OMG SOMEHOW NOT NORMAL!!1" What a bunch of morons. Look in the mirror: you're what's wrong with America.
If Anonymous has material evidence that points to the guilt of a particular individual, they should turn that evidence over to the responsible law enforcement agency
Where would they find one of those?