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>I realized early on he was a strange and scary guy and that I didn't want to be like him. What about your interactions with him gave you that impression? Genu
by creep 8y ago
>I realized early on he was a strange and scary guy and that I didn't want to be like him.
What about your interactions with him gave you that impression? Genuinely curious.
- KirinDave 8y agoAt first I thought he was joking about putting me to work at NeXT then I realized he might not be. When I said I still wanted to go to college he gave me a look for just a moment like I was an idiot. He never bothered to notice me again. Not like I had a choice. Holy crap what would my dad have even done to me if I had decided not to go to college...
- scarface74 8y agoIf you had experience at NeXT on your resume before you turned 18, would you have needed to go to college? Alternatively, what's wrong with working for a couple of years to see if you really wanted to go to college for CS? If I had the chance to get a job as a programmer straight out of school, I might have chosen that and go to school part time.
- KirinDave 8y agoI deeply regret not getting a PhD or at least a masters. I'm forever stuck being a slacker without the real insights my peers with such accomplishments have. My career is all about being an operator, and as time goes on this feels more and more hollow. It's not like most folks even remember NeXT.
- scarface74 8y agoIf NeXT hadn't been bought by Apple and the operating system hadn't become the basis of OS X and then the iPhone, it would have been no more than a trivia question. But since it is running on over a billion devices, I think most tech savvy people know about it.
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