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If you haven't made five mistakes before noon, you aren't really trying (or learning). I'm 57 and you just have to do stuff, at great speed, and err too. OK, so

If you haven't made five mistakes before noon, you aren't really trying (or learning). I'm 57 and you just have to do stuff, at great speed, and err too. OK, so I'm also gone through about 4 career changes... and been a big advocate for inventing. Long story short. You won't invent anything if you are afraid of laughing and being laughed at. Oh, and I'm a named inventor on a dozen patents and patent applications. How do you think Edison got through it, if he was worried about stuff not working? Also, I've been fired a few times. Sometimes those were the best times. I shit you not.

Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago
> Also, I've been fired a few times. Sometimes those were the best times. I shit you not. Would you humor us with any anecdotes on one of those firings?
- mcv 4y ago
  Not OP, but I was fired from my first job. My boss was the son of the owner and his previous job was mailman, but he'd done some programming in his youth, so he could lead the IT division. I came in fresh from university, and I loved to automate my work. Why do it by hand if you can write a script or a program to do it for you? At some point, I worked at a project where we would get a detailed functional design from the customer, and this FD was sacred. It contained detailed rules about what should happen in which circumstances, and I wrote some Word macros to distill those rules from the document and turn them into my code. We had a super slow build system that involved a .h file that created tens of thousands of const uints that would be included in every single file. I wrote a macro that turned them all into #defines, which sped up the build by a factor 4. But whenever the boss would look into my room, he's see me leaning back, watching all my scripts and macros run. He hated that. At some point I got sick for a month (B12 anemia), and on my first day back, he fired me.
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Simon_O_Rourke 4y ago

> Also, I've been fired a few times. Sometimes those were the best times. I shit you not. Would you humor us with any anecdotes on one of those firings?

mcv 4y ago
Not OP, but I was fired from my first job. My boss was the son of the owner and his previous job was mailman, but he'd done some programming in his youth, so he could lead the IT division. I came in fresh from university, and I loved to automate my work. Why do it by hand if you can write a script or a program to do it for you? At some point, I worked at a project where we would get a detailed functional design from the customer, and this FD was sacred. It contained detailed rules about what should happen in which circumstances, and I wrote some Word macros to distill those rules from the document and turn them into my code. We had a super slow build system that involved a .h file that created tens of thousands of const uints that would be included in every single file. I wrote a macro that turned them all into #defines, which sped up the build by a factor 4. But whenever the boss would look into my room, he's see me leaning back, watching all my scripts and macros run. He hated that. At some point I got sick for a month (B12 anemia), and on my first day back, he fired me.

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