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I worry a lot about others thinking I'm a retard. I have practically no chance of getting a job in software development or something similar. I'm prone to bei

by NAFV_P 13y ago

I worry a lot about others thinking I'm a retard. I have practically no chance of getting a job in software development or something similar. I'm prone to being misquoted, which is probably worse than being misunderstood (I learnt I was prone to being misunderstood when I was about six). I really enjoy hideous data structures.

victorhn 13y ago
Unless you are very bad developer, like those that don't pass the fizzbuzz test, i don't see why somebody would not have chance to get a job in software development.
- NAFV_P 13y ago
  I was recently told by someone who works for an IT recruitment agency that I would find it very hard to get a job unless I already worked in software development. Employers want people with experience. I think Jeff Atwood has written about prospective employees not passing fizzbuzz. He also mentioned people who claimed to have 15 years experience in software development taking 15 minutes to make a solution. #!/usr/bin/perl #1390894695.273252 #07:38:15 28/01/2014 #fizzbuzz.pl use warnings; use strict; my $i=1; for( ; $i<=100; ++$i) { if(!($i%3)) { print "fizz"; } if(!($i%5)) { print "buzz"; } if($i%3 and $i%5) { print "$i"; } print "\n"; } I started learning perl a couple of days ago.
S4M 13y ago
Why would you think people would view you as a retard? From your example below, you can do FizzBuzz, and I am sure at least writing some basic program. There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well.
- NAFV_P 13y ago
  > Why would you think people would view you as a retard? In the past, I have been classed as dumb by many different people. The term "intelligence" is hard to define, especially these days with lumps of silicon and metal being used to predict the weather up to five days in advance and simulating nuclear detonations. Because of this it is very open to interpretation. The closest I've got to a reasonable definition is nicked off Greg Chaitin, a researcher in information theory: Furnish an intelligence with a block of data, if the intelligence can compress the data, it has achieved some understanding of it. When it comes to writing basic programs, I'm most experienced in C. Something simple can easily turn into 600 lines of drunk double dutch. > There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well. Unfortunately, I hardly ever get interviews. I have trouble getting a minimum wage job. The last interview I attended I mentioned writing a C program to determine the positive square root of two to fifteen decimal places without resorting to the standard library. As soon as I started trying to explain how it worked (just successive approximations then squaring the answer to check it), I think I blew their fuses.
  - S4M 13y ago
    That sounds very odd to me, because you write proper sentences and express yourself very clearly by writing. If that can help you, I can arrange with you a mock interview on skype and tell you if I think there is something wrong with the way you speak (please note that I am not a native English speaker and have a strong French accent). Feel free to contact me on my email on my profile.

by NAFV_P 13y ago

victorhn 13y ago

Unless you are very bad developer, like those that don't pass the fizzbuzz test, i don't see why somebody would not have chance to get a job in software development.

NAFV_P 13y ago
I was recently told by someone who works for an IT recruitment agency that I would find it very hard to get a job unless I already worked in software development. Employers want people with experience. I think Jeff Atwood has written about prospective employees not passing fizzbuzz. He also mentioned people who claimed to have 15 years experience in software development taking 15 minutes to make a solution. #!/usr/bin/perl #1390894695.273252 #07:38:15 28/01/2014 #fizzbuzz.pl use warnings; use strict; my $i=1; for( ; $i<=100; ++$i) { if(!($i%3)) { print "fizz"; } if(!($i%5)) { print "buzz"; } if($i%3 and $i%5) { print "$i"; } print "\n"; } I started learning perl a couple of days ago.

S4M 13y ago

Why would you think people would view you as a retard? From your example below, you can do FizzBuzz, and I am sure at least writing some basic program. There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well.

NAFV_P 13y ago
> Why would you think people would view you as a retard? In the past, I have been classed as dumb by many different people. The term "intelligence" is hard to define, especially these days with lumps of silicon and metal being used to predict the weather up to five days in advance and simulating nuclear detonations. Because of this it is very open to interpretation. The closest I've got to a reasonable definition is nicked off Greg Chaitin, a researcher in information theory: Furnish an intelligence with a block of data, if the intelligence can compress the data, it has achieved some understanding of it. When it comes to writing basic programs, I'm most experienced in C. Something simple can easily turn into 600 lines of drunk double dutch. > There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well. Unfortunately, I hardly ever get interviews. I have trouble getting a minimum wage job. The last interview I attended I mentioned writing a C program to determine the positive square root of two to fifteen decimal places without resorting to the standard library. As soon as I started trying to explain how it worked (just successive approximations then squaring the answer to check it), I think I blew their fuses.
- S4M 13y ago
  That sounds very odd to me, because you write proper sentences and express yourself very clearly by writing. If that can help you, I can arrange with you a mock interview on skype and tell you if I think there is something wrong with the way you speak (please note that I am not a native English speaker and have a strong French accent). Feel free to contact me on my email on my profile.