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Tim Carmichael wrote: What was your introduction to the commerical [sic] world like?
I didn't like them -- they kept interrupting my television shows. 
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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Well, obviously, I knew everything - I was young, and it took a few years to beat that out of me...
Mind you, by the time I'd had that beaten out of me, I did know pretty much everything about what we were doing, so it could be said that it didn't have a lot of effect. I must have been a complete ass-hat to work with. 
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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The fellow showing me around for my first intern job took me to the cafeteria where a lady comes up to him and say "Bob, I didn't recognize you with your cloths on!". 
Turns out the company had a canoeing outing the weekend before where they met.
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When I was on my co-op job I tended to wear a lab coat with floppy discs and serial cables and adapters in the pockets. It was very convenient.
I recall one colleague who kept calling me a geek (in a flirtatious sort of way) and I'd respond "I'm not a geek, I'm a nerd".
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Tim Carmichael wrote: What was your introduction to the commerical world like?
We have yet to be introduced. If they can survive the superbats, bottomless pits, and the Wumpus[^], they might find my cave.
Marc
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CHOMP!!!
You just got bitten by the underscore-in-link-getting-eaten-by-a-hungry-hamster bug!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
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I started my programming career writing small apps to calculate step milling increments on programmable calculators in 1977 for the guys in the drawing office I worked with - this saved them so much time and effort as well as being sure it was 100% accurate they saw me as some incredibly clever youngster who knew how to do stuff no-one else had a clue about (as a 17 year old this stroked my ego no end lol) and meant that as an apprentice engineer I could get away with murder and didn't have to take my share of crapola that a lot of other apprentices got - I don't think the term 'geek' or 'nerd' had been invented then anyway !!
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My first day on the job, I was 19, but via creative Resume Writing it would appear I was PROBABLY 21/22...
My boss hands me a stack of work to do (PDP/11s).
Login/Learn the environment, read, run some programs, get some test results.
Look at this code and make recommendations on how to fix.
I stayed late that day, my boss left before me, I was ALMOST done.
I left, putting all of the completed work on his desk, including having actually
fixed the 2 programs in question.
He came in the next morning before me (A trend I continue to this day, LOL).
When I arrived, he gave me a raise, and explained that the work was supposed
to keep me busy for the whole week!
Best First Day on the Job EVER!
(now, after that, my cockiness caused some issues, but my boss took me under
his wing, and gave me the skills I use EVERY DAY to avoid mistakes/blunders and
to manage expectations)
Kinda been downhill ever since... Where is that whiskey bottle... I hate mornings  ))))
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I just came across some one's sig and it shows the quote "The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine" from 'Winston Churchill (1944)'. But Google takes me to http://funny2.com/fakequotes.htm[^] indicating the quotation is from Abraham Lincoln.
Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right? Any comments?
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Wow, this brings recursion, and irony, to another level.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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What? You didn't know that Winston Churchill was Abraham Lincoln in drag? That bit with Ford's Theatre was just a fake to hide his real identity from his enemies.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: Anyways I believe the internet itself started as a politically recognized phenomenon only long after the periods of these people right?
I think Einstein said this first.
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It is Leslie Nielsen who said it first. Actually, he was the first to say anything.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Entropy isn't what it used to.
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I thought it was Chuck Norris
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Chuck Norris was scared of the kid who sucked his thumb in class. At high school.
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Quote: scared of the kid who sucked his thumb
Why would you want to suck Chuck Norris' thumb?
Don't you just love the vagueness of the English Language sometimes?
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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What? you believe everything you read on Wiki? You do realize that DD can edit it, don't you?
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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Vasudevan Deepak Kumar wrote: You can not step into the same river twice.
True, but once your feet are wet no-one will care which river it's from.*
* Queen Marie-Antoinette as she was led to meet the Guillotine.
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That's definitely wrong, and is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet.
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Blue Waffler wrote: is a case in point that you shouldn't believe anything you read on the internet
Perhaps it recursively provides an affirmation on the original quote too.
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The original quote WAS Winston Churchill, the bit about Lincoln is just Americans trying to claim it for themselves.
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Churchill was American, I've seen the film[^]
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Churchhill's mother was an American.
His father was the duke of Marlborough.
Winston was the second son so he did not inheret the title.
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