Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Stephen Waits]

Walter Bright wrote:
> It isn't hard to tell the real engineers from the "just a job" folks in 
> a job interview. The real engineers:
> 
> 1) did weird projects in their spare time, just for fun, not for credit
> 2) regard getting a degree as incidental, and wind up leaving it 
> forgotten in the bottom of a drawer
> 3) took the hard classes that weren't required
> 4) didn't duck the calculus classes
> 5) can enthusiastically describe their projects
> 6) can tell you how bright an LED can glow if you file down the housing 
> a bit and stick it in liquid nitrogen
> 
> The charlatans:
> 
> 1) did nothing that wasn't required
> 2) generally complain that their hard work goes unrecognized
> 3) are much more interested in the salary & benefits rather than what 
> the work is
> 4) have difficulty describing just what their last project was and what 
> their contribution to it was
> 5) complain about outsourcing or foreigners taking their jobs
> 6) never made beersicles from pouring beer into liquid nitrogen

Nicely said.

This is basically what we go by too; except, maybe for the liquid 
nitrogen parts.  Sounds like somebody had some fun back in the day...  :)

--Steve