Let Go, Standard Library From Community

[Clay Smith]

Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Stephen Waits wrote:
>>> Basically, seems like the students aren't learning much about the 
>>> machine any more.  Were they ever?  Or were us "old-timers" (I'm 35, 
>>> not quite an old timer, but whatever) just so excited about the whole 
>>> thing that we all spent way too much time learning stuff on our own?  
>>> (I also quit college so I could learn more)
>>
>> A guy in my dorm in college built a CPU board out of random logic 
>> (NAND, NOR gates) just for fun. Those are the kind of guys you want to 
>> hire!
>>
>> I think it was Niven who wrote that a real scientist was one who'd 
>> fearlessly peer through the gates of hell if he thought he could learn 
>> something.
>>
>> 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
> 
> Ironically, a friend of mine just recently acquired some liquid nitrogen 
> and we've been chattering away at work planning all the things we intend 
> to do with it.  Time to add beersicles to the list.. made from home 
> brewed beer no less.  ;)  Bananas and marshmellows do fun things too... 
> especially if loaded into certain old nerf guns, but I digress.
> 
> -- Chris Nicholson-Sauls -- who still dreams of cubicle nerf wars gone awry

I heard that ice cream created with liquid nitrogen tastes very good and 
it is very quick to make as well.