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I'm with you. I'm younger but still, the idea of sitting at WORK at 8pm eating dinner next to a billionaire and countless early employee millionaires while making them all even richer sort of turns my god damn stomach.

> However that's how things are in reality.

No, that's how things are in your reality, which is not necessarily anyone else's reality.

You've just perfectly described under-skilled, over-worked, under-paid H1b-style immigrants who get deported if they're fired. Not talented people working at the top of their game in finance, biotech, startups, etc.

When you're at the bottom of the pond everything looks like shit. You even said yourself they're fresh grads with very little experience. Dumbass.

LOL Anyone who's ever worked with a Chinese PhD's, grad students or serious developers (such as in finance) knows this is complete horseshit...

But you're right, this thread is the perfect place for some casual racism to vent your frustrations in working with third-rate developers foisted upon you by your company's outsource policies.

If I were 20 again I'd be doing the exact same shit I was doing the first time around, finishing school, drinking with my friends and trying to get laid.

I learned how to code and build UNIX systems before I went to college. So did most of the people you're going to be competing with to make any real money, so you should probably be patient, you already missed the first bus.

An aside: a lot of Korean companies have offices in LA that help with their US market activities. These aren't always publicized so always ask!

> It isn't a legal record, but people treat it that way

No they don't.

It's evidence and is treated as such, including all the proper oversight regarding chain of custody and regulatory capture/compliance. All evidence can be faked or forged, like testimony, physical evidence, or even legal "records" (what is that supposed to even mean, anyway? Did you know contracts are also evidence? And that they can be forged?)

That's why we have judges, juries and all sorts of messy legal constructs like "truth" and "perjury" and "oath".

None of this stuff is deterministic in the real world and it's a lot more complicated than some guy with a beard producing e-mails from a server in the closet.

> lie about it

Nothing in those answers is a lie or not true. It's just an answer that conveniently avoids getting insulted at a table full of people higher than you in the social hierarchy.

Maybe you just don't give a shit about walking into social boobytraps but to me learning how to speak to command respect is sort of an important part of my personal development.

> falsely

Nothing about those answers are false. It's a truthful answer designed to promote good will, not a lie. It's called having social skills.

His inability to play this game got him a stinging insult in front of a bunch of the execs' peers. Way to go dude. I'm just offering advice on how to avoid getting socially "stung", not on how to live your life in general.

> ability to learn anything yourself

I agree, I majored in economics and I'm a search engineer making over 200k. My degree is nearly worthless to me.

> asked me where I went to college

Political protip: Answer his question. "I went to X University". Because... you did, didn't you?

And if he asks you what you majored in: "I studied Y. But somehow I ended up in this job! hearty laugh".

I have a degree but it amazes me that people who didn't go to college are never able to glide past this one. It seems like the only people who really ever bring up dropping out is the dropout. Only a very special kind of asshole will continue to press you about graduation dates etc.

Having said that,... I have a sneaking suspicion that people who dropped out like bringing it up just to say that they dropped out. You like bringing it up and debating it and then having people "agree" with you eventually, because you seek validation for the decisions you made.

It's called having a chip on your shoulder and the guy who said "oh you seemed smarter than that" was clearly fucking with you cause he's seen it a million times before.

LOL, don't ask me, you're the one who were complaining about not being recognized by the NY Times for your achievements.

Your style of writing is awful. I had no idea whether you were the developer or the boss or what until the last two sentences. Try defining the variables first, not last.

And most people need an experience like that to learn to not be a doormat.