And if you're looking to accomplish great things worthy of an opera by yourself and/or for yourself, do not get into computer science and programming unless you have an I.Q. of 180 or plan on doing nothing else for the rest of your life.

Anyone who says programming is easy or CS is easy isn't talking about the same programming or computer science I am, obviously. They must just watch television and see that fifteen-year-olds evidently hack into NASA and .gov websites.

No one anywhere can realistically think it fun to spend 10 years learning about programming to contribute a couple files of source code to a web browser. Fifteen-year-olds don't hack NASA computers.

What the reality is behind what people act like it is is obviously beyond my feeble mind's comprehension.

I wouldn't say it's self-pity, I would say I'm pointing out a lot of realistic things about reality which no one anywhere on the internet seems capable of doing. If you went to college for even eight years and now program geosynchronous spacecraft kernels, you're in the Twilight Zone or you have an I.Q. of 180. If you have been grinding on programming practically your whole life and are now capable of such things, it wasn't college, so no one has a reason to act like getting a degree has anything to do with what they do for a living, and if it does they couldn't do it in four years without being on a meth binge the entire time. Or it's ordinary and not extraordinary.

It is ironic you complains about how nasty they are when you aim for low level stuff which is obviously nasty and difficult. There are many simpler higher level languagse where you can do pretty GUI and games, but, you choose not to try them.magicalclick

It exists because space is cold.

FACT: Scientists advance the human race while artists amuse it.kingfire11

Russians aren't gay.

Don't Muslim women receive death threats for everything?

I think he's suave. 8)