Articles and blog posts like this disappoint and annoy me. They lack logic and intellectual depth.
I sincerely hope young Americans/westerners don't get discouraged by reading such nonsense.
The problem described here is a combination of naivety and misallocation of skills and resources. It has nothing to do with being white and yet this lady can't seem to get away from that.
I'm South Asian and I would have faced the exact same problems this lady faced had I volunteered in the places and organizations she did. However being older and perhaps wiser, I wouldn't have made the error of volunteering to do things I have no skill in.
Thats the only mistake she made and the problems she mentioned are easily fixed with a little common sense. Yet somehow she can't see that
I wonder where this silliness comes from - could it be the result of the modern American education system ?
Before closing I should mention I would likely never have been born had it not been for a bunch of young European women who saved my orphaned grandmother from certain starvation and neglect when she was a toddler.
They gave her a home, an excellent education and looked afer her till she was a young woman. Their actions helped my grandmother get the skills she later used to pull her family out of poverty (resulting from the Partition of India) into the upper middle class.
Thank heavens for those dedicated, young, white voluntourists.
I went to school in India and while there was some mild bullying now and again it was nowhere near as bad as this. I find it surprising how big a problem it is here in the US especially at the junior and high school level.
In India the problem is with hazing (called "ragging") at the college level.
Why do teachers stand by and let bullying continue unabated ?
The Arduinos are great. I have two of them. One is a DIY clone called "DorkBoard". Check it out.
Also have a look at the MSP430 based LaunchPad kit, its very cheap and available from Mouser.com.
Several of our company laptops have been migrated to SSDs and for the most part, people have been pleased with the switch. Also, some file-servers in our datacenter are using SSDs + Disk in a hybrid setup.
The main thing to know is that if you've not dome much regular programming before, it will be fairly hard. Do not give up, it gets easier with practice. Keep at it. Look at some recent open source projects and go through the code. Set yourself some programming tasks and complete them. Do this regularly.
All the best.
I think you're worrying too much. Sounds pretty normal to me. Try to keep learning, practice coding problems if you're so inclined or get a hobby. Get out more. Spend more time with your family. Teach a few courses if thats possible.
In this context, I don't think there is any such thing as linear improvement.
They had a booth at the Bay Area MakerFaire 2010. I played with it and bought me a small sample (expensive). IMO its pretty useful. Think of it as sticky putty that turns into a hardish rubber in a few hours. Doesn't melt or come apart easily.
Noted and corrected. Funny I made that mistake since I've lived close by in Dubai for a while and have relatives living and working in both Bahrain and Qatar.
Are you comparing the Qatari legal/punitive system against the US system ? If so, you're either being incredibly naive, incredibly stupid, or just trolling. Anyone with half a brain would rather be arrested for a (percieved) crime in the US rather than a country such as Qatar. Read the orginal article carefully and see the kind of limbo that Proctor is in. One could argue that the link you posted is not even on topic.
Yes, they have but there are some conditions that have to be met before tehe 2.5 years apply.
How do I find startups ? Most job search engines don't classify companies as such.
I sincerely hope young Americans/westerners don't get discouraged by reading such nonsense.
The problem described here is a combination of naivety and misallocation of skills and resources. It has nothing to do with being white and yet this lady can't seem to get away from that.
I'm South Asian and I would have faced the exact same problems this lady faced had I volunteered in the places and organizations she did. However being older and perhaps wiser, I wouldn't have made the error of volunteering to do things I have no skill in. Thats the only mistake she made and the problems she mentioned are easily fixed with a little common sense. Yet somehow she can't see that
I wonder where this silliness comes from - could it be the result of the modern American education system ?
Before closing I should mention I would likely never have been born had it not been for a bunch of young European women who saved my orphaned grandmother from certain starvation and neglect when she was a toddler. They gave her a home, an excellent education and looked afer her till she was a young woman. Their actions helped my grandmother get the skills she later used to pull her family out of poverty (resulting from the Partition of India) into the upper middle class.
Thank heavens for those dedicated, young, white voluntourists.