@ericbidopa Well, you should have done that already. I don't have any of those contacts anymore because it has been a decade(maybe more).
Anyway, I wish you good luck and I hope you succeed.
In five years, we will all see if it was a smart decision that I rejected scholarship offers and dropped out of school to work on https://t.co/lqicOYSP4G. I am pretty much the ultimate ruler of my generation.
@ericbidopa It's a bold move. You need the right people(good and experience friends, mentors) around. You need to see other perspectives as well.
You are not the first to explore educational space. Have you consult people who tried and failed ?(you may learn something)
@ericbidopa Hey man, hope the shit was a good one 😂
On point 8. - my first job after PHD at Oracle was a well-paid waste of time I had to do to take care of my Moms. I was definitely doing stuff in after hours to compensate to lack of growth
On 9 - glad we can agree. Ghana will waste u 2
I was there(deliberately avoided the picture)🤣, while I agree with your motivation, your statement is not entirely true.
Proof: Andrew(Silentwork)'s wife gave a talk on that day.
This is the @DevCongress meetup photo from 2017.
There isn't a single person in this photo, who has not travelled the world to build software.
Every single person in this photo is successful.
If you like give up and see.
See you all tmrw.
#DevCongressMayMeetup
Whatever you want to learn:
1. Find a book
2. Read it properly without taking notes.
3. Read it again and this time take notes.
4. Find someone and start explaining to them.
5. Realize the difference in knowledge if you were just asking an LLM to give you the information.
@osasinrobotics Got your point perfectly. My issue was with ubuntu.
The screen attached to the rpi doesn't always work out of box. You need to set it up with a different screen(a monitor) first.
University cybersecurity degrees are producing graduates who understand academic security theory but cannot configure a firewall.
The curriculum is designed by academics.
The industry is run by practitioners.
Those are two fundamentally different groups with two fundamentally different definitions of what matters.
Until universities close that gap, a self-taught candidate with a home lab and real certifications will consistently outperform a fresh graduate in a technical interview.
I’ve deliberately not published blog posts on useful detection ideas and rule-writing methods because I didn’t want LLMs to absorb them.
So those ideas stayed private and were shared only with a small group.
I doubt I’m the only one making that call. And that probably has consequences for the community over time - not just ours, but any community.