I have practically no chance of getting a job in software development or something similar.
I'm prone to being misquoted, which is probably worse than being misunderstood (I learnt I was prone to being misunderstood when I was about six).
I really enjoy hideous data structures.
There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well.
In the past, I have been classed as dumb by many different people. The term "intelligence" is hard to define, especially these days with lumps of silicon and metal being used to predict the weather up to five days in advance and simulating nuclear detonations. Because of this it is very open to interpretation. The closest I've got to a reasonable definition is nicked off Greg Chaitin, a researcher in information theory:
Furnish an intelligence with a block of data, if the intelligence can compress the data, it has achieved some understanding of it.
> There, if you have difficulties to express yourself, it's just a matter of interview training. I am sure you will do well.
Unfortunately, I hardly ever get interviews. I have trouble getting a minimum wage job. The last interview I attended I mentioned writing a C program to determine the positive square root of two to fifteen decimal places without resorting to the standard library. As soon as I started trying to explain how it worked (just successive approximations then squaring the answer to check it), I think I blew their fuses.
I think Jeff Atwood has written about prospective employees not passing fizzbuzz. He also mentioned people who claimed to have 15 years experience in software development taking 15 minutes to make a solution.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#1390894695.273252
#07:38:15 28/01/2014
#fizzbuzz.pl
use warnings;
use strict;
my $i=1;
for( ; $i<=100; ++$i) {
if(!($i%3)) {
print "fizz";
}
if(!($i%5)) {
print "buzz";
}
if($i%3 and $i%5) {
print "$i";
}
print "\n";
}