@@caglioso in capacity and role yes, but they are slightly different. A president of a university has to be elected or appointed. A chancellor is strictly appointed, although it can be done so by election. The major difference is the people appointing. A president would be appoint by a committee or board of directors within the school or country scholastic system. This can also include 3rd parties like the government, businesses, and individuals of wealth/influence. A chancellor will often be appointed by the governing body or invested party. Kingdoms and Dukedoms would appoint them within their region, or if the school was entirely privately funded then the investor/s would appoint them. Headmaster and Chancellor suffer a similar difference to. They are the same except a head master can be self-appointed, like if they owned the school themselves.
I think the writers made the joke that: at an Ivey league school like Stanford, you can’t get in as a student if you’re mediocre, but they’ll hire anyone to teach as long as they did something famous...
Let’s be clear , no one knew how big head got to the top ( other than some people ) ... and everybody thought that somebody who got on wired cover page like that would know what to do and how to do it ! They probably thought of him as bill gates returning to take his degree
Yeah but even after some teachers on Stanford learned that Big Head wasn't the genius that everyone thought he menaged to fail his way to the presidency of Stanford.
I was once employed at a multi-billion dollar hardware company as an Intermediate Solder Technician for 60k/year. I had never once touched a Solder gun. First I applied by filling out almost nothing on their online application except my name and contact info then uploaded a flaky Resume on it. I had to bc I needed evidence to keep my Unemployment Check coming. They called me for an interview, which stunned me. What I did do was be myself at that interview. By that, I mean I answered EVERY singe interview question with something I did in World of Warcraft. I told them, I hate overtime, I don't manage my time well, I have no ambition. They hired me immediately. Turns out, 3 of 4 interviewers were hardcore MMORPG players from Everquest, Eve, and SWOTR. I was hired in October with 168 hours of vacation pay for the rest of the year. Which i burned through got my paid holidays and quit in Feb. It was pretty cool.
No, you've got it exactly backwards. Getting into most elite schools, like Stanford, can be insanely difficult but once you're in it's not nearly the same challenge to stay. Grade inflation and Gentleman's Cs are real. Plus one of the metrics publications like US News & World Report use to rank colleges/universities is graduation rates. So many top tier schools are somewhat "incentivized" to not fail people. You might not have a very good GPA at the end of your time there, but you aren't likely to get the heave-ho unless you aren't trying at all.
I've been a Big Head my entire career. Early on I put myself in the right place (San Francisco) at the right time (pretty much any time) and surrounded myself with smart and ambitious people. Poof, opportunity rained down on my head. All it took was letting go of my safe hometown situation and the dive bar, watching sports every weekend lifestyle. I'm not the smartest guy in the room or even the hardest working but I took some risks early on and that's really all it took. And now I get to go jump in my the pool with my dogs.
I wish this show would have played out their scenes a little longer. Show him trying to lecture, don't just allude to it. There are lots of points in this show where they omit the next scene because they assume we already got the joke. Sure we got it, but it would be funny to continue and play it out.
The way life turned out for Big Head was like truly a wow moment throughout the season, this series is like so much fun because it actually tells how crazy Silicon Valley is, anything can happen thee, including in Stanford
I worked at a firm where they made fun of people that came from Stanford. The joke was they went to Stanford got a degree in Finance, they all went to work for Bank of America. Bank of America gave them a software program where they didn’t have to think and didn’t learn anything... then 10 years later nobody else would ever hire them so they were stuck making 80k a year
I dont think I have seen many people fail upwards like this, but I have seen many people with no ability bluster their way to the top when I worked in tech...
Fábio Ramos Even if he was useless, he kept getting higher, easier and better positions in life. BigHead had impeccable luck. The one thing Pied Piper needed a lot
No. In fact there is some hostility toward apple among many tech enthusiasts. Last that I was a TA of primary school level block coding, both myself and the head teacher were like wtf are these mac things and how do you use them. So no.
So I was a CS student at my college, and literally, almost all the other students including myself used ThinkPads or other business-class notebooks with Linux installed or Windows with a Linux Virtual Machine. The kids with the gaming laptops and Macs who thought it was going to be hacker hijinks, and playing video games/partying all the time because they watched the Facebook movie and other tech movies that falsely portray the IT community were quick to drop out or change majors. On the other hand, though, the video production majors and recording arts majors all had Macbooks.
I once asked a computer tech a similar question. He replied, "Why do macs only have a single button on their mouse? Because apple users are too fucking stupid to understand 'Right Click.'"
your thinking of halt and catch fire which premiered around the same time as this show and takes place in the late 70s to 80s. this show is about all the tech start ups that happened in the past decade. it's kind of a spoof. and it really faded imo. neither is halt and catch fire
