Right on. A sign of intelligence but more importantly of bravery, and generosity. A person that asks good questions in a class improves the class drastically, and usually learns more effectively than other students in the class.
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But sheesh! The first time I play the numbers puzzle on a computer in my life, and the first time in 30 years that I play it at all, and I find out some joker has snapped two of the pieces out and reversed them, making it unsolvable?! Diabolical!
But seriously, it doesn't have to be displayed with subtlety. Somebody offer OP $10K for this so you can use it as a paperweight on your desk.
For the longest time we all watched from the sidelines, hoping that the desire to turn off coal-fired power plants, and research often funded by tax dollars, would get the ball moving on solar. Now that the market has its magic invisible hand on that ball, it seems clear to me we have a path out of this mess.
Rant your stupid “drill baby drill” crap all you want magats, we are going to solar, wind, and fusion our way to a better world, and there is nothing you can do to stop us.
Yes yes! Although, in an interview, there is not always an easy way to separate out people that can’t say “I don’t know” during day to day work, from those that can. But what a difference. A strong need to hide a lack of omniscience is wildly irritating to me, in co-workers and people in general. It causes such problems!
And just like there is no still point in the universe, there is no up or down. So yes, it may be true that, IF you select a couple of arbitrary points in the universe to be up and down, THEN you can count how any galaxies spin left vs right. And it is way cool to find out that it doesn’t appear to be 50/50, and to wonder about why. But I think the article author did the readers a disservice by glossing over the “no up or down” fact.
I weigh over 200 pounds. I would never walk up to a weight bar and military press 200 pounds cold. I regret that I used to walk up to a pull up bar and pull down with 200 pounds of force cold, I think it caused me shoulder trouble that was made worse by long days of intense keyboard/mouse work, and the caffeine in one or two cups of coffee per day.
Want to keep a distractable 14 year old busy for an hour? Give him or her some wire, a cheap meter, a battery, some switches and LEDs. Want to possibly change that kid’s life? Give him the above, plus a scope, and hook it up to a music player playing his favorite song.
You have to be good at your job, good at the specialty, and more interested in doing the right thing for the company (and more irritated at the stupidity of the files being there 10 years after they were needed) than you are at looking productive to management. Management does not want to hear “well there was a directory structure of two million files that was a backup of a Linux machine from 8 years ago, I spent two days extracting the dozen files that we might need some day, getting the okay to proceed, and deleting the files.”