internetman55

Taking sips of coffee throughout the day is actually an awful idea, btw. You should drink it with meals or at least drink the cup at once, otherwise you're gonna be exposing your teeth continuously to an acidic beverage without giving them time to remineralize.

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1 credit is about 60-80hrs max of study right? Seems reasonable to spend that much time preparing for tech interviews if you wanna go into my field. My friends who weren't smart and too lazy to put in effort spent that much probably

Umm my parents had this idea. It seems that me and my siblings internalized the idea that our parents didn't like/care about us and ended up with quite low self esteem. Most of us developed some anxiety disorders or depressive issues. Now my 24 year old brother sits in my parents house and plays DotA all day and my parents just complain about how he needs to get a job.

e: this is after massive academic self sabotage that ended up with him barely graduating from high school on the special ed track despite being probably 130+iq. He would show up late to every class, refuse to do his assignments, and roll his eyes and loudly yawn to mock the teachers the teachers before falling asleep at his desk. Despite this he'd still end up topping out exams in physics, chemistry, etc. But there were other issues at play like my mother being sick our whole childhood and my father having emotional and social problems from an abusive childhood.

Well, the truth is that you are ignoring her, right? You're focusing on whatever you're working on instead of maintaining the ability to even communicate with her.

I had a job where I seemed to be evaluated primarily based on how I talked in meetings. After realizing this, I cut back on the effort I was willing to put into development, cause it would impair my ability to discuss stuff there. Unfortunately some management got quite mad cause I wasn't able to pump stuff out like before. Inside I was just like "you're the one setting the incentives here bruh" lol. I had much better quality of life when I was able to defend myself in meetings so I just stopped working hard.

Yeah, none of the managers I've met with that sort of negative attitude have been successful. I hope that he straightens himself out and gets it together soon, especially if he has a family that relies upon him for income. He seems to have some good thoughts in other parts of the essay though.

You can certainly afford to live in towns with fine schools for way less than 200k/yr in my home state (NJ).

As I understand it, meat (non-fish meat) was considered a luxury, not the other way around. But I'm not 100% sure of the context.

>As a man, I've been fortunate enough never to have been put in a situation where I've had to doubt that interest in my work was merely a ploy to get me in bed.

Um, this kind of thing happens quite often to men.

Strang's exposition can make you a wizard of matrix multiplication and give you quite a good intuition for various properties of matrix operations, in my opinion.

I don't understand what's so wrong about that. Surely the interested student would like to learn about the properties of matrix arithmetic as well as vector spaces, linear transformations and their representation as matrices, etc.

I've had a quite accomplished mathematician for a professor who was very adamant that students should learn about basic matrix operations before the abstract theory. According to him, his undergraduate education at Princeton did things the "right" way, but left him quite confused about the main ideas and motivations. He ended up making some quite important contributions to the theory of representations of some certain algebraic structures if I recall correctly.

This is true. The CS folks are my university tended to be quite strict about writing out quantifiers for everything, while a very accomplished math researcher in our department told our class to "please write in English" instead of using those symbols, because he wouldn't be able to read them.

I asked a friend why he thought this was, and he suspected that the CS department's focus on formal languages and automatic theorem proving is what lead to their use of logical symbols.

Well, at least people might end up engaging in fewer self-destructive behaviors as a result either way.

I feel like society is using science to rediscover the basic findings of the moral theologians. Compare the daughters (secondary effects) of lust listed by Thomas Aquinas to all the newly "scientifically verified" side effects of pornography use.

"Now, if coworkers or management are too incompetent for even that, sure, even the best developer would have a bad time."

I haven't worked with his team, but based on my experience with the company, it's possible that there was some of this, and people being so demoralized that they let the incompetent guy with the most standing make stupid decisions and then just do what he says. But they may not have been as bad.

Well, it was just an internship he got through a relative. He ended up there after getting dinged from Google due to some issue with his class standing or something. He got a much better job after, and then suffered some very tragic personal circumstances, so I'm not quite sure what he is up to now. But I have great hope for his future.

Lots of companies don't actually want "rockstars". I know someone from college with incredible quantiative and programming skills. He started taking rigorous college level math classes and writing his own compression schemes in high school. He got his undergrad degree in about 2 years by getting permission to enroll in 4+ graduate computer science courses each semester instead of doing the normal curriculum.

When he got hired to do boring tech work at the company I worked at, he just freaked everyone out. The questions he asked were too pointed and he would just do things correctly instead of doing what his boss said. Since he was extremely gifted and had offers to work at other (better) firms, threat of job loss didn't mean anything. All his managers basically hated him.

I've had coworkers who were obese, childless at a relatively advanced age (around 40), poor relationship with their significant other, etc. tell me about how they spend their downtime making sure their manager meets their deadlines and studying documentation, sometimes working til 2 in the morning.

I'd rather just get laid off and collect unemployment for a few months then spend another week ruining my life like that tbh

Yeah, I'm surprised that more people on here aren't making this connection.

But that's actually a bad idea in many cases. If a severely out of shape person decides to act like a runner by running everyday, he is very likely to hurt himself relatively quickly or need physical therapy, especially if he is overweight.

I feel like this only works if you already have a good manager. A bad one will just say 'both' and then keep complaining that they aren't both done.

The way to deal with this email style (in my experience) is to read absolutely nothing into any aspect of the communication and respond succinctly to exactly what they said. But that would probably only work if your boss is writing that way because he's actually trying to manage many things and communicate efficiently. If he's doing it as a way to look cool or whatever, he might just get mad at you.

Not someone with any medical expertise, but here is some stuff I kind of think

-Don't get fat. Stay at a healthy weight forever

-Eat a balanced diet, 3 meals a day

-Walk daily

-Get up from desk and move every so often

-Sleep enough

-Don't overwork

-Go to the dentist every 6 months and do what they say

--Don't skip the dentist because you don't have insurance or something. Cleanings every 6 months are necessary for keeping your gums healthy, even if you brush and floss

-Do some strength exercises a few days a week (calisthenics or weights)

--Always prioritize not injuring your joints or back over gains

--Go to a doctor and PT if you injure yourself, don't start doing random foam roller stuff from the internet

It's interesting how the author reads the male behavior as indicating authority/confidence/etc. I usually just read it as poor social skills and general lack of awareness.

When did some of these of prominent tech people begin thinking that acting like psychopaths was the way to achieve business success?

Yeah, my parents got in trouble with this cause they had to sell their investments at a loss to live on. This is why I plan on keeping a significant amount of cash on hand (don't want to ever have to sell at a loss).

Well, that's an interesting question, and it's helping me to realize that my arguments have been quite muddled and imprecise. In the case of my ancestors, there are a few points I think are relevant. One, Christianity was a split from a several thousand years old religion, and two, my ancestors presumably joined it under the regular supervision of teachers in this faith. So even though I mixed these two points together and lost sight of my middle argument, I would agree that joining Buddhism or Islam or something under the supervision of a competent and sane teacher (and you do have to be careful here, same goes for Christianity) would likely be safer than doing drugs and miscellaneous religious practices you read about from the internet. But I guess I'm worried about the number of crazy teachers in all religions now that we're discussing this. I guess I just think everyone should take this stuff with a bit of respect and stay safe.

Assuming that I'm speaking to someone of Western European descent, I see no reason to jettison the tradition that your ancestors (i.e. people with similar genetic, cultural, and temperamental factors) slowly developed over time in order to experiment with random things unless you are specifically anti-Christian. The truth is that spirituality can be quite dangerous if you do the wrong things, and if you're gonna start pulling things out of random traditions or the pharmacy with no cultural context for them, I think you're gonna be taking very unnecessary risks.

For whatever reason, foreign religious figures such as the Dalai Lama have more cachet than Christian figures in the minds of many modern people, and from what I understand he has stated the same thing:

"Whenever I give a large teaching, I always make clear that it is safer to follow your own traditions, rather than change to another tradition," he said. "There's less confusion. Here in the West, I do not think it advisable to follow Buddhism. Changing religions is not like changing professions. Excitement lessons over the years, and soon you are not excited, and then where are you? Homeless inside yourself."

Some folks get so tied up to their anti-Christian sentiment that they'll try to join foreign religions they have no understanding of instead of just reading what the doctors of the Church have to say about the interior life, and admitting that maybe they were a bit hasty in writing off such a complex and beautiful tradition.

Then demand for rental property goes up, rental unit supply goes up, and people like me get cheaper rent

I don't know why people experiment with bizarre techniques and experimental drugs. Western Europeans could just follow the Christian tradition to achieve better results more safely. People have been studying this stuff for millennia. Unfortunately we're so confused nowadays that people are gonna think of Jesus Camp and jumping around and shouting when they think of Christianity.