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Nop, happiness is about having $10M in assets and earning $1M a year in royalties. Believe me. Until then, keep coding...

george_morgan 16y ago
Do go on.
- dunstad 16y ago
  Can't a guy trail off if he wants to in this place?
ruslan 16y ago
If I had that wealth I would still keep coding... just for fun and for the sake of coding! Probably I would focus on something extraordinary, like robotics or AI.
- juliend2 16y ago
  Then why don't you focus on robotics or AI right now? Life is too short for NOT focusing on something you find extraordinary.
  - cglee 16y ago
    Because you can afford to suck in something you find extraordinary when you're rich, whereas you can't if you need to get paid.
  - robryan 16y ago
    Usually these kind of goals are ones that are only realistic if you have already made it big and can fund something expensive without the need to see real returns for a long time. Like what Elon Musk has done with spacex, wouldn't have been possible without large personal wealth.
- Aetius 16y ago
  Robotics or AI, while respectable, are not extraordinary. To do extraordinary work, you'll probably have to go into biology, although I'm too uneducated to know which subfield. From afar, computational and synthetic biology look very promising. So if I got rich, that's probably where I'd put my efforts.
  - dandelany 16y ago
    Wow, it seems a little presumptuous of you to believe you have the foresight to determine which fields are extraordinary and which are simply respectable, don't you think?
    - Aetius 16y ago
      You're right. It is very presumptuous,almost to the point of pretension. I would change the post if I could. I don't actually know what field will be extraordinary and which will be simply respectable. However, I can understand AI and robotics, and from what I've seen, there isn't extraordinary work being done (please feel free to prove otherwise). There are only incremental advances being made that improve our lives by small steps. What I can't understand is biology; it is unimaginably complex, which is why is why now I'm kind of wishing I had majored in it rather than computer science.
      - ruslan 16y ago
        There are many extraordinary things have been done in robotics in recent, and a lot many to be done yet. Just try to "teach" a self-balancing biped to run. In theory it's possible to run over walls and ceiling in your room (if you run fast enough), but damn hard to implement. I admire what Anybots and Big Dog guys do.
      - masomenos 16y ago
        No idea what "extraordinary" means to you, but the scenarios reported in Peter Singer's recent book on military robotics, Wired for War, represent some potentially huge shifts. They may not "improve our lives" though.
      - 16y ago
ryandvm 16y ago
You sound insufferable.
rml 16y ago
Rarely have I laughed aloud like I did upon reading this.
jimbokun 16y ago
"Believe me." Why should I believe you?

george_morgan 16y ago

Do go on.

dunstad 16y ago
Can't a guy trail off if he wants to in this place?

ruslan 16y ago

If I had that wealth I would still keep coding... just for fun and for the sake of coding! Probably I would focus on something extraordinary, like robotics or AI.

juliend2 16y ago
Then why don't you focus on robotics or AI right now? Life is too short for NOT focusing on something you find extraordinary.
- cglee 16y ago
  Because you can afford to suck in something you find extraordinary when you're rich, whereas you can't if you need to get paid.
- robryan 16y ago
  Usually these kind of goals are ones that are only realistic if you have already made it big and can fund something expensive without the need to see real returns for a long time. Like what Elon Musk has done with spacex, wouldn't have been possible without large personal wealth.
Aetius 16y ago
Robotics or AI, while respectable, are not extraordinary. To do extraordinary work, you'll probably have to go into biology, although I'm too uneducated to know which subfield. From afar, computational and synthetic biology look very promising. So if I got rich, that's probably where I'd put my efforts.
- dandelany 16y ago
  Wow, it seems a little presumptuous of you to believe you have the foresight to determine which fields are extraordinary and which are simply respectable, don't you think?
  - Aetius 16y ago
    You're right. It is very presumptuous,almost to the point of pretension. I would change the post if I could. I don't actually know what field will be extraordinary and which will be simply respectable. However, I can understand AI and robotics, and from what I've seen, there isn't extraordinary work being done (please feel free to prove otherwise). There are only incremental advances being made that improve our lives by small steps. What I can't understand is biology; it is unimaginably complex, which is why is why now I'm kind of wishing I had majored in it rather than computer science.
    - ruslan 16y ago
      There are many extraordinary things have been done in robotics in recent, and a lot many to be done yet. Just try to "teach" a self-balancing biped to run. In theory it's possible to run over walls and ceiling in your room (if you run fast enough), but damn hard to implement. I admire what Anybots and Big Dog guys do.
    - masomenos 16y ago
      No idea what "extraordinary" means to you, but the scenarios reported in Peter Singer's recent book on military robotics, Wired for War, represent some potentially huge shifts. They may not "improve our lives" though.
    - 16y ago

ryandvm 16y ago

You sound insufferable.

rml 16y ago

Rarely have I laughed aloud like I did upon reading this.

jimbokun 16y ago

"Believe me." Why should I believe you?