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He buried the lede: "Drawing comic strips for five years without pay drove home the point that the fun of cartooning wasn't in the money; it was in the work."
by asah 3y ago
He buried the lede: "Drawing comic strips for five years without pay drove home the point that the fun of cartooning wasn't in the money; it was in the work."
My advice is similar: don't do what you love, do what you can stand doing for 10 hours a day.
When people ask about software development, I say: can you debug one line of code for 10 hours straight? if so, then you can be a software engineer.
(actually, I've had to chase bugs for 3+ days straight, but I don't mention this lest it scare the kiddies...)
- dkqmduems 3y ago3+ days is standard for code in academia hahah.
- algeom 3y agoAcademic mathematician here. I’ve been stuck on something for the last 20 years.
- blast 3y agoCan you tell us what it is?
- KRAKRISMOTT 3y agoProve this, and the Fields is yours. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture
- kwelstr 3y agoI have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain. ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)