Jimmy

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by Jimmy 10y ago
Well, that's simply unacceptable to me. A stable six-figure job is failure. If I'm fated to try and fail for the rest of my life to break into the 1 in 10,000, then so be it.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Undoubtedly.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
There are many ungifted people who make their livings as mathematicians. Have you already abandoned math? If you haven't given up yet, there are likely things you can do to improve your chances of success.
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I get quite depressed when I read articles like this. I'm resentful of the fact that my early academic performance was merely above average, rather than exceptional. Some days I feel confident in my abilities and my plans for the futur
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I pretty much entirely agree with you. I reject all of the non-naturalistic positions you've outlined. I find it disappointing that non-naturalism is seeing a resurgence in metaethics, especially since I'm not even a moral realis
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>I'm well aware of moral naturalism, and ascribe to it myself. Huh. Well, I'm an error theorist. ;) >If you are a fan of seriously naturalistic philosophy, done well and in accordance with the best scientific evidence, than
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I'm aware that socialists don't frame their claims as moral claims. I'm not entirely sure if they're correct to do so, but I'm aware nonetheless. I'm also aware that some socialists hold views of agency that r
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by Jimmy 10y ago
How much philosophy do you know? Do you think you have free will? Some philosophers argue convincingly that you don't. And if there's no such thing as free will, where does that leave the notion of punishment in the criminal jus
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by Jimmy 10y ago
I said "intellectually intensive", not "meaningful". The majority of people throughout history worked manual labor jobs that weren't intellectually intensive, but they were often quite necessary. >If you think th
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by Jimmy 10y ago
100000% accurate article. It frustrates me when I see even professional programmers perpetuating the "Math Myth", as it's called here. "It's important for all programmers to have a foundation in CS theory!" No
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>This was flagged and dead and should be again. Strange. It almost sounds like you're afraid of this article for some reason? And I'm saying that as someone who abhors Trump and is trying to get everyone I know to vote for Hill
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Code academy graduate do not come out from their 6 week crash course with grasp on even basic mathematical principles and tools that are used for programming I wouldn't say that there are any such tools, not the kind that the avera
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by Jimmy 10y ago
>Somewhere in America, there is a college professor who will never buy a Prius. The outlier is not extraneous to the type; the outlier is essential to the type. sniff and theez iz the essence of the Hegelian dialectic, and so on and so
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by Jimmy 10y ago
Everyone should love their work, deeply. If you don't, then you should demand work that you do love. If it's impossible to get work that you love, then you should change the world.
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by Jimmy 11y ago
Zizek has written a lot of really fun and interesting books. I'd definitely encourage you to check him out, but just a word of warning: if he's the only living philosopher you can name, then you probably don't know enough ph
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by Jimmy 11y ago
>One thing I learned, rather quickly, is that most people don't like writing. Even well educated people don't like writing. Most people find it easier to talk than to write. Most people would rather talk an issue through than w
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by Jimmy 11y ago
Almost no philosophers today (who specialize in the philosophy of mind) believe in an immaterial soul. They believe that there is nothing beyond the physical when it comes to consciousness.
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by Jimmy 11y ago
Well the thing is, photorealism actually can be least - or at least we can imagine what reaching it would look like. A Start Trek-style holodeck, completely indistinguishable from real life, would be true photorealism. I highly doubt we&#
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by Jimmy 11y ago
You'll have to enlighten me.
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by Jimmy 11y ago
>Typeface design has a western normativity problem Why does it seem like everything has a western normativity problem? What things have an eastern normativity problem?
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by Jimmy 11y ago
I'm not a fan of that term. It sounds so stiff and formal. When people ask what I do, I make it a point to always say "programmer" rather than "developer" or "software engineer".
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by Jimmy 11y ago
Fascinating how the comments here are mostly critical. I think the tone would have been different if we were having this conversation when HN first started. Are we in the beginning of a wider, general cultural shift away from capitalist thi
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by Jimmy 11y ago
I've been a heavy procrastinator all my life, way back to elementary school (23 now). I've given up thinking that there is one simple intelligible cause of it, or that I will ever fully be "cured". It will likely be a
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by Jimmy 11y ago
I am proud to say that I will never download the Apple News app.
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by Jimmy 11y ago
One of the links from my page: "MySpace v. Facebook: It's Not a Decision. It's an IQ Test" Yeah, I joined a while ago.
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by Jimmy 11y ago
I can't see it ever happening. I first started learning Lisp in 2006. Some of the most common messages on Lisp forums were things like "what GUI library should I use?", "why is there no standard GUI?", "this li
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by Jimmy 11y ago
They don't accept the "it's just a joke" excuse from their targets, why should we accept it from them?
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by Jimmy 11y ago
>"if you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late" I think there's a lot of truth in this. I've been working on a video game on and off for the last year and a half. For
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by Jimmy 11y ago
If you're talking globally that's true, but do you think that's still true for modern industrialized nations? (USA/Canada/Western Europe/Japan/etc.)
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Mr. Difficult: William Gaddis and the Problem of Hard-To-Read Books (2002)(adilegian.com)
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