snooblywoobly

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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
I woke up one day 4 years ago and realised that I wanted to learn mathematics. I realised I had always wanted to learn Mathematics - only I had never before understood what it actually was. I now have a MSc in mathematics and I am getting t
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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
You're analogy may be a nice one, but I don't feel this detracts from the details of the piece. I am a professional developer and have a MSc in Mathematics yet the maths in this article is at the very upper reach of what I can understand. T
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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
It's my experience that getting a pay rise in the same job is rather difficult in small/medium sized companies. The only way I have so far accomplished it is to move. Opinions tend to be quite viscous, it takes a lot of energy applied over
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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
I was irritated and fell back upon the Socratic method, it's condescending, I'm sorry. It may be that dismantling IP would have the effects you describe. But I would argue that this is not necessarily an argument against IP, it could also
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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
And do you realise how twisted the goals of corporations become when they operate in a world entirely motivated by profit?
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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
No he's not. It's just the truth.
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by snooblywoobly 14y ago
I think the comments on hacker news, in general, need to be a little more tolerant of ambiguity. Just because a statement is not immediately verifiable or is imprecise, it does not mean that it is without worth. The scientific method is a w