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Ah, yes, thank you for the explanation.

> It can't be that intelligent people can disagree with you on what is important and what is not in a language.

This is quite harsh sarcasm, but if it isn't true for the GP, it's true for so many people. Well said.

Ah, now I understand. You're saying that it's fallacious to believe that an upswing will necessarily have a downswing, and vice versa, is that correct?

What I understood (due to hastily coming to conclusions) was it is dangerous to believe that life has lows and highs.

> The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OojsLDYr7RY

> This perspective that life is a narrative with upswings and downswings can itself be treacherous.

Is this not certainly true?

> Your life is not a prewritten narrative with defined story arcs.

It seems to be that someone could believe in the statement before this and not this.

I strongly disagree, for entertainment is not the only reason I read things.

The author, as it seemed to me, opened the topic of three semi-related issues -

  people who've done an incredible amount,

  social media and how he reacted to growth,

  and how life is after you've reached (what seems to be) your highest point

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

TL; DR: You're changing OSes, expect for a complete change in landscape.

> A different bunch of volunteers were asked to roll the die just once

Was anyone else surprised to see "bunch"? Why did they use that, when "group" would be a much better word?

> "In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few."

As someone who likes to read quotes and examine the wisdom within (or at least I tell myself that), I see no wisdom here.

The only possible interpretation which I find makes sense, is that the priorities of the expert are much clearer then the beginners. The expert (through experience and intelligence) knows what matters, and what details are not critical. The beginner however, places great importance on things which are near-worthless.

If that is the more correct interpretation, then I find the wording clumsy. If this isn't then please enlighten me.

Are you replying to me or the article?

Wrote my first makefile, which was quite an experience.

https://github.com/mustafa0x/pafm/blob/master/Makefile

Minified:

  Why I'm working for the man and not doing a startup?
  Stability and lack of passion.

Two good reasons, however, not too insightful (subjective).

Didn't want people to assume emphasis was mine.

(completely off topic)

for the rule:

       %.gz: %

edit, that rule above only makes sense to me if the file name to be gzipped was passed to make. Is that correct? (I'm new to make)

FTA:

> We constantly have to ask ourselves: are we causing any issues or slowdowns on our customers’ websites? [sic]

The GP's noting of irony (is that correct?) seems to be valid.

> If website backgrounds really bother you

While I'm sure you didn't mean it this way, your wording deflects blame from the site's retarded text contrast to the GP (robomartin).

(no snark intended)

Side note: have mercy on your readers and make the text contrast a bit higher.

.NET isn't a framework?

Mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

FTA:

> This is why I don't believe in computer science degrees. What you learned 5 years ago may not be relevant today.

CS degrees aren't about what you learned, but what concepts your mind digested and grew from.

Blogspam. Wikipedia's page on Launchy is more useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchy

pieces on the ground? Care to give an example of this?

> Jobs aren't obsolete. There are plenty of jobs. Part time, low wage, no benefits jobs.

The 600,000 the article mentioned were mostly of this type, I presume (not the part time maybe, but the other two).

E.g. Secretarial/bureaucracy type jobs which rarely pay more then $15/hour, and usually ~$10/hour, are quickly being replaced with computers.

> Careers? Full time, living wage that can support a family, full benefits packages? Those are becoming obsolete, and fast.

I wouldn't say obsolete. I doubt they're growing at the same rate of the population, but there are still many fields where building a career is a reasonable venture.

> But it also dismisses the value of ideas too glibly. Bill Gates may have

Agreed.

> It doesn't seem odd to anyone that we're reading a post describing the author's epiphany that epiphanies are useless?

Not overly so. Meta can cause strange cases of logic at times (e.g. there are always exceptions).

Thanks, he made some strong points. I transcribed the most relevant part:

  If you don't want to run out of ideas, the best thing to do is not to execute them
  You can tell yourself that you don't have the time or resources to do them right
  Then they stay around in your head like brain crack
  So no matter how bad it gets, at least you have those "good ides" that you'll get to "later"
  Some people get addicted to that brain crack
  and the longer they wait, the more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea should be executed
  and they imagine it on a beatiful platter with glitter and rose petals
  and everybody is clapping, *for them*
  but the bummer is must ideas kinda suck when you do them
  and no matter how much you plan, you still have to do something for the first time
  and you're almost guaranteed the first time you do something it'll blow
  but somebody who does something bad three times still has 3x the experience of that other person who's still dreaming of all the applause.
  when I get an idea, even a bad one, I try to get it out in the world asap
  cause I certainly do not want to get addicted to brain crack

Two different issues

As Ze Frank said:

  "The longer they [those with the "good" ideas] wait, the
  more they convince themselves of how perfectly that idea 
  should be executed, and they imagine it on a beatiful 
  platter with glitter and rose petals."

Excellent points, thank you. Point 6 is quite critical.

Thank you for not taking offense.

scotch_drinker accurately described my sentiments. Generalizing the points he made, I'll say two (and half) things:

1. Up the level of your writing a bit. It's currently in ripped jeans and an Ed Hardy shirt (have'nt?!). Don't go full black tie, but at least get a blazer and clean pair of jeans on. See here: http://www.wikihow.com/Avoid-Colloquial-%28Informal%29-Writi...

2. (a) Have one point (your thesis), and make sure (virtually) every sentence is directly related to it. You had far too many distractions. The fact that you were a "negger" and some people benefited from being one is completely irrelevant.

2. (b) Make sure very sentence is strongly related to your thesis. E.g. if you want to show how it's a nice day, don't say you went for a walk, tell me you went to the beach. An example from your post would be the great implementers you mentioned. Mentioned fewer implementers, but when giving one, expound a bit, and show the reader how much it related - or is applicable - to your thesis.

What atrocious writing.

The message (which was poorly conveyed) is correct however. Have results as soon as you possibly can (just try not to sacrifice too much elegance).

A (lousy) example would be Linux & GNU Hurd.