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I felt exactly the same way upon finding the site and so had to share!

Jeff Haden refers to this mindset as a systems-oriented mindset as opposed to a goals-oriented mindset. He's written a great article about it here: http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/an…

I'll note that a search of '"learnlayout.com" site:news.ycombinator.com' on Google doesn't bring up any other threads, but searching through the footer of the HN site does.

Let's start a list of quality forums. You can never have too many.

Hooray for globes

But you can't force an interest in CS down people's throats. Holding "women for CS" events only makes the women in CS feel even more isolated from their male peers and does nothing…

I cannot agree more. Too many students find the subjects they are studying "pointless." Who will take the time to learn something they think (quite possibly rightfully so) is point…

This is based off general programming knowledge, as I have never used C++, but I think it is referring to a highly-modulated programming style that uses many general functions. I.e…

I am a high school student who cares about learning. I value the content of my subjects in school. But I am actively discouraged from learning at school. For example, I have a chem…