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This submission is about you.
Aw, come on. " Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Truly inspiring. I am in my late forties, and I was wondering if I have enough time to learn Haskell, now I have no reason not to.
The Berlin FP group on Meetup just finished the haskellbook.com , you're just in time to join in with the next reading group!
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> > minus temperatures > Nitpick: it is difficult to take a shower with water in solid form (ice). Nitpick: having a temperature below zero does not necessarily mean that it is in a solid form; for example, it could be at a high pressure or not have a nucleus to freeze around (supercooling).
I’d like to see a video of this hypothetical subzero shower stream turning to a block of ice around an unsuspecting nucleus. Bonus points if you can scale it up to a mannequin.
I do think it would be interesting to see it, though.
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There's a premise here that deserves scrutiny -- that longevity (beyond reproductive age) has evolutionary benefits. Nature may well prefer that older individuals die off.
longevity has many evolutionary benefits, the biggest one being that older generation can pass on survival-essential knowledge and skill to the younger generations. this process exists not only in humans, but in most animals, and the improvement is continuous, it never stops. furthermore, the longest-surviving individuals (with the tightest bonds) are able to pass on the most survival knowledge to their descendants,…
My point is that it's challenging to make a watertight argument that "we should do X, because evolution suggests that we should."
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This is beautiful. I had a similar experience growing up as well. At age 8, I learned QBasic (on an MS-DOS / Win 3.1 system). At age 13, I learned C, and wrote a lot of code in it as well. (I used to write tons of C code up until around the middle of age 17. I had grand plans for all sorts of glorious software projects.) But then, at the middle of age 17, a certain mild depression ("dysthymia") set in, and I lost a l…
Not many people anywhere make 300-400k. It’s a lot of money. 200k is a lot of money. You are doing great. As long as you can do what you enjoy the money isn’t a big deal anyway. 200k is waaay above what the average programmer makes. Im guessing you know this and your insecurity doesn’t stem from compensation directly, but an indirect prestige and “am I doing enough” type thoughts.
It's more like "I am not accomplishing my goals and dreams" type thoughts.
I am just living an existence of working for tech companies (doing stuff valuable to people indeed), and making good money; but however, with the talents, and gifts, and skills that I've been gifted with, I could be doing so much more.
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longevity has many evolutionary benefits, the biggest one being that older generation can pass on survival-essential knowledge and skill to the younger generations. this process exists not only in humans, but in most animals, and the improvement is continuous, it never stops. furthermore, the longest-surviving individuals (with the tightest bonds) are able to pass on the most survival knowledge to their descendants,…
Fair point. But it has evolutionary disadvantages, too. If food scarcity has been a challenge across evolutionary scales (which seems reasonable), then the utility function might prioritize scarce resources for the reproductively fit. My point is that it's challenging to make a watertight argument that "we should do X, because evolution suggests that we should."
That's typically how it has been prioritized, if food scarcity was an issue.
> My point is that it's challenging to make a watertight argument that "we should do X, because evolution suggests that we should."
Sure, but most of the time I would bet dollars to donuts that environmental variables we evolved in will be better for us than new ones, just like in well-aged software time-tested inputs are more likely to work than new stuff you've never tried before.
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> I watch these types of videos and I can't help but wonder if we transcended the need for elderly advice or we just grown as a youth centric society. I think we've combined "youth-centric" with "faux-young" (aka immaturity), where 40-year olds are "excited" about the latest superhero movie and 50 year olds act like teenagers...
If you're unable to muster excitement for things you love purely because of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.
That's putting the cart before the horse.
Rather you should love things that fit your age and cognitive and culture development. I'd loved ice cream for breakfast and sunday morning cartoons too at 8. I'd have an infantilism problem if I still loved them at 40.
If you still watch teletubbies at 40 and are excited desipite of your age, I'm genuinely sorry for you.
Slightly less so if you are genuinely excited about superheror movies, but still sorry.
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Not many people anywhere make 300-400k. It’s a lot of money. 200k is a lot of money. You are doing great. As long as you can do what you enjoy the money isn’t a big deal anyway. 200k is waaay above what the average programmer makes. Im guessing you know this and your insecurity doesn’t stem from compensation directly, but an indirect prestige and “am I doing enough” type thoughts.
> an indirect prestige and “am I doing enough” type thoughts It's more like "I am not accomplishing my goals and dreams" type thoughts. I am just living an existence of working for tech companies (doing stuff valuable to people indeed), and making good money; but however, with the talents, and gifts, and skills that I've been gifted with, I could be doing so much more .