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Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by nostrebored »

kubanczyk wrote: post #65
subliun1 wrote: post #59

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> Nitpick but it's "median" not "average". “average noun 1. a number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.“

average the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/average

If you're going to nitpick, use the mathematical definition where averages are measures of central tendency. The median is one of those measures.

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by nostrebored »

formerly_proven wrote: post #44
bArray wrote: post #17

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> [..] most people really do suck at their jobs. If fact, 50% of people perform below average! 50% of the population also have below average IQ. > Actually no, some of us actually have our shit sorted out > and are actual adults. I believe that everybody has an "inner child", but most functioning adults have built layers around that inner self to enhance their behaviour to that of what we externally perceive as an "a…

> If fact, 50% of people perform below average! 50% of the population also have below average IQ. That's not necessarily true and for IQ I think it's only true because IQ measures are normalized to an average of 100 and a normal distribution with a set standard deviation. For example if out of ten people nine perform at 100 %, and one performs at 95 %, then the average performance would be 99.5 % and 90 % of people w…

"Different concepts of average are used in different contexts. Often "average" refers to the arithmetic mean, the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are being averaged. In statistics, mean, median, and mode are all known as measures of central tendency, and in colloquial usage any of these might be called an average value."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by pnutjam »

jstummbillig wrote: post #43
Negitivefrags wrote: post #3

Imposter syndrome such a popular thing to belive in because actually most people really do suck at their jobs. I see a similar sentiment all the time where people say things along the lines of "Nobody really feels like an adult, we are all just muddling through" etc etc. Actually no, some of us actually have our shit sorted out and are actual adults.

Certainly. But then again claiming that most people suck at their jobs does not particularly scream "has sorted shit out", when in fact, on average, people are average at their jobs -- so maybe at least in some of these cases there's still some room left for healthy self-doubt.

People are average at their jobs is not necessarily true.

One competent person can cover for at least 2 or 3 below average people, maybe more.

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by kubanczyk »

nostrebored wrote: post #71
kubanczyk wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

average the result you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/average

If you're going to nitpick, use the mathematical definition where averages are measures of central tendency. The median is one of those measures.

Calling all the measures of central tendency "averages" is colloquial, not formal. Check your sources if you're going to nitpick my nitpicking.

Saying "literally" in place of "figuratively" and then referencing the Oxford dictionary (meaning C, look no further) is a cool way to troll, and to make a fool of oneself.

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by pnutjam »

martindbp wrote: post #38
Hackbraten wrote: post #30

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Don’t assume that what’s easy for you is easy for everyone else. There’s more to getting out of debt than just basic math. I’ve been trying to keep track of my expenses for more than 20 years but no success so far. I do have online banking and a list of contracts but there’s no way for me to figure out how much money I actually have left. Because for example, that yearly medical copay may be around the corner. I have…

I actually don't think you need to track expenses much, at least I don't. I did at first at 18 just to make sure I could survive on the $1000 I got in loans and subsidies by the government at the time. What I recommend is to focus on the big expenses, those are what gets you. That is, housing, transportation, medical (if you live in the US, but there's maybe not much you can do here). Don't go for the most expensive…

I'm on the Midwest, it's not as easy over here as you think.

The salary of your first job can hold down your income for a decade, you might not even realize how underpaid you are.

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by nostrebored »

kubanczyk wrote: post #75
nostrebored wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're going to nitpick, use the mathematical definition where averages are measures of central tendency. The median is one of those measures.

Calling all the measures of central tendency "averages" is colloquial, not formal. Check your sources if you're going to nitpick my nitpicking. Saying "literally" in place of "figuratively" and then referencing the Oxford dictionary (meaning C, look no further) is a cool way to troll, and to make a fool of oneself.

I don't understand why you're mad that someone cited the Oxford definition to you. It's not trolling.

You're wrong, and you can see this by looking at any number of published news articles where more often than not, average is used to mean median. You can see this from the way that we use average to mean typical. 'Typical' features are more likely to be median or mode than arithmetic mean.

'Average' is itself a colloquialism, so the colloquial use is what's important.

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by yelloweyes »

Negitivefrags wrote: post #3

Imposter syndrome such a popular thing to belive in because actually most people really do suck at their jobs. I see a similar sentiment all the time where people say things along the lines of "Nobody really feels like an adult, we are all just muddling through" etc etc. Actually no, some of us actually have our shit sorted out and are actual adults.

lol sure thing bud

you are the one who has shit figured out

how arrogant to think you know anything in this vastly complex world. you don't have anything figured out. you're just arrogant and have a narrow view of the world.

Re: Healthy Self-Doubt

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Post by vvanders »

sokoloff wrote: post #63
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #58

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> data structure and associated algorithms That's the thing. 99% of programming is Big Data (and windows, thereof), so everyone is on about that. I tend to write stuff that is on a much more humble scale, like device control software, or systems that are used by thousands (not millions) of people. I guess that I could say that "Any programmer should know about ring buffers," as that was a staple of my device driver s…

I agree that programmers should know about (the existence of the concept of) ring buffers, hardware handshakes, interrupts, synchronous vs asynchronous and serial vs parallel data communications, error detection/correction systems, grey codes, Karnaugh maps and logic glitching, split clock domains, etc. If you tell me “I don’t want to know about anything that I don’t need clearly and presently to accomplish my next t…

The parent is not wrong, coming up on two decades in this industry(and much more to keeping before that), the number of times I've encountered a binary tree is near zero. Only thing close was BSP trees in some engines we've licensed. There are parts of CS that get heavily over emphasised and parts that are neglected but super important.

It's also been my experience that the hardware things you mention are not well understood by most developers(it's a level of abstraction that honestly they don't need to worry about unless you want the last bit of performance from a piece of hardware).

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