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Do as Architect is his thread said: find an interesting project and work on it. You will learn a lot along the way. This is what I did in Java when programming custom calculator. I even made my own custom icons :D Now I went into the land of pointers in c++. A lot more interesting(and...

With father - not good. He is an intp too but has totally different hobbies, world view and stuff... though he was always friendly when talking about mutual interests. Mother...well we are still close, much better relationship than with father. When I was growing up, I did not talk with my...

Very easily. Fake specialists come to work for fake organisation on education. Money and influence of rich guys make education system as it is now. Also another factor is laziness. Why bother changing system if it seems to be quite good? A lot of countries are either trying to show that they...

What's more is that I read countless research articles where results are stated like this: a person learns the best when he is interested and moves his body. Classroom is very opposite. You sit still, you usually are bored because they teach you what is in the curriculum not what you want to...

When I work my ass off and make stuff work! That makes me feel clever and persistent, maybe even slowly making dumb trait of impatience go away, :]

So my friend sent me a book on career, personality and skills. I spent two hours doing test on skills and personality. What is interesting about the test is that it timed: you must do each part in exact amount of minutes and no more. After that, there is a table where you calculate your iq from...

As Paul Graham stated in his essay, he as everyone else from adult world, feel regret that they wasted so much time. Now, after having finished school, I finally know what he means. :\ And yes, school was a joke, though in my country there are schools where you can learn a lot of extra stuff...

I suggest use your skills online. A lot of people used their knowledge to build great products and others bought them with pleasure. After that, you may even organise seminars, where professionals charge big money and like-minded people pay for their speech. There may be people who want to work...

Architect, nowadays there are only several professions which are kind of forever: 1) Medicine 2) Technology ( both fields require constant learning, which is good. I love learning.) 3) Farmers. Believe it or not. I live in rural area where many farms are around and the guys lived and had cattle...

I like his philosophy. He payed big money to developers while others were trying to downgrade payments. Few CEOs care about people to be honest. I feel that this is what attracted best developers, as he said hires spread the word to friends. We just heard another confirmation that it's...

I have a neighbor who is 85 years old. He lived his whole live in city but he did what other people just forget: he did care for his health. He looks like 65 and still walks 10 + km a day. Sometimes I see him running. Also he has his own garden where he grows stuff for himself. Also he's been...

In my opinion, you could take a year out but to do really what you described in option 3. However, I think you won't pull through whole year. Nature is harsh, y'know? I just ran 10km through snow and wind, fully clad in warm clothes. Yes I do run in winter too :D I ran and thought that I could...

I was astonished by classic music today. Just saw concert of New Year in Vienna...Amazing. I will start to listen to Vivaldi now...used to play "Winter" on accordion and now I'll listen hehe. I am a fan of hard rock, metal. I hate pop music, though I admire Bruno Mars. Idk why but he is cool...

I tried med school, biochemistry and found computers the most interesting. I am on my first subject choice and I have done loads of research before selecting Computer Science. It's interesting, logical and creative. I like it and will do it at university. I thought it's important to get some...

Architect Hello again. After seeing you having pursued a career in music, I can confirm that I had such intentions too. When I was 8, I started to attend music school where I took up classes on accordion. Teacher was demanding, crazy and amazing. When I was 12, we have already participated at...

I get a type error about float. This is in Python. I believe I'm messing up with if condition but cannot see my mistake lol. def a_func(f, epsilon): """ f: a function with 1 argument -->float epsilon: a small float to compare returns a guess after 100 iterations or...

Made through that code. Declared a function, a while loop, a for loop to check every month, then if statements are the same. if guess is too large, I just went back to while loop and used this approach until function returned the value, and print statement prints it out...I guess you saved your...

Why Americans decide their major in university? Aren't you wasting money during that time? Or am I wrong here?

I wonder how he drives traffic to his website. I know a few methods but his tactics must involve ads on popular blogs, otherwise it is not possible to drive traffic. Also 3k a month from promoting...if you take into account that only one percent of visitors will buy anything and you get only a...

Hello, I was always fascinated by miracles people can do with a guitar. I am not interested in other types of guitars because I have already tried acoustic. However, there is a saying: "Once you get some metal in our ears, you won't come back." That happened to me. I am fascinated by...

Would you accept the challenge to read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica just because it is unusual?

Do you know what I understood? As much as I would like to not be bothered and work alone, there will always be some interaction, communication and I just need to minimize the amount of dumb conversations and embrace new stuff or exciting people and their ideas. Also do not forget that people...

I will tell you honestly - don't listen to your parents. I did and somehow managed to get in to medicine. I left after one week. Now I have my own plan and going to strictly execute it. Now I am on my Gap Year in order to find out whether I like to work in software company or not. If not, I am...

Dude, I just started learning Java. I just went through and found what is double, int and array :D And now I am trying to do something...

So yeah, today I wrote a program in Java which solves simple quadratic equation. Good for me. But now I am trying to do this: Write a program that takes two positive integers as command-line arguments and prints true if either evenly divides the other.

:( I am reaaaaaly dummy type...so much to learn :D

I imagine that this problem asks to find a NUMBER not numbers which are missing...Thus simple arithmetic progression(sum of the list) - (given list of numbers) would result in missing number...Ofcourse, the second summing would be impossible to do by human because we don't know the number...

Well, I burned my fingers when I became lazy in my final year. After that, I always came home and done my homework right away even if it must be handed in after more than one day. So I developed a feeling that deadlines are important and I try to do everything before them to have more free time!!

Okay, basically I've spot this problem, I believe that it may be interesting to Architect Missing numbers. Imagine you are given a list of slightly less than 1,000,000 numbers, all different, and each between 0 and 999,999 inclusive. How could you find (in a reasonable time) a...

Wow, I recommend a course "Mathematical Thinking" on coursera.org; The course has some taste of "why I am learning this?" but on the lecture 2, that becomes fun and makes individual think outside the box :D Nothing like at school.

Yes it is truth about huge commitment needed to run a business...There was a TV show recently and very successful people confirmed that they just live in their business. It's their lifestyle and they feel alright because they want to live like this. So I guess it's nothing wrong with dealing...

Don't worry, I started my MIT application today :D I may be mad but I have 1% possibility to get in. Oh yeah SAT, just ordered a 2k pages book for maths :)

You need to take the biggest risks of starting anything when you are young, I guess. Then you have no obligations: family, loads of debt(sometimes); otherwise, it is notoriously difficult to take huge risks because child needs food to eat...your business may fail and thus it is dangerous...not...

Umm...usually it's not the case. Reality is that employers require piece of paper with 'cum laude' ... though in software engineering it's not always a case. :) To be honest, I won't be lazy. EDX.org offers that MIT course ( sweet ) and I am already learning Circuits and Electrical engineering...

Well, I know for sure that I will go to university unless I win a lottery and then I can go invest money and live off dividends...otherwise, I am not going to be a slacker. I believe I am already learning more than a first year in university...Two weeks in a row been reading and going to sleep...

My first destination is software firm where I will be taken as a dummy and they are going to teach me Java and Oracle databases.. :D Ambitious, but better than doing nothing. It is going to be a test of patience and I might finally decide that software engineering, specifically cryptography, is...

Hello, I am wondering whether anyone has taken any sort of Gap Year to broaden their horizons and experience the world. By that I mean, travel to a place you have ever wanted, worked in that job to earn money or joined that internship you thought may suit you for your future career. I hate...

My ideal job is the one which provides autonomy, independence, interaction with clever people; I know for sure that I want to have my own business of some kind because I loathe to be a dog of other person...To be honest, I would truly like to have balance between desk job and running around...

i have already read half the book. I can't stop and it is midnight here.

Wow, you are truly code man. For me, when I am so inexperienced, code is very hard to crack thing. When I try to comprehend one, I break it apart and just stare at it, trying to figure out what it means. I guess and then check my answers. Usually I fail of course but it is normal...To be honest...

Hi, brother, I am also in mindset of choosing programming. :) You are not alone.

The programming head said: "If you are going to succeed here, show some ability of comprehending this stuff, I advise you to stay here to work for us and attend university part-time." So I guess it is all again on my shoulders. :) The university gladly accepted me to defer entry for a year...so...

Architect What about this solution? One of my friends offered me opportunity to join his friends programming team in our capital. I would go there to work for free and in exchange, team leader would teach me programming, database supervision, cryptography. They specialize in bank systems...

i dropped out of medical school because i did not see a point to learn medicine when i will not be a doctor anyway...i had a conversation with my father who explained that i have one huge issue: lack of ability to communicate. He offered me to try military for a year but warned that there will...

http://learnpythonthehardway.org/book/advice.html This is the book where I learned my basics. Up till 35th I was okay but then it became hard. My friend sent me an ebook: 3D math primer for graphics which I found veeeeery interesting. Especially I liked basics which were laid out pretty well.

Analyzer, you've been studying what? Architect, how hard it is going to be for me if I am new in this field? I know how the code looks like, I tried mess around but it was very confusing. I mean I know so little that I cannot even understand why program like this...

Well, the uni's course says that : All first-year students are introduced to programming (Java) and to the fundamentals of Software Engineering and Computer Science. You'll also study the mathematical foundations of computer science. You'll learn about networks and computer architectures...

' Can anyone explain whether it is possible to succeed with only little knowledge such as arrays, variables, functions. Also I have a notion about why stuff happens when you type it. I use Windows Powershell to run programs and type them into notepad. Of course, it may seem little...Can you...

after having posted my thread under this one, read it, I found medicine to become the most dull subject I have ever seen. There is medical history where crazy lecturer will tell you assignments: presentation for 40 minutes on mythology of our countries gods(lol wut!??), after that there is...

Is this situation everywhere in the world? I know that Switzerland is not bad for PhDs because you are at least guaranteed employment when you complete your doctoral degree...One of our hm...famous scientists in biochemistry works here and he said he will never back to USA or our home...