Knighty

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by Knighty 14y ago
There's something of a survivor bias to this story. That is to say, there are probably a lot more people who drop out of college and don't amount to very much. Those guys don't tend to shout from the rooftops very much. Which should m
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by Knighty 14y ago
Yes, that makes more sense. In which case it feels like the point of the post is more to do with following your own path before accepting the path that is 'mapped' out? Perhaps you actually say this in the post somewhere, but it I don't re
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by Knighty 14y ago
The author, rightly, makes the point that finance, like most things, is primarily about trust. But that's about the most interesting thing in the article. Capital introductions are hard, and everyone wants to cosy up to someone looking fo
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by Knighty 14y ago
Absolutely, people have been studying motivation theory for decades. Making up 'stories' might help, but without any supporting evidence or research it seems mostly like pseudo-science to call this the 'Psychology of retention'. For instan
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by Knighty 14y ago
Well if demand can sustain the price on a daily basis then good luck to him/her ... and I'm very jealous. Work like this would tend to be ad-hoc, not 9-5, and the work he's received so far (in his example) would seem more like what an archi
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by Knighty 14y ago
>> The first sentence says that you must use object data structures to write OOP. Actually I don't think it does. It says that: "objects are data structures consisting of data fields and methods together with their interactions".