Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by inputcoffee on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:45AM
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You are wise not to. Even with the help its a long way from years of grad school:
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2012/02/the_my...
Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by thanatropism on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @09:58AM
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I know "amateur philosopher" is a trope, but I've read a lot and have tens of notebooks filled with gradually-with-time less-and-less cringeworthy stuff. I can also often point out to flaws of scholarship in scholarly material -- stuff jerry-rigged into an argument in open contradiction to what the original material says in context.
Re:What was it like to be a software engineer at NeXT?
by Waterluvian on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:09AM
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It's like the academic version of being scolded about running into the street. You surely will not make those mistakes again. I remember my dissertation the same way. They weren't abusive, but they were not going to sugar coat when I was simply wrong. Felt pretty intense to be grilled like that but boy did it teach me a lot.
What, I'm currently through this process with my Masters' dissertation. It's not exactly disheartening, but it's uncomfortable.
Bonus, the math-heavy (I'm in computational physics) 70-page documentclass-article thing has a couple of asides that are so, so wrong (1.5 years ago I didn't really understand a lot of things) and it's embarassing to have them pointed out.
But eh, I'm glad I'm going through this process. ---
I'm an amateur student of philosophy and often want to blog about certain ideas I think I'm beginning to have. But I'm not sure enough to put my name on them! I wish I could hire a professional philosopher (many of which will be underemployed anyway) to look over my stuff and tell me when they're embarassingly wrong rather than just out of the box.