Re:Programming Is Not for Everybody
by prof_hobart on Monday March 04, 2013 @04:54AM
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Knowing your age is pretty poor justification for knowing basic maths. How about understanding the true cost of a loan, or how much you should save for your pension, or whether the 3-for-2 offer at your local supermarket is good value?
If you don't know basic maths, you are likely to spend much of your life getting ripped off left, right and centre.
I asked her, what was her age.
" oh sweet child, I have no idea, and it does not bother me, because it is not important, what is important is that I am old.now, and I will die soon, and that before being old, I did good things with ny life. You are young, do your best, strive for it while you can, and when you get old, enjoy what remains of your life. Don't care about your age, or the numbers on it, just live and do it, when the time.comes.to it be over, it will be over, it is useless to predict that."
And then, I was amazed at the wisdom.of a old lady that don't believed in math.