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Re:Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grad... by gradstudent on Friday May 10, 2013 @08:06AM (#5685728)
You seem to have fallen into undertaking some productive activities by sheer dumb luck. Congratulations. You are in a minority. I knew lots of pot-heads at school. All of them had lasseiz-faire parents and none of them amounted to much.

EDIT: To clarify, I do not understand your argument at all. In my experience, excellence and ambition are traits that need to be cultivated. Sure, you can find them in-the-wild, but this is not a reliable approach.

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Re:Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grad... by shadowuser on Friday May 10, 2013 @09:04AM (#5685925)
Dumb luck? I put a hell of a lot of effort into learning my craft. The point I'm trying to make is that you don't need a dictator standing over you to learn something.
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Re:Children of parents classified as “tiger” have worse grad... by gradstudent on Friday May 10, 2013 @12:32PM (#5687133)
By your own admission you were totally aimless. I understood from your post that nobody said to you "hey, this is an interesting and worthwhile thing to pursue". The fact that you were attracted to programming and not some useless activity (like mastering sports) seems to me the result of pure dumb luck.
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