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Quite irrelevant at the Spanish level? I don't agree. He is involved in the dirtiest affairs of the Spanish society, from the political parties to the monarchy, including the police force...
But, we agree on that, absolutely irrelevant for HN.
Spanish native here: the Spanish that speaks in this video is like an American Spanish with and scent of Italian accent :-) But a very fluent one.
Yes, you can. Just go for it!
I got it when I was 30 years old and you know what? I use the programming skills I have now plus the knowledge aquired in my previous job. The result is a programmer who also is a specialist in X or a X specialist who can develop software in this field.
I met a Belgian who spoke 6 or 7 languages fluently (as many Belgians apparently do)
I've been many times to Belgium and never knew anyone talking more than 4 languages. Of course that's not a rule, but "just" French, Dutch and German (residual) are official languages. In Wallonia (French-speaking regions), many people don't speak Dutch and there are a lot of people who just talk _some_ English (not to mention the difficulty to pronounce some sound).
My 2 cents: I just spend 7 hours working each day (5 off 7). The remaining time I just live! Having fun with my 2 kids: reading, playing, practising martial arts. To sum up: enjoying the life, it's too wonderful to spend it working :-)
I think Dr. Norvig defends the idea of learning by making a effort and devoting a lot of time against the infra-culture of "learning XYZ in 21 hours" and so on :-)
In Spain you cannot fire a pregnant woman. It could be even illegal asking for it in a job interview... Recent laws allow the father taking the 50% of vacation for child care. In candidates lists -algo by law- there must be 50/50 men/women. So, definitely, Hungary is not representative from European Union.
I would recommend you OOSC (Object oriented software construction) by Bertrand Meyer. A mammouth book. Its length, which could be a hindrance, is its best point: you'll have plenty of explanations for every concept.
Learn to cook, everybodys advices me about cooking ;)
Posted by
flojito on Sunday August 29, 2010 @05:15PM
from the self-post dept.
Hi everyone,
I'm just preparing to have a gap year (beginning in 2 months) and I'm collecting ideas (like studying Russian/Japanese, martial arts...)As I spent 10 hours per day developing software, I hope not to get "learn putHereYourFavouriteLanguage" or "get certificate in x/y/z" ;)Thanks in advance.
And what about those using VBA and PL/SQL?
Just one disagreement: 5 hours fighting against code can be sometimes better than getting it solved in 2 minutes ;)