theobold
Re:What cats can teach us about how to live
on Tuesday February 07, 2017 @07:22PM (#13594425)
I volunteer at an animal shelter and sometimes see cats that have neurological problems or have lost a limb or an eye. I always admire how little this seems to matter to them. They don't get depressed or sad, they just carry on playing even if they are so wobbly they can barely stand or so hobbled they have to awkwardly hop everywhere.
Re:A college student’s individual analysis of productivity of four yea...
on Saturday January 28, 2017 @05:36PM (#13509918)
What a shitty system
Ask HN: I don't think I can finish college
I've been in and out of college several times over the past ten years, flunking or dropping out each time. I readily admit this is due to my own character flaws: lack of discipline and motivation, anxiety, depression, isolation. I've had a few successes during this time. I was a software development intern at a geoengineering company, I worked full time at a hospital as a surgical tech, I did...
Re:Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport
on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:36PM (#13181911)
What qualifies as "excessive", though? Excessive anything is harmful almost by definition.
Re:Running as a Thinking Person’s Sport
on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @09:28PM (#13181855)
And yet, Turing was.
Re:Why Don't Computer Scientists Learn Math?
on Friday November 18, 2016 @10:31PM (#12991924)
Maybe the CS people don't know set notation for the same reason that Lamport dismisses Homotopy Type Theory and Galois Connections at the 2:00 minute mark.
Re:"This is Tayo. He's 11 and showed me a game he built called Spike R...
on Saturday September 17, 2016 @12:46PM (#12521214)
Why do people think that because someone is a shareholder/CEO in a company, all their deeds from that point on are purely self-interest?
Depends on the CEO and company. The behavior of a company reflects the behavior of its CEO. Microsoft and Facebook both have a a history of bad behavior.
Re:Why I Majored in Philosophy Despite Everyone Telling Me Not To (2013)
on Thursday September 15, 2016 @12:37AM (#12503448)
Looking at the website in his profile, I'm fairly sure this guy is having a laugh.