solipsism · HackerTrans

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You'd think after so many decades he'd have made some progress on the problem himself.

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Never read the book, but this is the well-published psychological factor known as locus of control. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control

You should probably try to give credit for the idea where credit is due.

By the way, this is an important part of the growth of junior engineers into senior engineers. I've noticed junior engineers tend to identify obstacles as blockers. When asked about progress or estimates, they just talk about the blockers. Completely out of their control. Senior engineers find workarounds, solutions, alternatives.

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"Seventy" indeed was touching and sad. Made all the more sad by the delusional statements of grandeur.

It must be truly sad to think you're a genius who was never appreciated. I say that without any sarcasm.

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This guy seems to try to bluntly tell it like it is. He's completely wrong, but hopefully he can appreciate the same sort of blunt feedback from others.

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Would you say the contents of this article indicate that the author is "mathematically inclined", in any significant way (compared to, for example, the early systems theorists you refer to)?

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Honestly, I think the problem often isn't "I don't know what to program" but instead "None of my ideas are things I actually can, or want to, program".

I have lots of big ideas. Big applications, distributed systems, etc. My experience tells me they would take months or years of dedicated work, even working with others. I already have a job.

I have lots of small ideas. I don't want to spend time on most of them because they're not particularly interesting to me. I don't want to write a TODO application that's perfectly suited to me, even though I want such a thing. I don't want to futz around with the UI and write all the mundane utility functions. There's no interest there for me.

So there's just nothing I'm particularly passionate about enough to motivate me to spend my time on it. And that's no big deal, at work the I have the luxury of other people thinking up the big problems and providing me with countless amazingly intelligent peers with whom to create things. And at home I have other hobbies.

Edit: So, I guess to crystallize some advice from that, at least for people who are similar to me: try to get a job that satisfies your "I want to code amazing things" itch, and then enjoy everything else the world has to offer outside of work.

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Hm.. I think the author is confusing "I don't have any good ideas" with "I don't know how to begin writing/structuring an application." He/she compares "I don't know what to program" with "I don't know how to write a song". But "I don't know how to write a song" is not the same as "I don't know what to write a song about". Lots of people have one problem but not the other.

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Rational.. irrational.. I hope you can see that it's a pointless argument. The word "rational" is highly subjective so we shouldn't pretend there's some objective measure of rationality.

* Kill an innocent civilian * Have or perform an abortion * Eat meat * Fight in a war * Drop an atomic bomb on a city * Commit suicide

That's all shit that some people call rational and others call irrational. The truth is that "rational" is a word we choose because it sounds objective and authoritative, but it really means: "something that makes sense to me"

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