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Re: What a Beautiful World
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2018, 06:52:03 am »
People aren't chocolates. Do you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard coated bastards with bastard filling.
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Re: What a Beautiful World
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2019, 05:58:53 am »

"And the strict master Death bids them dance."

Holden

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Re: What a Beautiful World
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2019, 01:46:46 pm »
Good one,Mr.Silenus :)
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Re: What a Beautiful World
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2019, 01:40:28 pm »
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Re: What a Beautiful World
« Reply #5 on: October 22, 2019, 10:57:55 am »
"Trustworthyness requires consistancy, and you have elected to pick and choose when you are trustworthy.  You should feel very badly about yourself.  Feel free to cry."

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I feel this when when studying the Stroustrup 2014 text, chapter 20 currently.  Stroustrup is my Immanula Kant, but I am no Schopenhauer to this Kant, no ... I am the outcast maintenance man thrown overboard 30 years ago in the George Carlin camp of disposable comedic philosphers, a far cry from any kind of disciple of such a Techgnostic Guru as this living legend; but I also understand that Herr Stroustrup might not be very fond of me at all, unless he witnessed the satisfaction I experience in coming to terms with the work Alex Stepanoff put into the generic-programming-supporting STL.

I think Holden has some sense of the gravity of my "outsider status" - the technical disciplines are filled with arrogant, egotistical, emotionally immature types who may fly into a psychotic rage over the confusions going around and around in their brains, when they have forgotten that we cavemen on wheels are not evolving quite as fast as the hardware and software we have been studying over a lifetime.    There are more outsiders than insiders, but I suspect some of the more conscientious outsiders may experience deeper satisfaction than those at the bleeding edge deciding what the standards should be.   

Then there are those who write the compilers.  Yes, I accept I am an outsider, a lifelong learner, an exotic and pathic organism dependent upon the war machine economy for sustenance.   

Give us this day our daily bread, and please - a little depth in understanding, a little satisfaction for the small bit we have been able to digest.   It is very displeasing to me that we exist in a world where so many can be so educated only to feel like failures each day for their inability to provide themselves with shelter/education.

This world is truly a horror, and I feel almost ashamed that I have had the opportunity to spend so many days, months, years studying ... an educated corpse?   No ... there has to be a sense of humor in here somewhere!

Is the knowledge not sufficient in itself to be worthy of consideration?   Must one aspire to professionalism to take a deep interest in a subject?

As you imply, Senor Raul, we are exploited like crabs in a bucket, pressured to conform our tastes to the masses less risk starvation.
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Re: What a Beautiful World
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2019, 11:44:26 am »
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