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I'm afraid Kurt Gödel did not receive this note.

Indeed. I was thinking that the question is in some ways like asking "How can I understand the chemical symbols used in these equations". One could perhaps memorise that 'Na' is Sodium and H is Hydrogen but without knowing what they are and how they behave etc. an equation in isolation is meaningless and won't help to understand the reaction.

I think the cost of complying with the law is just cost of conducting a business lawfully. So, those parts should not be spoken of as if they were part of the damages.

I know their pay isn't good but it is calculated based on where one lives and is similar to what the parent-post mentioned.

Have you looked at Gitlab's salary calculator?

I'm not even sure if C is.

I take it you haven't spent considerable time in Italy?

If you are referring to the return when he was facing championship point, then that is indeed noteworthy. The spirit he displayed there made me a fan of his and to this day, I admire the cool-headedness and the resilience he displays.

It shouldn't be so hard to grant that one could harbour doubts about one's ability yet one could go ahead and make an attempt to do something. Also, I'd not read it as "inability" from the wording chosen.

It helps to get at least a basic level of understanding of some core computer science/engineering subjects:

- Algorithms and Data Structures

- Operating Systems

There are more but it helps to at least learn the fundamentals of these two. If you feel up to it, there are these too:

- Computer Organisation

- Compilers

There are more which you could look at depending on your interests: Computer Networks, Computer Graphics, Databases, Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, Theory of Computation, Distributed Systems

Many of these can be learnt from a good online course or a good textbook

Besides these, I found it very helpful to try and contributed to big free software projects. The standards are high and you'll get a lot of feedback on your patches. If you pick a project like something by Mozilla, you'll also have bugs/tasks specifically earmarked for people who are new contributors.

I forgot to add: Reading good code really helps. However, for this, I found that the most effective way was to try and fix a bug or add a feature which leads again to my suggestion above. This way, you have a 'purpose' with which you read code and it helps navigate a large codebase.

Good luck!

If you have access to a good library, it's a good place to try various types of books to see what you like. Ultimately, what you will be reading a few years later is hard to predict from what you start reading now. However, in the beginning, finding something that "hooks" you is the best bet because it gives you the experience of being absorbed in a book. These are the books with which I have introduced some people to the world of books:

- The Lord of The Rings

- The Hobbit

- Dracula

- The Little Prince

- Animal Farm

- Asterix and Obelix comicbooks

- Siddhartha

For the next time, I'm going to try "Necronmicon" (H. P. Lovecraft!)

(EDIT: Formatting and added "Siddhartha")

Laptops have terrible ergonomics. If you want to have the (small) screen at eye level, then the keyboard is not at a good height. If the keyboard is at the right height, then you have to look downwards to look at the screen.

At work, I have a laptop which is attached to a docking station which has a proper keybaord and two monitors connected to it. I almost never take it out of the docking station. I asked for a desktop but the official policy is to only hand people laptops.

At an abstract level, "Animal Farm" is not far from such a theme.

In some places, you can buy Google Play Store credit in shops. Perhaps you could pay with cash too (my preference). I suppose that could help if such an option exists around where you live.

If it in any way matters, I'd be very glad to read some insights on why some people seem so impossibly warm (assuming you don't mean "body temperature"). My fondest memories of meeting people for the first time is always meeting people who exude genuine warmth and I'd really like to be like them some day.

I do know that posts solely for humour are not really well accepted here but I have to admit that the title really begs to bring up a reference to "Dwarf Bread" from Discworld.

http://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Dwarf_Bread

The best boss I had is many times better than anyone else with whom I worked before or after working for him. He is someone who is well known in the graphics and chip design industry but I prefer not to name him solely to keep my semi-anonymity.

I'll list a few of the things he did that really kept me (and everyone else in his team(s)) driven. I was about to say 'motivated' but it doesn't seem to express the intensity as well as 'driven' does.

Here are some of them:

- Was involved in hiring for his team and trusted whom he hired

- He set up 'connections' in such a way that the new folks were always being mentored by people of varying levels of tenure and seniority. This wasn't a direct "so and so will mentor you". It was more that he set up the dependencies and interactions in ways that there was a gradient on which you could keep going to gain further and further expertise from people.

- Was politically adept. His teams never encountered any rubbish that was irrelevant or would slow them down. He would say "if that doesn't work, I know which buttons to press" and he'd make things happen.

- Where I work now, I have to justify before _and_ after going to a tech conference. When I was working with him, he was like "there is this conference. XYZ is visiting there and I need your_teammate and you to help him with some logistics - just take the hardware from your team. I realised after a long time that this was his way of connecting us to XYZ (who's a veteran and highly respected person in the industry) and it was a golden opportunity. He strongly believed in having people who work in different countries and offices getting to meet now and then and would find excuses to make them happen.

- If we messed up, we'd go to him and say "We messed up! This is what happened..." and he'd just say that it wasn't something to worry about and would instead ask about things that were more 'big picture' and 'long term'. This only made us even more resolved never to sully his teams' reputation.

- I once asked for access to the codebase of a project I was interested in to see if I could port it to another OS. Instead of doing that, he instead connected me to the team who worked on that project and asked them to see if I could help them. Again, he was connecting people and giving me much more than I had asked for.

- He was a visionary and would always speak about his vision in a very matter of fact manner instead of making it a grand thing. So, it made it easier to believe in it and think about it.

- He always maintained that he didn't believe in managers who "just manage" - i.e someone without a sound technical understanding of what we were working on, could never be a manager in one of his teams.

There are many more things and for the moment I'll end the list there.

I realise now that no amount of 'process' can generate this kind of drive in people. I hope that some day I can grow up to be 1% as good as he is.

People follow leaders who free them from chains - they don't thrive in systems which artificially-constrain them.

Ultimately, people will behave as per their incentives. As long as the push back and the negative publicity from it threatens a greater loss than the profits from thing they were about to do, they'll back off. Otherwise, I don't think they'll mind letting go of a few people (maybe even to make examples of them) and push ahead.

While this is possibly true, I think we should not discount the fact that a lot of prescribed reading (in schools) is not age appropriate literature. If I had read 1984 or 'Lord of the Flies' during my schooldays I would not have been able to appreciate it. I read a lot in that period and I loved to read (and still do) but I seldom liked reading what was prescribed as part of the curriculum - with the sole exception of 'Robin Hood'. It was an 'abridged' version and I read it so many times because I was thoroughly entertained by the story.

Depending on where you are, a "regular" black coffee could also be an espresso. A drink which was made by adding water to it and removing the crema (the horror!) from it is the standard in some places. So, it's best to disambiguate it and I suppose that's why they force you to do that. To be honest, I never go to starbucks. So, I don't know if that is the case - I'm speculating from no real data.

Slightly off-topic but if the "history of science" is a subject that interests, I can recommend "The Cambridge Illustrated History of Science". It's an expensive book but I was able to borrow a copy from a library near where I live and I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.

I used to read in bed every night. Sometimes it was technical material and at other times, it was entertaining fiction. It helped me in many ways - it made it so that I had an activity that helped me relax before I put the book aside and slept. It also helped me make big leaps in my understanding of certain technical topics. I found that (at least in my case) reading before bed led to high retention.

Also, doing it this way, it was an easy ritual -> brush teeth, shower, lie in bed and read, feel tired and can't focus anymore, set book aside, turn off bedside lamp and close your eyes and fall asleep quickly. This adds up to a lot of reading over the months and years.

Dr. Stroustrup took a lot of pain to ensure the language was useful and did not break backward compatibility. He also always maintained that if you don't use a feature you shouldn't pay for it (in terms of performance). Eventually, it became even more popular and there is now a whole organisation behind the international standards for the language. The book "The Design and Evolution of C++" helps one understand why some things are the way they are and sometimes it helps understand why some things exist in the language in the first place.

The language takes a lot of flak but I think it is quite good given the constraints it has and the modern version is an amazing leap forward in ease of use as well.

Absence of evidence only means that there is not sufficient evidence to pronounce the defendant guilty. It is not evidence of innocence. They are not the same.

I spent a long time with C++ and my learning was primarily through books. However, I also think that not everyone learns best by reading. Some learn better by listening, some by doing and some by observing others do something. For someone of such disposition, it might be more beneficial to follow a MOOC than to solely study the subject from a book.

In fact they have been used to adulterate stocks of black pepper since a long time.

It's a sad state of affairs if someone making a reasonable point which is something like this: "Accusations have such a chance of doing irreversible damage to a person's reputation and/or life that they (accused) should have a fair chance to explain their side of the story. And we have systems for this - the Judiciary"

has to pepper it with such a generous dose of disclaimers about not taking sides with the accused.

I do hope that over time people are able to have a rational discussion on such subjects without needing these disclaimers for fear of damage to their own reputations.

I did not make a judgment on any of those options. I was just saying that if one were in such a system and had that kind of an outcome, one must question one's choices.

I'll clarify again that I've not stated which side of the fence I'm on when it comes to who should go to prison and what prison's purpose is. I was just saying that as a rational being, if you end up in prison and do _not_ want to be in prison after you are out, you should do something about it and not expect that doing the same thing will not have the same result again.

As for the hypothetical truck driver, I was trying to say that, in such a situation, saying "I have right of way" and just going ahead is not going to save you from the accident. Though, at that point, it is unfair to you, it is still the safer option to let the truck pass. How much effort one is willing to put into doing something about the errant truck driver depends on the individual who's experiencing this and his/her circumstances.

Often, it's hard to recall exactly how you landed and rolled etc. in an accident because it happens so fast. So, if you've had a fall, just replace the helmet. You may think it never hit the ground but it's not worth the risk it entails.

If you ended up in prison from your own mistakes (whether it was breaking the law, appearing to break the law, getting caught or something else entirely), it does warrant thinking about whether the choices you made are suitable for where you want to go in life. Of course if you were partaking in civil disobedience, it's another matter and my comment here assumes we are _not_ talking about civil disobedience.

This has nothing to do with whether the law is good/fair etc.

Even if you the have right of way at an intersection, wouldn't you wait for the truck to pass if you see that it has no intention (and/or chance) of stopping to let you pass?