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Comment · 9 years ago
Worst idea ever, stay off the chemical cocktails. It only takes one objective look and a minimum of reflection to see what Big Pharma is up to, and it's not good for anyone. Speed will make you feel better-ish, but it will also turn you into a Zombie-like shell without substance.

I wouldn't recommend drugs at all without knowing more about the person I'm talking to, but I strongly prefer natural alternatives like weed and shrooms to untangle my my brain.

Back to subject. I would say stop worrying so much about what others are doing and trust your own intuition about what to learn and how to do it. Most of software is an ignorant echo chamber, most of the people who make noise couldn't write a creative line of code if their lives depended on it. Do your thing, I'm sure you didn't go through all the effort of coming here to be just another drone.

Comment · 9 years ago
Exactly, this has nothing to do with free software. Most people are so messed up mentally and emotionally these days that they react like injured animals to any kind of outside stimuli. In the end I'm pretty sure they hate themselves more than anything. Expressing anger over the obvious injustice in this shit world is one thing, flaming any one who threatens to rock your boat another.
Comment · 9 years ago
Word. I started coding at 8 and I'm not letting my children anywhere near the stupid gadgets before they're old enough to see through the illusion. Computers are stupid, humans are so much more than 1's and 0's. Teaching kids to code is about profits, period; and no one except our controllers really gives a shit about profits when it comes at the expense of human lives.
Comment · 9 years ago
Go ahead and postpone life then, no one will stop you; life still doesn't give a shit about plans. You should try being close do dying a couple of times, that will align your perspective with reality in no time at all.
Comment · 9 years ago
They would make some stupid shit up I'm sure. Sadly, I didn't have the resources to take them on legally. Never going to Portugal again, that much is certain.
Comment · 9 years ago
And then you get run over by a bus.
Comment · 9 years ago
Why would you work 80 hours per week when a couple of hours a day is enough to get by? Or even encourage that? There's plenty more important things in life than work and funny money, and plenty more important things in work than number of hours spent behind the keyboard.
Comment · 9 years ago
Deep breaths, all is well :)

Modern Java is a pretty decent language. Servlets, spring, JPA; and the rest of the enterprise mumbo-jumbo is mostly over-engineered crap. Same goes for design patterns, they don't even come close to pulling their own weight. I suggest focusing on learning core Java 8, and leaving the enterprise crap to the enterprise. You will learn whatever you have to learn once you're there, filling your brain with bullshit and buzzwords ahead of time isn't going to help. At least that's my take home from 32 years in software, including several years of Java consulting.

Good luck!

Comment · 9 years ago
This bullshit needs to stop. There is plenty of proof out there that microwaves interfere with the human body in a bad way on several levels. But I guess the hundreds of thousands of people who aren't yet completely numb to the effects are just making shit up? As did the Russian scientists who got microwave ovens banned there from the start.

Suggesting that people rub Aluminum and other poisonous chemicals into their skin to protect from life giving and healing sun light is just the icing on the cake. The sun heals cancer, sun-screen causes cancer; there's plenty of statistics out there to prove this and plenty of people who are old enough to remember a time before sun screens when cancer was a non-issue.

Stupid, ignorant, techno-babbling sheeple. I honestly don't know why I bother any more, saving this kind of stupidity from itself borders on interfering with evolution.

Comment · 9 years ago
I'll tell you why; because they're willing to sell their soul, play the game, and not ask too many questions. This system was built by assholes; which is why it rewards assholes, and why it's going down fast.
Comment · 9 years ago
I was responding to this kind of reasoning even being on the radar; the caption was enough to make me feel sick, didn't feel the need to go further. More like a Freudian slip in my ears, referring to specific human beings makes all the difference. Skimming the article proves my point, all about numbers with barely a mention of humans.
Comment · 9 years ago
Fourth story down starts with 'Fuck you and die', pretty much sums it up for me. Facebook is the past, most people just haven't noticed yet.

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