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Reminds me that anecdote, not sure who it was, he was wondering where are the Caesars or the Hitlers of our time, all that brand of ambitious, manipulative and dominant personalities. The answer, he found, was that nowadays those people are absorbed into corporate instead of going into politics.

Well, not your fault, most of the resources out there are just made to make a buck, or a click, it's pretty much hopeless nowadays. What I do usually is I try to find used books, they're cheap and often better. Doesn't work for all subjects obviously.

For C++, I'd download a working draft of the standard, that + examples on stackoverflow will teach you more than a 6 foot stacks of the latest books on the subject.

Yes, half a joke, also a quote from Don Draper in Madmen. Great cynic character :)

Love was invented by advertisers to sell nylons...

Looks like 1917 russian revolution to me... no, thank you.

"Conservatives are anti-science": no downvote. "Liberals are anti-biology": downvote.

HN is funny...

exercise, a lot of walk in parks, daily and also when feeling in "hell" during the day, and also developing a spirituality, very important to find a way to deal with the bigger questions...

Thinkpad E560 owner here, bought it a couple of years ago for less than $500 on newegg, installed ubuntu on it and that's it. Dropped it a few times, and work like 8-10 hours a day on it, never had any issue. Solid.

Pain is also linked to fear, so more mindfulness, less fear and less pain. Some people, while physically training can inflict extreme pains on their bodies, but without any fear whatsoever, so they're ok, even enjoying it for some, "working hard!"

"The game is hard so I cheated!" Do you think it's a good way to start a business relationship?

Religion/spirituality is a great asset, especially as we get older.

Of course, the European political instances don't care at all about the effect of their laws so it's easier...

> 57% say they’re trying to limit social media usage and 58% are trying to limit video games.

I think 98% of US teens are trolling polls...

As you said, the first level is the language syntax, var, control flow etc. Second level, data structures, list and list comprehension, dictionaries etc. Third level, recursion and algorithms, or how to solve problems in python, what you'll often see it referred as "the pythonic way".

Don't be too academic with these that it becomes boring, but just enough that you start feeling comfortable building some small console apps, that can read and write files, crawl some pages from the web, that kind of thing.

Once you're good with that, you can start with frameworks. The danger you want to avoid is to start too soon, and have a hard time separating the complexities of the language with the ones from the framework.