pretoriusB

>The Bible is not remotely as well written as the Iliad, nor is it comparable as a work of philosophy to Plato.

Tens of Thousands of top notch literary critics, philosophers and intellectuals beg to differ...

>So I still have to wake, look at the clock, make a decision about whether it's time to get up, then take action based on that.

Yes, no magic unicorns and fairies spreading pixie dust to wake you up at just the right moment, I'm afraid.

The indecipherable to you message of the story is: don't go back to sleep if you happen to wake up shortly before the alarm clock. Just wake up.

Now, if you woke yourself up at 3:00, as you ask in your previous comment, that doesn't fall on the "shortly" period before a 6:30 way, so by all means go back to sleep. I mean, Oh, those hard decisions...

>But it's not just this one thing. I see so many people intent on sharing their personal revelations that it's now impossible to find genuine insights that are more widely applicable than that one person's experience. This is the age of crowd-sourced "wisdom", where everyone thinks their own discoveries will apply universally. Anecdote over data, experience over research.

I think that what you write above ONLY APPLIES TO YOU. Perhaps you should do some more research into the matter, instead of shoving your personal anecdotes on to us.

The domain knowledge when it comes to implementing algorithms is algorithms themselves...

>Wouldn't it be more important to have people to come up with brilliant solutions on problems they are working on, rather than hard problems in general that have already been solved?

Most of the times the guys that can come with "brilliant solutions" on new problems are those that know the solved problems inside and out.

The other guys just keep reinventing the wheel (only worse).

>but what I do know is how to find out the answer given a computer and an internet connection.

Then you are not good enough for them. They want someone that breaths and knows these things inside out and backwards.

Any half-competent dabbler can look them up and implement them. Creating novel solutions takes more deep understanding of them than that.

>What about if I wake at 05:00? Or 04:30? Or 02:00?

Then go back to sleep, dummy. Does he have to spell it out for you?

>Where is the wisdom that solves all my problems, enabling me not to have to make any decisions?

That's called being dead. Until then try to take advice for what it is: a recipe that you can try and adjust to taste.

Road rage? People going on rampage with guns and killing tens of innocents? Fatso kids screaming in restaurants and behaving badly in public? The most BS self-entitled complaints in restaurant/hotel/etc reviews always written by Americans? People posting pictures of their cats? Do any of these things ring a bell?

Ever tried looking around you? Do you need a citation that air is important for breathing?

I want the 30" of my life lost for reading your comment back.