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<p>
Given how I recall my academic studies as being frustrating, vexing and often
Given how I recall my academic studies as being frustrating, vexing, and often
not interesting, I am not planning on working on getting another academic
degree (whether a B.Sc, an M.A/M.Sc, a Ph.D or similar) soon. However, I cannot
promise that I won't change my mind about that in the future and enrol again.
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post</a> and <a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20160603203922/http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?joel.3.197867.7">some
replies I received</a>. I won't list my perceived problems here, just note that
employers care about several aspects of an employee's suitability beside raw competency and
knowledge, and often I feel they are right.
many employers care about several aspects of an employee's suitability beside
raw competency and knowledge, and I feel they are often right.
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<p>
Some letters begin with “Shlomi,” in a separate paragraph. I personally
feel that the person is always trying to preach to me in this case, but
feel that the person is trying to preach to me in this case, but
I was told it is not considered bad form in English-speaking countries,
so it may just be a cultural gap.
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<p>
If you do want to send me a private E-mail to a mailing list post, please
explicitly say that the E-mail is sent in private, and detail the reason for
it, and whether or not I can reply in public.
explicitly note that the E-mail was intentionally sent in private, and detail
the reason for it, and whether or not I can reply in public.
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<p>
It is easier for me to paste URLs to online chats for further discussion.
When chatting online, it is easier for me to paste URLs for further discussion.
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First of all, in this day and age, it’s unlikely that the spammers <b>will
not find</b> my email address. That’s because they also install a lot of
malware on vulnerable computers to harvest email addresses from. Since I can’t
refrain from sending email to Windows users, and would rather not, I can never
prevent spam entirely.
avoid sending email to users of Microsoft Windows , and would rather not, I can
never prevent spam entirely.
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Most importantly - remember that improving your language is hard work, but
it's also fun, because hard work is often fun and rewarding and makes you
happy. The opposite of fun and pleasure in general is not necessarily work. If
people did not enjoy hard work for pleasure, then large scale operating
people did not enjoy hard work for pleasure, then large-scale operating
systems that are completely free-and-open-source-software such as GNU/Linux or
the *BSDs could not happen.
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Also see <a href="[% base_path %]humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=larry-wall-all-truth-is-gods-truh">this quote by Larry Wall</a> about
<q>All Truth is God's Truth</q>.
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<p>
I am <b>anti-Fatalistic</b> because I believe that humans’ survival mechanism
- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason">reason</a> - operates
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vs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Harris">Sam Harris</a>
(who reportedly used to advocate Fatalism).
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<p>
A conversation I took part in the evening during a hiking trip, went
something like that:
A conversation in which I took part during the evening during a hiking trip,
went something like that:
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ones who are not as powerful as them, are those who think someone
else is). Furthermore, I recommend thinking that you can "save the
world" or at least change or improve it. Moreover, you can enjoy the
world, and improve yourself and everyone else at the same time.
world, and improve yourself and everyone else - all at the same time.
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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Park"><i>South Park</i></a> (which I
admit I have not watched substantially) which was known for ridiculing various
religions. That excerpt noted that they thought that despite all that, they found atheism
the funniest religion, because the contemporary astronomical/astrophysical
to be the funniest religion, because the contemporary astronomical/astrophysical
model expects time to run out and end. This proved as one of the catalysts from
my transition from a dogmatic atheist, to an <a href="#religious_belief">open-minded
and pluralistic agnostic</a>.
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