Childhood dreams

[Andr3w]

Then again, there's nothing wrong with being a chef who programs as a hobby, right?

Hehe. "C++ for Dummies", 4th edition, page 71: "So I said, 'Waiter! Waiter! There's a bug in my soup!' and he says, 'Sorry, sir, the chef used to program computers'"

[Lithorien]

As long as that's where you want to be, then yes, being a chef is awesome.

Not particularly, but it's something I'm (at least) good at.

I'd honestly love to be able to afford to go to a good college and graduate school and get a Master's degree in Comp. Sci with an emphasis in operating system / general security, but I'm a good $80,000-$120,000 short of that! Still, I think I have a few half-baked ideas that I could explore and maybe one of them would be useful someday...

At least with cooking, you can work your way up from the bottom. And it's a job where I use my hands and move around a lot, so I feel accomplished at the end of the day. And I make people smile - genuinely - which I love more than basically anything else.

I guess 'confused' describes where I am now.

[Thomas]

Hi,

At least with cooking, you can work your way up from the bottom. And it's a job where I use my hands and move around a lot, so I feel accomplished at the end of the day. And I make people smile - genuinely - which I love more than basically anything else.

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Mate, that's all that matters.I gave up a high paying job (yet frustrating) to do what I love to do .Now I analyze os crash dumps/bugs day long ! fixed bugs == satisfied customers .

I'd honestly love to be able to afford to go to a good college and graduate school and get a Master's degree in Comp. Sci with an emphasis in operating system / general security, but I'm a good $80,000-$120,000 short of that!

Do no give the heck about degree, you can learn lots of stuff online.Just believe in yourself . But then we all are human beings, no one is perfect, we have our weaknesses though .

--Thomas

[DavidBG]

Briefly, it's about how to achieve your childhood dreams, and how to help others achieve theirs. So I ask the question, what are your childhood dreams, and have you achieved them?

• I want to be a pilot. I haven't done this yet, but it's only a matter of a lot of money before I do.

Yeah, me too! I've always wanted to fly, and every day I get closer.

I'd also like to know more than one language.

David

[Code0x58]

1. Be a potter - not sure why I wanted this as a child, this one faded away and was replaced with the desire to be a programmer but I have made a couple of clay items since if that counts.
2. Live in an underground bunker, with a lab - I guess this might have had something to do with games Metal Gear Solid & Half-Life for the bunker part and Resident Evil for the lab part but also I've always loved experimenting and just about all sciences, I suppose the bunker idea could be the ultimate boy's den? Can't say I've done this yet so it will probably come after fulfilling iv.
3. Live in Canada or Alaska - Metal Gear Solid might have had some influence on this,I haven't done this yet but it probably wouldn't coincide with ii and I don't think I'd want to live in the middle of the Canadian or Alaska wilderness for more than a couple of years.
4. Be ludicrously rich - a fairly straight forward one, still haven't surpassed the financial status of a bum yet but hopefully v will help out on this one!
5. Be a programmer - my parents said there was money to be made as a programmer which seemed appealing to me as programmers can make games, and I certainly like those! This is the only one I can fairly confidently say I am by the fact that I program

On the optimistic and bright side I still have about 3x my lifetime over again to achieve these as long as I am careful crossing the road and jumping out of planes

p.s. it's not really directly from my childhood but I'd really like to fly helicopters but don't have much interest in normal plane flight.

[DavidBG]

p.s. it's not really directly from my childhood but I'd really like to fly helicopters but don't have much interest in normal plane flight.

I'd like that too, but I can't do both, too much money. Specifically, I've always wanted to land a jet on a carrier. But this can only be done if one joins the Navy. Oh well.

[bobman801]

...as the only constant in life is change. ...

... and the speed of light.

[Solar]

...as the only constant in life is change. ...

... and the speed of light.

...in vacuum.

[Solar]

Nononono... the speed of light is constant. It's the space-time that's distorted by gravity, not the speed of light.

[Owen]

Nononono... the speed of light is constant. It's the space-time that's distorted by gravity, not the speed of light.

I'd disagree. You cannot know that for sure.

Solar is pretty much saying what the laws of Physics say

In fact, I'd say that c is the most constant of all the physical constants. Many of the initially non-intuitive theorems and laws come from the fact that the universe will bend over backwards to prevent c from changing.

[Candy]

.. the universe will bend over backwards to prevent c from changing.

If it'll bend over backwards does that mean that we can travel through time if we find a way to make it possible iff c is constant?

[Owen]

.. the universe will bend over backwards to prevent c from changing.

If it'll bend over backwards does that mean that we can travel through time if we find a way to make it possible iff c is constant?

Relativity already tells you what you need to do to travel through time/travel at superluminal speeds (They're one and the same): Possess negative energy.

Yeah, good luck with that one

[Candy]

Relativity already tells you what you need to do to travel through time/travel at superluminal speeds (They're one and the same): Possess negative energy.

If only we could find the overflows in the universe

[NickJohnson]

Relativity already tells you what you need to do to travel through time/travel at superluminal speeds (They're one and the same): Possess negative energy.

If only we could find the overflows in the universe

Let x = ...999999
9x = ...999990 = x-9
10x = -9
x = -1

(of course, this only really works mod 10^n as n approaches infinity...)

[Jezze]

Shouldn't that be:

x = 0.999... gives
10x = 9.999...
10x - x = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9 gives
9x = 9 gives
x = 1

so 0.999... is the same as 1