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I’ll believe it when I see it take hold. I personally don’t think this will happen in real life. Apps serve over HTTP sounds great when everybody have a gigabit connection with unlimited data. The reality is, we don’t, at least not for many years to come. So, I think this will go the way of many other Google projects. Or at least, it’ll be regulated to ChomeOS, where you’re most likely connected to WiFi or ethernet.

BTW, I thought it’s funny that they call it Dart. Dart on Android = DOA :-D.

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[quote=flu]It isn’t about work hours, it’s about attitude.[/quote]I wasn’t trying to say it’s about work hours. I was trying to say we have limited time on this earth and we all have different priorities. Some are motivated by money, some are motivated by family, while others are motivated by help others, then there are others who are motivated by living life to the fullest, etc.

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When I hear Java, I wasn’t thinking of server side Java. I was thinking of Android.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Ignorance is bliss.

I’m doing drywall today. When this apartment it done it will generate $1500 income. No need to slave away. Dry walling is an art.[/quote]Agree, dry walling is an art. It’s easy to just start doing but it’s very hard to make it blend.

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[quote=flu]I get that.. But I am just trying to understand the logic of not wanting to do the best. Even if you fall short on what you wanted to achieve, it’s still better than the alternative..

You don’t need to be a hardcore academic type. But it helps to be surrounded by motivated people (provided they aren’t doing something illegal)[/quote]Best in what? Doesn’t matter if you’re rich or poor, you still only have 24 hours. We all have to juggle our priorities. I’ve seen people who’s definition of best = working 12-16hrs/day and making millions, while other is working enough to be able to travel the work one week every month or two while living in the city that they love. Person one would be miserable in person two’s shoes and vice versa.
Ultimately, I think you have to ask yourself, what make you happy? As long as what you do make you happy, then that’s all that matter. I don’t know if it helps to be surrounded by motivated people. I think it’s better to be surrounded by happy people who are willing to genuinely help you and not expect anything in return. Again, it all comes down to, what you want in life.

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Yes, it’s very complex. Most of the skills I learned that attributed to my success were from places outside of school. Being hungry and doing my best are the two most important skills IMHO.

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[quote=flu]I don’t think most American kids need to worry about working too hard. That’s part of the problem. Second, there’s nothing cool about throwing away good opportunities. If you want to teach your kids that’s ok, go for it. There’s’ a dozen or so other kids that will gladly take that away who wants it worse than your kid that isn’t motivated..and then you can worry and complain about wealth inequality … Assuming you aren’t wealthy and aren’t leaving a sizable trust fund for your kid…..which since we’re talking about economic “diversity” I would assume that is the case…[/quote]Survival of the fittest. Everyone is free to slack. One less competitor for the rest who want that position.

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D. I wouldnt pay very much premium for a leased solar. I would only pay premium for solar if solar was purchased and not lease.

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I should expect more. I just got contacted my a head hunter for a San Diego position with pay between $80-90/hr.

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[quote=ocrenter]My point is most people will settle into what their genetic predisposition and socioeconomic tendencies guide them toward. It is the default, it is what comes easiest. And while a select few will be able to go against the grain, the vast majority will not. And that vast majority will take perfectly fluid and malleable situations with multiple possibilities and outcomes and turn them into very predictable singular outcome scenario and blame such outcome on fate.[/quote]Here’s the definition of fate: “the development of events beyond a person’s control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power.” So, genetic predisposition and socioeconomic tendencies are all part of fate IMHO. I’m fully aware we do have choices, but looking back, my choices are either to do OK or crash and burn. I was never given a choice to do exceptional. I was never given a choice to play bball like Mike, or play golf like Tiger, or be smart and ingenuitive like Gates, Brin, Jobs, etc. So, I accepted my fate that I will never be rich like them and be able to live their lives. Because of my genetic and personality predisposition (fate or just plain old probability), I’m able to brake free from the heard (sometimes). Maybe that’s what I’m destined to be or how well off I would be.

Here’s an example of in when you’re born will make a HUGE difference: If you’re born around 1980 and study software engineering, when you graduate in 2002 with a BS in Engineering, you’re faced with the .com crash. So if you’re lucky enough to get a job, you’d be paid crap. You’d save for a few years and got married, so decide to buy a place around 2006. You’d be screwed. But if you actively go against the heard, which is probabilistic-ally low, then you’d be a little better off, because then you can buy in 2008-2011 for a pretty big discount. However, lets take that exact same scenario, but lets say you’re born 6 years earlier in 1974. You’d be graduating with a BS in Engineering in 1996. Lets say you’re just as lucky in landing a job and your company when IPO. You also found a wife and decide to buy a house 4 years after you graduated. Since you have $1-2M due to stock options, you’re able to either buy a huge house in very nice area or be able to buy a nice primary and many rentals. If you just follow the heard and keep on working, you’d still be very well off. If you go against the heard like your personality dictate, you’d sell all your rentals and primary in 2005-2006. Rent and buy back in 2008-2011. You see how being born 6 years apart can yield a drastically different financial outcome. This is assuming you’re keeping all variables the same.

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[quote=ocrenter]That is why so many people use “fate” and “god’s plans” to excuse themselves from having to pay attention and be aware and make the necessary modifications.[/quote]A lot of time, it is fate. There are many things in life that you can’t change even if you wanted to. Cancer, marrying the wrong/right person, genetic diseases, born with/without birth defects, being hit by a drunk driver, being born with high/low IQ, being born in a very rich/poor family, being born in the wrong/right country at the wrong/right time (i.e. being born in Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge massacre and having 90% of your family executed and you survive because you just happen to be be out of town), etc. I think “fate” is “god’s plans” are way for people to explain/cope/make sense of/with things that are out of their control. I’m pretty sure if you’re born during the great depression era in the US or during the hyper inflation era in Germany, there’s really not much you can do but make lemonade out of lemons or suicide.

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[quote=ocrenter][quote=AN][quote=njtosd]But we have been very lucky – our life events (birth of children, job changes) have coincided very well with the market.[/quote]I believe this is the most important factor of all. If your life events coincides with market cycle, then success tend to come much easier than if your life event doesn’t coincide with the market cycle.[/quote]

Well… As we can all atest to, one can manipulate life events to coincide with market cycle…[/quote]
Yes, it’s possible and I’ve done it. But it requires you to be aware of such cycle and modify your life events. Most people are not aware of such cycle and/or have no desire to learn about such cycle. For those majority, when you’re born and when your life event make a huge difference.

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My experience with dropping classes at UC was the opposite as you joec. It was super easy to drop classes. It wasn’t too difficult adding them either.

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[quote=spdrun]Water that warm can be dangerous unless you add a lot of chlorine. If you want to be terrified, read about naegleria fowleri — it’s an ameoba that lives in warm, stagnant water and causes an incurable meningitis.[/quote]That can be solved with a salt water system and a good filtration system. Your pool shouldn’t be sitting stagnant.

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[quote=njtosd]But we have been very lucky – our life events (birth of children, job changes) have coincided very well with the market.[/quote]I believe this is the most important factor of all. If your life events coincides with market cycle, then success tend to come much easier than if your life event doesn’t coincide with the market cycle.

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