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I was expecting the attribution to be to Mark Twain. I wonder if their style seems similar on account of being old, or if there's more to it.
I think it means you're underread within that period, for what it's worth.
The voice in that quote differs from Twain's and sounds neither like a journalist, nor like a river-side-raised gentleman of the time, nor like a Nineteenth Century rural/cosmopolitan fusion written to gently mock both.
If those four people who downvoted this would enlighten me as to why this is a bad quote, that would be much appreciated.
It could be more than four. Someone might have upvoted you.
My first reaction was pretty much identicle, right now you can do well at almost anything purely based on conscientiousness, including video games, work, school, and social interaction. I don't know of any good way to measure general talent, but when I learn most things I tend to be quite bad at them until I enter tsukoku naritai mode. Perhaps this should influence my career decision somewhat, its hard to tell if talent or effort is more crucial for programming.
Despite what they are taught likely to be about themselves, what they might think of themselves, and what western culture expects of them, programmers are more creative artists than analytic engineers.
The difference is most tangible from the management perspective since motivating programmers is less like motivating chemical, mechanical, or any other sort of engineer and more like motivating commercial artists with less pretense, who were never led to believe they were meant for something greater. Dissatisfaction from programmers grows in much the same way it grows in commercial artists as well, though they programmer is less likely to specifically identify his or her complaint and the artist is more likely to complain about having sold his or her soul.
Common responses to criticism of work among programmers align more with those among artists than those among engineers. Again, I learned this from a managerial perspective.
The most important advice that may be given to starting artists (excluding all the low-hanging fruit advice that is best for everyone in general, of course) isn't about discovering your own inner talent or anything similar, instead it is about discipline: "Ideas are not swords you can brandish about in triumph. What matters most is the Sit Down, Shut Up And Get It Done. Only there will you find the true steel for your craft. Only there, will you know if you are worth the words out of your mouth."
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For American males who want a simple, straightforward soap without accidentally signally sub-standard masculinity, Irish Spring bar soap cleans, leaves skin feeling as though cleaning was done, has a distinct odor of cleanliness, and does not signal femininity.
It is a recognizable brand, so using it does not signal potentially unmasculine attention to cleaning products.
It does not soften skin particularly, and intentionally softening ones skin may be assumed to signal femininity.
It is not floral or 'fruity' in odor.
Irish Spring: the safe soap choice for men who haven't budgeted one more reason to put their manliness in question!
I would like textual feedback to match the downvotes allotted this entirely sincere and well-caveated endorsement.
The human ear has not previously been under selection pressure to accommodate extended periods of stoppage. Plugging up or cover ears for significant fractions of the day on a regular basis is out-of-spec use of the human body and may have consequences including infections and skin irritation.
The human ear has also not previously been under selection pressure to accommodate constant noise pollution. Not plugging up or covering the ears (or abandoning civilisation) is also out-of-spec use of the human body and has consequences including stress and damaged hearing.
(Apply evolutionary reasoning consistently!)
On the contrary, whichever wildernesses most shaped our hearing were not silent places. The places people lived, that we know of, in the ice ages were quite wet. Rivers and even streams are constant sources of noise.
There are issues of levels and likely specific frequencies, but complete silence puts the stoppered ear further from the conditions in which it formed as well.
To disclose, I have worked in call centers for a cumulative decade and found that ear infections were more likely if I did not switch which ear was covered at least every week, when ear-covering headsets were the only option. I expect that stopping up ears overnight will have a similar consequence for at least a portion of the population. And so I advise caution.
I do not find fault in that action.
Psst. Your androcentricity is showing.
The reference includes both sexes and if anything placing the first emphasis on "having a penis" when describing "f*able" is a perspective biased towards people who would like to have sex with males---a primarily female attitude with homosexual (or bisexual) males as a secondary group. The "androcentric" answer would have only mentioned (or at least opened with) the things that the "andro" kind of person would have sex with.
You're missing the point but you're still kind of right. So I fixed it.
The fault for the point missed likely lies on the absent clarity I sacrificed for brevity.
In response to
Less Wrong Product & Service Recommendations
For American males who want a simple, straightforward soap without accidentally signally sub-standard masculinity, Irish Spring bar soap cleans, leaves skin feeling as though cleaning was done, has a distinct odor of cleanliness, and does not signal femininity.
It is a recognizable brand, so using it does not signal potentially unmasculine attention to cleaning products.
It does not soften skin particularly, and intentionally softening ones skin may be assumed to signal femininity.
It is not floral or 'fruity' in odor.
Irish Spring: the safe soap choice for men who haven't budgeted one more reason to put their manliness in question!
Disagree entirely. If I say something is "unforgivable", I mean it cannot be forgiven, not merely that forgiveness would be difficult.
What about “f***able”? Does it mean ‘anybody with a functional penis and/or any orifice able to be penetrated by one’? :-)
What about “f*able”? Does it mean ‘anybody with a functional penis and/or any orifice able to be penetrated by one’?
Psst. Your penetrate-centricity is showing.
I don't want to detour into "What is fuck?" but I do want to drop by to snipe. Just like that.
(Edited in response to reasonable criticism.)
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