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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Novus on Mon, 02 March 2015, 14:22:04
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What do you think is the most important skill to have in life?
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hope
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Optimisim
It has actually been shown to help prolong life and increase quality of life
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Communication.
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Being a millionaire is a pretty good skill.
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keeping track of when to take my meds
cause when i didn't do that some not so great things happened
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Being a millionaire is a pretty good skill.
No I don't think that does you much good in Zimbabwe.
Aim higher.
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being able to rebuild an F
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For the majority of people Algebra..
Highest recommended, diff eq, linear-alg..
That's prettttty much everything you'll need to know in life that's readily applicable..
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Flash to juke the jungler.
In all seriousness though, the ability to create an elevator pitch. Being able to convey something complex in a matter of minutes/seconds can be invaluable. It's gotten me more work offers than I can count over the years and has also helped improve my public speaking ability as a whole because I know more of what people want to hear out of my presentations.
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Turning stacks to racks. And being able to count it properly.
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For the majority of people Algebra..
Highest recommended, diff eq, linear-alg..
That's prettttty much everything you'll need to know in life that's readily applicable..
Diff eq can go **** itself. That and calc are the reason I was not an IT major...
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For the majority of people Algebra..
Highest recommended, diff eq, linear-alg..
That's prettttty much everything you'll need to know in life that's readily applicable..
Diff eq can go **** itself. That and calc are the reason I was not an IT major...
what on earth does calc have to do with IT? it was actually a mandatory course?
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For the majority of people Algebra..
Highest recommended, diff eq, linear-alg..
That's prettttty much everything you'll need to know in life that's readily applicable..
Diff eq can go **** itself. That and calc are the reason I was not an IT major...
what on earth does calc have to do with IT? it was actually a mandatory course?
Yup...I hate this school...
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
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Life-long learning: Constantly learning, and growing as a person in both tangible, and intangible (soft) skills. This includes knowing how to dig information up for yourself when stuck.
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
yeah but most schools make you do it if you do an IT/engineering major
which is applicable to me, since i'm probably gonna do one of those
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Being a millionaire is a pretty good skill.
No I don't think that does you much good in Zimbabwe.
Aim higher.
Optimisim and communication wont do you much good in a North Korean prison camp, so do they need to aim higher too?
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
Calculus was my first math class, first semester of college, they said it was to 'weed' people out who didn't belong at the school.
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
Calculus was my first math class, first semester of college, they said it was to 'weed' people out who didn't belong at the school.
are all american schools like this? finding a good school is absolutely the most important part of education.
we had to take discrete mathematics, but there was no dedicated 'calc' course.
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
Calculus was my first math class, first semester of college, they said it was to 'weed' people out who didn't belong at the school.
are all american schools like this?
we had to take discrete mathematics, but there was no dedicated 'calc' course.
As was mentioned above I think it happens more in engineering programs.
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
Calculus was my first math class, first semester of college, they said it was to 'weed' people out who didn't belong at the school.
are all american schools like this? finding a good school is absolutely the most important part of education.
we had to take discrete mathematics, but there was no dedicated 'calc' course.
different schools / different countries call it different things..
but generally, if you know ur diff/int rules, your test rules, basic 3-D in america that's calc 1-2 and 3..
There's no precise thing as "discrete" math.. so if that's what the course is called, it can actually be any number of things..
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kickflips
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calc is why i'm considering doing stuff other than IT
i ****ing hate advanced maths
i dropped calc and started a non-euclidian geometry course that's been aight so far
calc has nothing to do with IT...
Calculus was my first math class, first semester of college, they said it was to 'weed' people out who didn't belong at the school.
are all american schools like this? finding a good school is absolutely the most important part of education.
we had to take discrete mathematics, but there was no dedicated 'calc' course.
different schools / different countries call it different things..
but generally, if you know ur diff/int rules, your test rules, basic 3-D in america that's calc 1-2 and 3..
There's no precise thing as "discrete" math.. so if that's what the course is called, it can actually be any number of things..
it was a bunch of the subtopics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete_mathematics
like 75% of that.
the course was there to help with studying and validating algorithms rather than to count against a math degree.
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change a ****ing flat tire
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kickflip a ****ing flat tire
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kickflip a ****ing flat tire
HAHAHAHA.. Now I just picture a juxtaposition of Pai walking down the street doing invisible skateboard tricks.. while all the boring normal people live like zombies walking towards the slow death that is their job...
Also.. relevant ... Drop-Kicks.. I still need to practice mine.. but I don't have a mat..
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drop-kickflips
boom
im excited for summer :-[
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change a ****ing flat tire
In the ****ing dark!
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Being a millionaire is a pretty good skill.
No I don't think that does you much good in Zimbabwe.
Aim higher.
Optimisim and communication wont do you much good in a North Korean prison camp, so do they need to aim higher too?
Actually if you ever watched interviews and documentaries about interment or prison camps they always talk about optimism and family. People that survived those sort of ordeals don't need to aim higher, they're already pretty high.
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change a ****ing flat tire
In the ****ing dark!
While intoxicated......
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change a ****ing flat tire
In the ****ing dark!
While intoxicated......
how intoxicated tho
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If there were a skill I regret not focusing more on it would be programming. When I started I automatically lumped programming in with mathematics(my most hated of all the proof-of-concept sciences) and gradually built a deep hatred for it because of that. Now it's like mental torture every time I have to comb through code, or god forbid, write some of my own.
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Having a good grasp of what you're capable of, also the confidence to push yourself past where you feel comfortable.
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Having a good grasp of what you're capable of, also the confidence to push yourself past where you feel comfortable.
I find a lot of younger people getting into the workforce these days have an overabundance of confidence paired with a lack of skill and drive.
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Common sense is greatly underappreciated.
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Being able to persuade others (to hire you, give you a raise, sleep with you, etc.)
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Having a good grasp of what you're capable of, also the confidence to push yourself past where you feel comfortable.
I find a lot of younger people getting into the workforce these days have an overabundance of confidence paired with a lack of skill and drive.
I'd like to think I'm not cocky at work. I totally agree with what you said, I work with the son of one of my companie's presidents and the dude has no work ethic. He spends half the day napping and smoking weed.
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Discrete mathematics and logic were the two most useful courses I took during my first time around in college. Calc 3, on the other hand) was utterly useless to me in my first career in the legal (slave/forced labor) industry.
From law school, contracts has been pretty damned useful (everything else in law school was a huge waste of time). At least Contracta has helped me decipher the boilerplate contracts attached to everything these days.
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The ability to hire people who are better than you at certain things.
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^ dat
And flirting
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common sense
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Being a millionaire is a pretty good skill.
No I don't think that does you much good in Zimbabwe.
Aim higher.
Optimisim and communication wont do you much good in a North Korean prison camp, so do they need to aim higher too?
Actually if you ever watched interviews and documentaries about interment or prison camps they always talk about optimism and family. People that survived those sort of ordeals don't need to aim higher, they're already pretty high.
True I guess, I mean its not like North Korean labour camps imprison you, your children and your children's children.
Though back to your point, if you were a relative millionaire (realative even in cheap ass American dorras, this being a yankie site and all) I'm pretty sure you'd be set in Zimbabwe, assuming you were black... and if not you could probably afford to get yourself out.
:)
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dang.. almost forgot..
Typing speed.. !!
(http://www.msgking.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/onion-avatar035.gif)
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common sense
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common sense
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Humility might also be one ;)
Mr. /thread
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common sense
/thread
common sense
/thread
Humility might also be one ;)
Mr. /thread
touché
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common sense
/thread
common sense
/thread
Humility might also be one ;)
Mr. /thread
touché
/kickflips
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Being in the right place at the right time.
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Forget hope and optimism. Paranoia is the mindset that work best.
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Critical thinking skills.. you can teach yourself almost anything online these days. You can audit free classes from some of the best schools in the world, for free
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Oh, and being self motivated.. I'm just terrible at that =/
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Oh, and being self motivated.. I'm just terrible at that =/
Self Motivation is overrated.
The world would be a much simpler place if everyone would just squander their innate talents and do nothing all day :cool:
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For the majority of people Algebra.. Highest recommended, diff eq, linear-alg.. That's prettttty much everything you'll need to know in life that's readily applicable..
Solving differential equations is fun enough, but I agree with you that algebra is a better skill. In particular, everyone should learn to bust out nice proofs and show off their commutative diagram drawing skills.
I recommend the Snake Lemma, because it has a cool name, takes a nifty/elegant proof, involves really nice commutative diagrams, is pretty useful in graduate level mathematics, and because its proof showed up in the 1980 film It’s My Turn, perhaps the only time some real mathematics showed up in a Hollywood picture.
I mean, check this out:
(https://concretenonsense.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/aaaaa-011.jpg)
(taping a snake to the diagram is optional)
For those not into algebra, differential geometry proofs are an okay alternative. Riemannian manifolds are cool.
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change a ****ing flat tire
One night when I came out of work, there was this guy with this nice ass BMW who had to call a tow truck and get a guy to change the flat tire on his BMW.
Can spend over 30 grand on a BMW but doesn't take 30 minutes of his time to learn how to change a tire
zzzz people are so lazy
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change a ****ing flat tire
One night when I came out of work, there was this guy with this nice ass BMW who had to call a tow truck and get a guy to change the flat tire on his BMW.
Can spend over 30 grand on a BMW but doesn't take 30 minutes of his time to learn how to change a tire
zzzz people are so lazy
Sounds like San Diego ;)
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change a ****ing flat tire
One night when I came out of work, there was this guy with this nice ass BMW who had to call a tow truck and get a guy to change the flat tire on his BMW.
Can spend over 30 grand on a BMW but doesn't take 30 minutes of his time to learn how to change a tire
zzzz people are so lazy
well, it depends tbh.
if im paying a yearly service you're damn sure im going to use it. i've had onstar on my truck and had to use it for a tire change, because i had **** to do at work and couldn't take the time to change it myself.
but, triple A can be slow. so i'd probably end up doing it myself if i had nothing else to do and just wanted to keep going.
point is, tire change should be a requirement to get your license. you benefit from it and you can help others if need be.
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Help others?
PSH other people only help you if you're a hot chick.
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white knights will only help you if you're a hot chick*
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Fortunately, I'm a black knight.
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the blackest
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change a ****ing flat tire
One night when I came out of work, there was this guy with this nice ass BMW who had to call a tow truck and get a guy to change the flat tire on his BMW.
Can spend over 30 grand on a BMW but doesn't take 30 minutes of his time to learn how to change a tire
zzzz people are so lazy
well on some mercedes, they got those bolts now that are very hard to put on by oneself because you gotta hold the tire up or get it at the perfect height to mate with the jack..
i'm not sure if bmw has them too..
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How to not **** your pants.
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How to not **** your pants.
Still working on that one, huh?
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point is, tire change should be a requirement to get your license. you benefit from it and you can help others if need be.
the ability to drive well should be a requirement #1.
doesn't seem to be like that in a bunch of countries.
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Oh, and being self motivated.. I'm just terrible at that =/
Critical thinking skills.. you can teach yourself almost anything online these days. You can audit free classes from some of the best schools in the world, for free
...aka problem solving.
Where in the world do you have to take Calc for IT degrees? It was only required for science and engineering when I was in school. MIS (Management of Information Systems) was a business degree and may have required business Calc at the most (I'm not sure since I was a science/engineering CS major) which is not like regular Calculus at all. I can't imagine why you would ever need Calculus in IT.
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Oh, and being self motivated.. I'm just terrible at that =/
Critical thinking skills.. you can teach yourself almost anything online these days. You can audit free classes from some of the best schools in the world, for free
...aka problem solving.
Where in the world do you have to take Calc for IT degrees? It was only required for science and engineering when I was in school. MIS (Management of Information Systems) was a business degree and may have required business Calc at the most (I'm not sure since I was a science/engineering CS major) which is not like regular Calculus at all. I can't imagine why you would ever need Calculus in IT.
USA from what everyone above was telling me.
i can only imagine it was setup by admins that don't actually program and assume math = computers = programming.
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I'm in the US.
Programming is a Computer Science discipline (engineering/science). IT/MIS is/was considered a business degree with a technical emphasis. I don't know many people in IT that actually do much, if any, programming. I think there may be some confusion as to what is what.
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I'm in the US.
Programming is a Computer Science discipline (engineering/science). IT/MIS is/was considered a business degree with a technical emphasis. I don't know many people in IT that actually do much, if any, programming. I think there may be some confusion as to what is what.
man...schools in the usa are so weird....
at my trade school, IT was network and computer security* with a secondary emphasis on programming (kinda hard to figure out security issues with programs in real life if you don't understand a lick of even java) . there was only a single entrepreneurship business course that was shared with the programmers.
*both hardware and software.
programming and computer science are considered separate things in BC, Canada at least. although there is a chicken and egg program where universities don't want to create a program where its graduates won't get a sellable title and companies aren't going to ask for a degree that doesn't exist.
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I think that some level of programming/application design is taught in most high schools and degree programs now like "Computer Applications in Engineering" which teaches VB to engineering students. I have a niece that took some Java and HTML classes in high school. That doesn't mean that the student understands software engineering. It's not the same. Not even close.
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I think that some level of programming/application design is taught in most high schools and degree programs now like "Computer Applications in Engineering" which teaches VB to engineering students. I have a niece that took some Java and HTML classes in high school. That doesn't mean that the student understands software engineering. It's not the same. Not even close.
what exactly is the appeal of a company hiring an 'IT graduate' over a 'business analyst'?
in Canada, it's exceedingly clear, the IT grad guy is the one that gets called to setup the computers. definitively tech support. no excel, no customer contact.
you're saying that the IT grad in the US will have to 'balance spreadsheets' and provide tech support?
EDIT:
is there actually a specific curriculm online that you're referring to?
EDIT2:
i'm curious because this might have some serious repercussions on salary comparisons.
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You can see the difference between MIS and CS and even CIS here: http://www.uh.edu/academics/majors-minors/majors/
When people say "IT" they are typically referring to MIS and CIS.
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I never said anything about spreadsheets.
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Wisdom and understanding. Coupled with faith, hope and love.
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Psychological manipulation / Seduction (not necessarily the one that gets you laid)
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Just in general: grit, or sisu.
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A sense of humour.
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Patience
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kickflipping brains
ftfy you ****ing nerd
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Being able to convince people to do stuff for you and still give you credit for it.
Also, being Chuck Norris should be enough :)
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The ability to quiet your mind; and also see that everything in this universe is temporary.
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Nunchuck skills.
Bowhunting skills.
Computer hacking skills.
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Nunchuck skills.
Bowhunting skills.
Computer hacking skills.
This requires PCI-Bus.. we all know dis' is the fastest bus..
They should make a new hackers movie, and throw in a line about pci-express for funsies..
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The ability to think about what's important.
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Psychic manipulation / Seduction (not necessarily the one that gets you laid)
Stasi, is that you?
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Psychic manipulation / Seduction (not necessarily the one that gets you laid)
Stasi, is that you?
Psst comrade, Враг слышит!