BadMathBook3's comments

Personally, I fit into this group to a degree (I'm almost 40 -- not the same age group really). That said, I'm all about working.

I just hate office life anymore. "Jobs" are passe, IMO. I'm burned out on it after 25 years, countless lines of code, and hours of effort having been expropriated from me. I'm tired of how hard it is to change specialties; not because I'm not smart enough, but because I don't have the time because I'm expected to fucking work all the time.

I've had a few payouts from tech, but nothing to retire on for life. There's a serious inequity in working at an office when I've doing 40+ wks for years, struggled to get by a lot it, but the guy one level up the org char rolls in with his new Vette.

Women seem to find it novel, since they haven't historically had access. So let em at it.

Do we NEED this many people "working" on whatever the "free market" demands (which is usually just code for "within the highly moderated financial system").

I doubt it. IMO, the only economic output that society as a whole should be concerned with is education, healthcare, and the infra that enables those efforts.

The rest is a farce. Consumption driven avarice.

So, less emphasis "neat/readable organization symbols in a particular file" (though it's still important) and more emphasis "neatly organized abstractions enabling broad application"?

I often find folks who prefer langs like C, or at least have a lot of experience with it, are better at that than Ruby/JS/Python folks who haven't used much else.

Conference travel pushed me into buying a case with battery built in to avoid these situations.

Those prices seem comical. Rudin passed nearly 8 years ago. Who is this benefiting? America is off its rocker.

Google the title + PDF

I bailed on high school math, thinking I'm math dumb.

In my late 20s I decided to try again, but jumped straight into calculus. And at first regretted that decision. However, I got lucky by stumbling upon this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Calculus-Made-Easy-Silvanus-Thompson/...

It "reads" like a book, with the ideas given context. I had an "ok" connection with Algebra, and the book explained the rest well enough for me.

In school, the textbooks were loaded with symbols, but not enough description -- I guess they relied on bored teachers making minimum wage to do that part. I went to a school with poor academic showings (but connections to state superintendent of ed got them a grant for football facilities).

Coincidentally, this book goes well with the technique described here:

http://www.pathsensitive.com/2018/01/the-benjamin-franklin-m...