I walked in at the right time. Is there coding talk going on in here?

... Do you hate your life?

yes @shadowlessnexus

w3 is solid

also Firefox has some good tutorials.

Web dev is just something like the hidden circle of hell for me.

I also don't know anyone who enjoys web-dev. But if you want to do it.
1. Learn HTML
2. Learn CSS
3. Learn JS
4. Learn JQuery
5. Learn SQL
6. Learn your client server programing language tech. (I use Freemarker Templates and Java Servlets)
7. Learn AJAX

Give me a sec.

I got a great resource for ya for the first bit.

PLEASE NO!!!

Shit

I cant send you a link

Let me pm you

OK The two oldest semesters here have assignments, homeworks, lectures, exams etc...

It goes into PHP towards the end

but it covers most of what you need and has solutions to check with.

Oh you can

But projects are better.

Its like saying 'I can speak chinese' vs saying 'wo3 hui2 shuo1 han4yu3'

There are two golden rules.

1. Do

2. Ask

1 = practice, try, fuck up and learn.

2 = even if you have been doing this 30 years you will routinely look up the most basic shit. Get good at it.

Just today I had to verify that JS for getting the text from an submitted input box was .value and not .innerHTML

I'm a uni students.

Skip uni.

You are better just coding than getting a degree.

And online tutorials are better than most professors.

Derek Banas is godly for learning Java, and if you want to do advanced shit try Siraj Raval

I hate it, but I am too far into it to get out now. (I graduate next semster) so I am just gonna swap my masters to teaching.

It does not.

I hate it when I don't do it for myself.

But it pays really well if you get the right knowledge.

@legendpinnen It depends on what you want to do with coding. If you want to work on games you might want to learn C# (the language of Unity game engine) or Python if you want to do machine learning.

@Happy Humble Hermit Same, I just realized too late that I would be more fulfilled teaching and it is literally faster to finish and then get a masters than to swap majors. I really have been wanting to ask you about your experiences with getting your degree and the system though. So I can know what I am getting into. (I plan to get certified and then teach abroad though.)

@JDB I would not say it is shallow, but it is unwise.

There are so many more amazing companies out there.

It really matters more as to why you want to work with the big 4.

@Happy Humble Hermit Sweet. If I am ever awake when you do a show I want to call in. I might have a few stories worth sharing.

@JDB Then do great things. Prove to yourself by doing. The women who work for google probably arent great. They might be compotent or even good but you got to put up with them to work in the big 4.

You don't need google, amazon or whoever to do great things.

The status really does not matter. Status is for how others will see you. Doing great is for how you see yourself.
"There is no honor in being better than another man. There is only honor in being better than your former self." - Horribly mangled quote from Kingsman.

@JDB Don't get into coding, start teaching. Otherwise I would say practice more.

Like I said I don't enjoy most of my time coding. I would rather teach and mentor.

But if I had to do coding I would say practice.

The more you do, the better you are going to learn.

@legendpinnen That is just me.

There we go.

@legendpinnen If you think you will enjoy it, try it. Get your feet wet. Do some basic stuff. If you continue to like it keep doing it. If not find something else.

@JDB The greatest joy in my life is feeding my curiosity. To learn. But when I die I might as well have spent all that time mastrubating. Mentoring allows my constant learning to bear fruit beyond myself.

I don't know yet. I suspect 18-23 year olds. But I will be taking a year to work with elementary students next year. Like I just said, part of the process is to get your feet wet, try things and learn what you like and do not like.

Yupyup, if you get stuck on the learning and I am online feel free to shoot me a message. I might be able to explain it, or not.

super-trap-chan was that aimed at me?

@JDB I do not know robert greene but I do agree mastery has its intrinsic rewards.

@legendpinnen I do not know. Probably philosophy, but my problem is I study everything so I will want to teach everything. So a better answer may very well be I want to teach what the student wants to learn.

I am not sure that applies in my case. It is not about me. It is about humanity as a whole. The people I mentor can do whatever they want or don't want. I am just here for when they need it.
That is the catch of being a mentor/teacher. You need students, and apart from having children you cannot force people to be your student. They have to want to learn from you or else you are both just banging your heads against a wall.

So if you want to be a good teacher you need to want to be a good teacher (AKA you have to put in the hours and work to develop your skills, knowledge, communication etc...) and you have to have students.

Well two answers. 1. I don't, that is to say if no one wanted to learn from me then nothing I do would matter.
2. If the student wants to learn then I should pass on my knowledge as it was passed on to me so that the chain can continue. The books I learn from, the videos I watch, the tutorials I follow were all given to me by people who learned like I did or through direct discovery. They give to me and so I give to those who come after me. Without this the knowledge dies and the benefits it carries dies with it.

So as far as should, and good are concerned these are moral judgements. There are two ways to approach this. Religious and Atheistic. For religion it is about doing what your diety says, and while I have my own personal views on how and why relgions work for this argument passing on knowledge is a reguirement for religions.
For the atheist or areligious man then morality comes down to him. For me this follows a line of thought that anything not perpetuated fails to exist and that which reproduces best lives. If my knowledge was useful in any way then its usefulness would justify its perpetuation. Or at least its rediscovery (see MGTOW ideas for example.)
The main point of this second argument is that for making a moral judgement there is no rule or measure except that which you give it. So I choose a set thing as the highest good and live towards that. In my case I have settled on helping humanity to expand beyond earth. Anything beyond this enters cosmic nihilism and anything before this is overwritten by the fact that if it does not fit into this goal then it will cease to exist.
This goal is not without it's flaws (if for example humanity encountered intelligent alien life my entire value system would fall apart instantly) but for right now it works well for me for making moral judgements in relation to how they fit into this goal.

I hope that answers your question. ^_^;;

Oh and for the third question. If the kid wanted to learn what I had to teach, then one of two outcomes will happen. He will be better off by gaining easier knowledge while I teach him and this knowledge will improve his life. Or if the knowledge will worsen his life he will learn from the lessons of pain and suffering, but he will learn them faster with a teacher than without.
The only way I can do harm is if my teaching would hinder his learning. In which case I am obviously not the teacher for that student.

Sure, I wish I could attribute the source since I am sure I heard it somewhere else first. XD

But I think this plays into self-actualization. When it comes to your purpose you have to decide that. Not me. I can only help you figure that out for yourself. If I were to do otherwise, lets say by telling you such and such is wrong and right then eventually...

Oh part of that I don't know. I am still figuring out that myself. I have considered being a parent in some capacity before but the hurdles (in america) seem not worth the effort and I have not settled down in another country yet to make that decision there. It is not off the table but I do not know.

I suspect the age range will change as I get older.

Right now I focus on that age because I am at uni and a lot of the students are in that age range, also many of them are getting the full uni mind$*%@ and learning a lot about the world and women. So my knowledge of human nature is exceptionally well served there as they are eager to learn it and it is extremely useful to them.
Once I get to my 40's maybe I will be more able to mentor men in their 30's for example.

3 months alone is good for introspection, which is vital for self-actualization. But I do not know if that will do it or not on its own.
Once you get to the point where you realize you set your own purpose (vs the standard biologial imperitive of popping out kids and supporting a wife) you then need to figure out what matters to you. Introspection helps there but chances are you need to try things or go places until you figure it out. Maybe you really want to get into costuming for example and designing props is the thing you want to do with your life. You won't know for sure till you start doing it, because before then it is just an idea and after you try it you might hate it.

I study comp sci, and I am in my late 20's.

@Happy Humble Hermit Thanks and yeah... it's just your show starts at like 3AM and I am always asleep. XD I have been meaning to call in though.
Also just got a copy of

'The Rational Male' after you suggested it in one of your vids. I plan to read it next month when winter break starts. Looks good so far though.

Awesome.

Jeeze, well I hope it works out well. And if I got decent internet at the time I will certainly call in.

The problem is I will be in Thailand for half of that month. So I wont have a good phone. (Mid-December is when the red lotus lake is in bloom.)

Anyways, eventually it will happen. And of course!

Ah... >_> I need to visit that at some point. I can assume there is good content there?

Gotcha, thanks again.

I don't know much about reddit, but does it not have a system which lets the best content float to the top? In theory that would mean that an abundance of quantity should lead to more quality.

I am afraid I do not understand that quote. I will need to read more into the context of it.

Not all of mine. "When standing at parade rest your hands will be like this *shows hand with fingers closed thumb extended* and not like this *fans hand out* You are not a wizard and if you are you aren't casting any spells in my army." was the first words I heard from mine.

No, but if you are using it to learn coding you can try to coding section of Kahn Academy

Would we be able to get a link to the article? I don't know what this is about.

Well worst case you can just put a disclaimer on it. And your followers who want to hear you read the whole thing, but the ones who aren't interested can just skip it without wasting 8 or so minutes.

@The woken child The real problem with this question is more easily seen in China. When you have a large enough market you can sell cheap shit under different names and the customer pool is so large there will always be more suckers.

The government is not making these companies sell shit locally.

This is a lack of regulation problem. I don't think think regulation is the answer but I am just pointing out the flaw in the argument earlier.

Belize is expensive though. If you got cash it is great but most of us are not 300k in the bank.

Huh... I have been misinformed then.

Oh and Hermit since you are floating around I wanted to run a question by you.
So as a teacher/mentor especially concerning 'Red Pill' ideas if a guy comes up to you because you look like you have your shit together or whatever reason you want, but he asks you how to get the attention of women.
Do you tell him how to attract women or focus on teaching him 'Red Pill' knowledge and warning him of the dangers of women in the current year (in America).
I know that the two are not completely exclusive but in my head it comes down to a trade off of giving him what he wants to prove compotency (say this and she will do that etcetcetc...) vs teaching him what he needs to know but him not listening.
Just wanted some thoughts on it.
@Happy Humble Hermit

Well @matthias09 I can answer basic stuff but the only person who has really studied it that I know of is TFM. He has some good youtube videos on the subject.

@Reaper XD I don't hate it yet but I am only 3 books and 1 uni course into it. I am that way with code tho. 5 years in and I never want to touch the stuff again.

@Happy Humble Hermit Thanks. Not the answer I was expecting but that was something I did not consider.

What is ICT?

And what is your current country if you are ok revealing that. (Someone else please stop me if that is not allowed on this discord)

Ok, so there are pretty good countries to work in depending on your needs. I only have looked into a few (mostly in asia) but the big hurdles are usually getting a visa to work.

If you have a degree or internationally recognized certifications that helps a ton.

No one can read the future mate.
Your best bet is to remain flexible, do research and when the country you move to tanks hop onto another.
I have been told UAE is a solid Moneymaker, decent living in Thailand and Indonesia, Vietnam is on the upswing right now but I know their tech sector is flooded with locals so competition will be brutal.
I would avoid China as they are getting primed for their own financial collaspe and if it happens your head will go on a pike just for being a forigener.
Likewise I would avoid Saudi Arabia for its impending civil problems despite the ability to make good cash there.
You probably want to avoid Japan and Korea as they are both difficult to get work for and if you are doing non-English Teaching work you will have to put up with their brutal work culture and their immense Gynocentrism problems (slated to get worse of course).
For the same reason I would be careful when picking a Western nation like the US, Australia, or most of Europe.
But you can make good money in the short run to give you a better buffer when it is time to jump ship again.

Anyone feel free to correct me if I am wrong as I don't know much in depth about most countries outside of far East Asia.

Oh Sparky, one of the guys was asking about advice on where to move to for work since his country was tanking. Took me a while to finish responding. XD

@ziyauren That is true, I am kind of hoping to play hopscotch with it and that everything doesn't all tank at the same time. But yeah right now there is nowhere to run and set up shop forever.

@Sparky You got to make port somewhere and when you do you need to be able to get supplies. So you need savings and to be lucky enough to avoid any major storms that will capsize you while you wait for the shit to finish hitting the fan.