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buying a car sucks. |
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yup |
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grow the fuck up. |
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No. |
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i like to spend lots of money |
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What do you need a car for? |
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fuck cars, get a bike. |
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I prefer to walk on foot. |
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"Growing old is mandatory, growing up is not." and "We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing." are both maxims I hold to be true. I have plenty of responsibility, kids are about the only extra thing I could have to deal with. I wouldn't say I'm very "grown up" though. |
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What is growing up? |
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Hair on your nuts and a bad attitude. |
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Cool. |
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I'm moving to a spread out city. I will not use it on a regular basis; twice every three weeks or so. In my current city, which I inhabited for three years, when I had a girlfriend with a car it did make life funner; lots of new things to experience. I like going on hikes for instance, it's nice to be able to just go directly where you wish. I used to think cars are an abomination, but having had access to one a long time changed that. Rather, I still think they are an abomination, but I'm a bad person and will accept their perks. |
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sneakattack. Too clever for his own good. He only signed up to argue with me and now look, he's being all mature and shit! |
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You need someone to punish your bad self! I'm free thursday at 11pm. Public transportation not viable? |
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I should add, I've never 'need'ed a car, however access to one has proved fun and useful at different times; and in low density cities with poor public transportation.. even more so. |
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ha ha ha back in the day. you just reminded me of your hanibal(sp?) avatars. how are you, by the way? |
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I'm good mate. Just older and very busy these days. Enjoying life in general though. Yourself (apart from cars)? |
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NICE AVATAR!! I'm in a transition phase. Gonna start my PhD in the fall at UCSD (university of california at san diego); I'm excited about new environment and opportunities. This summer I have a shit ton of work to do, and it's pretty exciting. Also, I recently (well, one month) broke up with my long-time girlfriend; we really liked each other and it'll cast a shadow over me for some months yet. |
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What is your PhD in? I wish I was good enough to do all that university shit, my brain doesn't like formality and I get bored too easily. More girls will comee along and when you're Dr sneakattack you will find a ton of bitches wanting you for your money (even if you have none everyone loves a Dr) |
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we'll see; I don't meet girls and this girl was really special. Trying to keep my chin up. It's in computer science. Specifically, machine learning, which is a subfield of AI (it's generally probabilistic). It's a new field with lots of change; an exciting and intense time for it. I'm pretty fortunate to have already worked with a couple of the top researchers in the field. Do you still do code for a living? |
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Also, most people are totally useless during PhD, churning out derivative work. it's scary to throw yourself into the dark for five (or whatever) years; I'm worried I lack the diligence and motivation necessary. University is a nice escape from reality. |
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I am acting like a bit of a jack of all trades at the moment. Most of my work at the moment is in data warehousing which is completely dull but I was getting tired of just coding. I am called Mr Business Intelligence which sort of best sums up my role :( I will be leaving my current employer in the near future and am planning on going totally freelance again. I'd love to get into something like machine learning. I have developed rudimentary code that learns as it goes along but it is all very basic. The idea is that eventually it will seek and evaluate alternative solutions to set business problem using the data available to it. |
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Hahah, brilliant. |
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Financially speaking, your in a good position. It's too bad you'll leave your employer, I'm a very nervous person and I like stability in the larger things in life (like jobs, relationships.. I'm very NOT stable in small scale stuff). It's a neat field, but mostly BS right now. People aren't solving the big problems, just dicking around with problems that are mostly solved, squeezing better performance out of them. I hope that some day I can apply some of the things I know to make some very, very sweet synthesizer software. |
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In the past year I have saved my current employer somewhere in the region of $15 million dollars in process improvement...what they pay me in comparison (about $100k) is nothing. I could earn shit loads more working as a field consultant. |
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That's always really depressing for me. A few summers ago I coded in a financial company, and I felt like I was just locked in a corner, and whatever good I did had the effect of making a bunch of fuckers in suits even richer; no positive effect on the world. A really competent friend is working there now, and it just seems like a waste of time. You're in liverpool, right? are there good opportunities? I guess plenty of people in your position move to london. |
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There isn't much opportunity but I love Liverpool and can't stand London in general. The good thing is that there isn't all that much competition for jobs or contracts, plus I don't mind travelling. It was easier when I didn't have a long term girlfriends as I would just move to where ever I was working for a few months and think nothing of it. Now I try to make sure I can get home as much as possible. |
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Oh I see; yeah, long term relationships are hard. Did you ever get to travel outside the UK for your work? I imagine that could be fun, though stressful. I just looked at a map; liverpool was farther north than I had thought, and also on a coast. is it pretty there? I've seen some wonderful photos of british and irish coasts. |
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You have long term girlfriends? Respect! |
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It's hardly noticeable, but the plural s in girlfriends is in italics. To emphasize it. |
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So if I used a bold tag, it'd look like this girlfriends |
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This thread has really grown. |
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up? |
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I made myself a new nutsack holder out of the exoskeletons of my lice. |
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grow up? or grow op? don't get busted either way.... (i have nothing to add to this thread other then that) |
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anyone remember the advert for sonar with the 'sampler dude' from slipknot? |
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financing a car sucks. buy a sport bike. pussy galore. |
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well, you haven't really grown up yet if you're whining like a baby. |
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very few people on this planet are grown up. they all seem to be destroying the planet and don't create nice playing grounds for kids, then slap them when they get bored,and expect them to follow their example. how fking grown up is that? adults are just older twisted children. freq |
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