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Re: A question about a few variables in a class

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On 8/14/2011 8:09 PM, Chad wrote:
>[...]
> Well, I believe that I've gone on record in the past as saying that
> I'm kind of slow. I'm not ashamed of the fact that I got flat out
> rejected by both UCLA and UC Berkeley on numerous occassions. I'm fine
> with the fact that I have to read a section in the school book
> multiple times and ask questions before anything actually sinks in. I
> know there are people in this program that don't have to study and
> still manage to get A's. I'm not one of them.

     All the more reason to cultivate discipline, to make almost
a fetish of exactness.  It may or may not limit the scope of your
creativity, but it *will* limit the scope of your mistakes.  I've
made a pretty successful career out of being a careful non-genius;
you can do so too.  But "careful" is the word, "meticulous" is
the byword, "slapdash" is the word you must reject.

-- 
Eric Sosman
esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid

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A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-05 14:31 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-05 14:46 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-06 07:56 -0400
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 10:30 -0700
      Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-13 20:49 -0400
        Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 13:23 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class markspace <-@.> - 2011-08-14 13:52 -0700
            Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 22:50 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 18:04 -0400
            Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 17:09 -0700
              Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 21:57 -0400
              Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-14 22:55 -0700
          Re: A question about a few variables in a class Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-08-14 18:01 -0400
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-08-06 22:58 -0700
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-07 05:28 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-08-10 09:14 -0700
    Re: A question about a few variables in a class Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2011-08-13 10:27 -0700
  Re: A question about a few variables in a class Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-08-14 18:36 -0700

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