Curt Doolittle

Form: Quote Commentary

  • “Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find”— Well, I d

    —“Europe was the birthplace of mankind, not Africa, scientists find”—

    Well, I don’t know whether that’s true, but 7.2M years ago, predates both the salinity crisis (dry sea) the Zanclean flood.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-22 18:19:00 UTC

  • by ‎Joel Davis‎ James Augustus, your insight on this topic still inspires me. On

    by ‎Joel Davis‎

    James Augustus, your insight on this topic still inspires me.

    On tragedy and heroism,

    To act is to encounter resistance. To encounter resistance is to suffer.

    To overpower resistance individually is heroism. To overpower resistance collectively is progress. Collective progression requires heroic leaders, hence the glory of heroism.

    To succumb to resistance individually is inevitable, however to struggle against resistance individually is to aide the collective struggle to progress. Collective progression requires individual struggle, hence the beauty of tragedy.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-22 16:46:00 UTC

  • “All information in real time is far ahead of human comprehension in real time.

    –“All information in real time is far ahead of human comprehension in real time. Just a hypothesis.”—D Frank Robinson

    Yes, but Ill toss in the observation that it depends on the categories.

    Most iq improvement appears to have been the result of fixing the bottom and exposing people to general rules (categories) rather than particular rules.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-22 14:57:00 UTC

  • “Our ancestors undershot on violence so we’ll eventually have to overshoot to co

    —“Our ancestors undershot on violence so we’ll eventually have to overshoot to compensate for it.”— Steve Pender

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-22 13:42:00 UTC

  • “What about Kierkegaard? He taught to the world the meaning of perspective!”—

    —“What about Kierkegaard? He taught to the world the meaning of perspective!”— A Friend

    If you want to read fantasy literature, read german philosophy. If you want to read truth, simply read science, law, and history.

    1) The works of Religion (pseudo-mythology – latin) (lies)

    2) The works of Platonism (pseudo-rationalism – german and french) (ideals) (postmodernists)

    3) The works of Frauds (pseudoscience – Jewish) (Frauds) (freud, marx, boaz, frankfurt school)

    4) The works of Literature (analogy – the works of the anglo historians and russian literature) (analogies)

    5) The works of History, Law, Science ( description – the works of anglos and aristotelians.) (truth)

    Roughly speaking, I”ve just described each standard deviation in iQ

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-22 12:25:00 UTC

  • STARTING TECHIES: THIS IS THE ROADMAP, AND IT WILL ONLY SOLIDIFY —“Why spend t

    https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmapFOR STARTING TECHIES: THIS IS THE ROADMAP, AND IT WILL ONLY SOLIDIFY

    —“Why spend time on becoming specifically a _web_ developer?”— Maxim V Filimonov

    I think if you study comp-sci at a university there are more intellectually interesting, and more profitable, problems -where you can work with better people.

    I think consulting and travel working on system integration is always financially more rewarding. And if you are curious about the world, certainly more interesting.

    I think that if you want to practice a craft for money there is nothing more interesting for people, and I am not sure there is much more *achievable* for them.

    Web is largely marketing and social. System Integration is largely business related. System and driver development is for engineers. And this reflects the structure of all other technological crafts.

    I prefer to work on business software, even if my specialization is user interfaces. But I recognize that it’s my bias.

    My view is that:

    (a) Browser alliances are holding up innovation and driving up costs – the standards movement was NOT advantageous, but inhibitive.

    (b) Javascript is trying to please the bottom and causing us tragic problems across the rest of the spectrum, and driving up costs world wide.

    (c) Java is and always was a horrible technology by which to circumvent failures of operating systems.

    (d) Microsoft is holding up innovation because of the network effect, the availability of rents,

    (e) Apple has abandoned professionals and therefore competition with microsoft.

    (f) Google has failed in its attempts at defeating microsoft’s monopoly (because google sucks at UI).

    (g) that the future is just javascript and ilbraries and the ‘node’ technology that circumvents the server burden.

    The browser is already the OS, and JS is already its language.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 20:25:00 UTC

  • Why is the U.S thought of so negatively by many?

    Why is the U.S thought of so negatively by many? https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-U-S-thought-of-so-negatively-by-many/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=83f26522

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 16:26:20 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/866329322340065280

  • Why are women less distracted by attractive men than men being distracted by a b

    Why are women less distracted by attractive men than men being distracted by a beautiful woman? https://www.quora.com/Why-are-women-less-distracted-by-attractive-men-than-men-being-distracted-by-a-beautiful-woman/answer/Curt-Doolittle?share=60b21733

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 15:46:00 UTC

    Original post: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/866319169142358017

  • THE CHINESE DO IT RIGHT, THE RUSSIANS DO IT RIGHT —“From the final weeks of 20

    THE CHINESE DO IT RIGHT, THE RUSSIANS DO IT RIGHT

    —“From the final weeks of 2010 through the end of 2012, according to former American officials, the Chinese killed at least a dozen of the C.I.A.’s sources. According to three of the officials, one was shot in front of his colleagues in the courtyard of a government building — a message to others who might have been working for the C.I.A. Still others were put in jail. All told, the Chinese killed or imprisoned 18 to 20 of the C.I.A.’s sources in China, according to two former senior American officials, effectively unraveling a network that had taken years to build.”— NYT

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 14:20:00 UTC

  • THE LAWS OF STUPIDITY (h/t to a friend) URGENT VS IMPORANT (Eisenhower) “I have

    THE LAWS OF STUPIDITY

    (h/t to a friend)

    URGENT VS IMPORANT

    (Eisenhower)

    “I have two kinds of problems: the urgent and the important. The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent.”

    Important: an outcome that leads to us achieving our goals, whether these are professional or personal.

    Urgent: achieving someone else’s goals. They are often the ones we concentrate on and they demand attention because the consequences of not dealing with them are immediate.

    Therefore all Priorities can be organized into:

    1 – Important and urgent

    2 – Important and not urgent

    3 – not important, but urgent

    4 – not important, and not urgent

    THE ILLUSORY COMPETENCE PROBLEM

    (stupid people don’t know they’re stupid)

    The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias, wherein persons of low ability suffer from illusory superiority when they mistakenly assess their ability as greater than they possess. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude, without which they cannot accurately evaluate their actual competence.

    AMBITIOUS VS CAPABLE

    by General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord

    “I divide my officers into four classes as follows: The clever, the industrious, the lazy, and the stupid. Each officer always possesses two of these qualities. The man who is clever and lazy qualifies for the highest leadership posts. He has the requisite nerves and the mental clarity for difficult decisions. Those who are clever and industrious I appoint to the General Staff, [ensuring that every detail is properly considered]. Use can – under certain circumstances – be made of those who are stupid and lazy, [they do no harm.]. But whoever is stupid and industrious must be got rid of, for he is too dangerous.”

    STUPID PEOPLE

    by Carlo M. Cipolla

    Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

    Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

    Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

    Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

    Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person, because a stupid person is more dangerous than a bandit.

    THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE

    The single most determining factor of your health, wealth, and happiness, is continuously decreasing the population below 105iQ.

    Source date (UTC): 2017-05-21 12:29:00 UTC