Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating
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I started meditating in April 2015 and in September I realized that teaching people to code is not something that the world needs right now. I realized that the world needs something else. Something more important. The world is full of suffering. There are wars, fear, hate, violence, poverty and a lot of other terrible things. I realized that people can live without these terrible things. I want people to live in harmony, love, happiness and abundance as I do thanks to meditation.
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after a long programming career of 3 years(!) he decided he wants to make the world a better place, meditating.
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@Jarry said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
after a long programming career of 3 years(!)
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@Jarry said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
I started meditating in April 2015 and in September I realized that teaching people to code is not something that the world needs right now. I realized that the world needs something else. Something more important. The world is full of suffering. There are wars, fear, hate, violence, poverty and a lot of other terrible things. I realized that people can live without these terrible things. I want people to live in harmony, love, happiness and abundance as I do thanks to meditation.
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after a long programming career of 3 years(!) he decided he wants to make the world a better place, meditating.Awesome!
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@Jarry said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
he decided he wants to make the world a better place, meditating.
Well, if he's stopped writing shit that other poor folks have to maintain, he will have made the world a better place.
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@dkf said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Well, if he's stopped writing shit that other poor folks have to maintain, he will have made the world a better place.
or at least a place with less anger
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He been indoctrinated by Buddhists after looking at his webpage. If you are a Buddhist it doesn't seem mad at all.
This is why you should say nothing until a solicitor present when making a statement.Whoops
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@lucas1 said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
This is why you should say nothing until a solicitor present when making a statement.
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to be clear, if he doesn't want to be a programmer, and is happy meditating, it's his life and he should live it the way he likes.
just don't try to make it pass as "i'm making the world a better place"
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@Jarry Dunno how that last line was there that was in a different thread.
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@Jarry said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
just don't try to make it pass as "i'm making the world a better place"
No, he probably is. Just don't think that making everyone else meditate will solve anything. Imagine, if Hitler were calmer and lived more consciously, imagine how much worse the world would have been.
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@boomzilla No space race. Stalin would have started World War 2 and still have won it. Civil Rights movement may not have happened. The British Empire would still exist.
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If Hitler had become a Buddhist before his time, an equally charismatic but more rational Führer would have emerged somewhere to lead his/her people to world domination. Humanity would not have recovered. Oops I think my derailed.
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Some people best contribute to making the world a better place by staying the heck out of the way; sitting in the corner gazing at their navels may well be their greatest possible contribution to humanity.
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Throughout the history people who couldn't cope have been deciding to check out and become monks. Nothing new here.
Hope he has a great life doing his little rituals, talking with trees, or whatever. Let's just not pretend he's doing anyone any favors.
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@gleemonk We can't know if the world wouldn't be better on the long term after an axis victory. Anything could happen. Maybe the commies would win the cold war, and having more resources figure a way to make communism work.
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@fbmac all these commies who would think it was inevitable they'd win after they'd won
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@cartman82 said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Let's just not pretend he's doing anyone any favors.
How do you know that he isn’t doing us a favour by quitting programming?
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Well, he sucks at it. He managed to invoke Godwin's law, even as a monk.
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@Jarry the world is full of stupid people feeling entitled. News at 11.
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@HardwareGeek Reminds me of a sign I've seen at a few shops:
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@Jarry said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
he decided he wants to make the world a better place, meditating.
Just... by himself? Or... is he going to teach people to do it? Or...?
If one guy meditating by himself could solve the world's problems, then Tibet would have had those problems licked 500 years ago.
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@lucas1 said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Stalin would have started World War 2
No fucking way.
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@blakeyrat said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Just... by himself? Or... is he going to teach people to do it? Or...?
Well, if you actually read the article...
So the main reason why I quit programming is to teach people how they can live without fear, anger, hate, judging and others not so nice thoughts and feelings.
And... well:
You cannot change others. You can just change yourself and inspire others to change. Once you can live without fear, anger, hate and judging, others will wonder how you managed it. They will probably want to know how to live happier life. And you will tell them: “I just meditate a few minutes a day. I listen to my inner voice, my heart and do actions according to it. That’s my recipe for happy life“.
So basically, yes. He intends to be teaching. Blogging. Inspiring people. Proselytizing. Whatever you want to call it.
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@blakeyrat said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
No fucking way.
I agree with you. There wasn't much sign of expansionism by the Russians prior to the late '30s (the Baltic states) and that was quite possibly at least partially in response to what Germany was doing. Russia's focus was elsewhere, mostly inwards (purges) and eastwards (Siberian expansion). About the only thing that they would have varied from that for would have been for a good chance at a warm-water port that wasn't strangled by an opposing power such as Turkey or Germany. (The route to Murmansk is anything but a warm water route…)
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@dkf They weren't even building up a military until after Germany built-up. Long after-- heck, remember how surprised they were by Barbarossa?
Their beef was with the Japanese, still. They weren't even thinking about Europe at the time. If they were going to deploy anywhere, it would have been to China to oppose the Japanese invasion there.
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@anotherusername said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
I listen to my inner voice, my heart and do actions according to it.
Great advice if you aren't a schizophrenic.
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Meh.
If a guy finds real happiness, who am I to judge?
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@xaade or any one of a whole host of other mental disorders if "inner voice" isn't literal.
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I find it funny that "follow your heart" is so popular
The Bible warns that "out of the heart flows your life".
Which means that your heart is outputting the result of what you input.
Therefore, if you do "follow your heart", Bible says you just created your own echo chamber.
Also, I don't know where the OP quote author is getting that from. I was sure that Hinduism/Buddhism said the same thing. Denying desire is the path to escaping reincarnation, etc.
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@blakeyrat said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
They weren't even building up a military until after Germany built-up. Long after-- heck, remember how surprised they were by Barbarossa?
Yes and no. The politicians were surprised, the generals weren't. Of course, the generals were also in deeply bad odour at that time (because Stalin was a paranoiac, possibly with good reason) and so were keeping their heads down as much as they could.
On the other hand, the Russians had been moving their heavy industries east for a while (mostly along the Trans-Siberian Railway IIRC, which was a strategic asset of the highest importance). The Barbarossa campaign didn't take out the Russians capacity to wage war for a long time, and that was the key strategic problem with it. Indeed, I think Russia's biggest weakness was their oil supplies from the eastern Caucasus (what's now Azerbaijan) and that was why the battle for Stalingrad was so incredibly hard fought. That was one of the turning points in the war on the Eastern Front (along with Kursk and the failures to capture either Leningrad or Moscow).
So. Politicians caught napping, but got away with it anyway.
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@lucas1 said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
@boomzilla No space race. Stalin would have started World War 2 and still have won it. Civil Rights movement may not have happened. The British Empire would still exist.
Isn't that the theme behind the first Red Alert game?
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@dkf said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
On the other hand, the Russians had been moving their heavy industries east for a while (mostly along the Trans-Siberian Railway IIRC, which was a strategic asset of the highest importance).
But remember: their perceived threat was from the Japanese, not the Germans. So it would have been rational of them to shift their heavy industries eastward anyway.
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@xaade said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Great advice if you aren't a schizophrenic.
But I've mostly integrated all my personalities, so it's OK now, we all speak with one voice (well, except when I don't, but you should be able to tell, and if not I sometimes call it out alongside).
@anotherusername said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
mental disorders if "inner voice" isn't literal.
Depends on what's on the Stage at the moment. Not everything speaks verbally after all, have to be as accommodating as reasonably possible after all...
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@blakeyrat said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
But remember: their perceived threat was from the Japanese, not the Germans. So it would have been rational of them to shift their heavy industries eastward anyway.
I'm not convinced that that was why they did it; I think it was more of a general strategic move, putting key industries well away from all borders. In any case, it was what saved them; if they'd lost their tank factories to Barbarossa, they would have been screwed.
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@Tsaukpaetra Even your inner voice's right to speak is protected by the First Amendment
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@TimeBandit said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Even your inner voice's right to speak is protected by the First Amendment
Ah, but don't you have to prove which inner voice is speaking in order to enact it?
I think if ever any of my personalities would decide that integration was a Bad Thing.... well, I would be in for a Bad Time.
Psh. That war was fought, all the dissenters have been integrated, and you can't harm the system without harming yourself, so mostly everyone behaves. Besides, that's what Censor is for! Though there have been instances where it has failed or otherwise been rendered inoperable...
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@BaconBits said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
Meh.
If a guy finds real happiness, who am I to judge?
You're a member of wtdtwf. All we do is judge.
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@Lorne-Kates Speak for yourself. All I do is win
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@Yamikuronue is that how you see it? How very interesting.
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@boomzilla said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
@Jarry said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
just don't try to make it pass as "i'm making the world a better place"
No, he probably is. Just don't think that making everyone else meditate will solve anything. Imagine, if Hitler were calmer and lived more consciously, imagine how much worse the world would have been.
Yes, fortunately president Trump does not meditate either. World War 3 will be better all for it.
What if this guy now goes and teaches Trump to meditate? someone give him a job in software ASAP, let him write PHP
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@theBread Err kinda. People forget that Stalin invaded Finland and then spit up Poland with Hitler.
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@lucas1 said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
People forget that Stalin invaded Finland and then spit up Poland with Hitler.
That was after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, wasn't it?
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@dkf I don't know without looking everything up again. What I was trying to convey was that Stalin was as bad if not worse than Hitler in some ways (mao I think killed more than both through boneheaded policies).
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@lucas1 Well, I know that the deal with Germany was what convinced the Russians that they could successfully invade Poland and the Baltic states. Let's look up what happened in Finland…
Hmm, complicated. Made doubly so by the fact that there was a continuation of Russian imperial policy (roughly “if it was ever ours, we think it should still be ours”) and that's continued pretty much directly from the 18th century to the present day. Not that other empires are that much different in that respect…
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On the other hand, I know a lawyer who decided to become a sexton after joined the church a few years.
I have no problem on people who decide to leave their career in search for religious personal goal.
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@dse fuck off with that shit, PHP is going through a period of unfucking itself, as per the 7.1 announcement this week following on from 7...
Even we don't want this one...
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@Arantor said in Guy leaves programming career because he wants to change the world... meditating:
@dse fuck off with that shit, PHP is going through a period of unfucking itself, as per the 7.1 announcement this week following on from 7...
Even we don't want this one...
PHP 7: The Unfuckening
(What announcement? Google's not helping me here)
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@Dreikin I guess it's not been "announced" but HN links to an article about it and there's some discussion by folks actually involved in implementing it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11752742
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@lucas1 I didn't think people forgot about Finland. Molotov cocktails are still a thing..though people have forgotten about the Molotov breadbaskets.