Don't laugh. I've done it. It took hours for the key imprints to go away, too...:(
My first thought reading your comment was that the indenting of nested comments had already stopped, and yours was a reply to your brother post, "s/nose/dick/ those split keyboards are for computer sex." ^_^ Much more amusing, really.
In Diebold's case, I'm not willing to ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.
Personally, I'd go Occam's Razor on that issue and say that there's been a few hundred more years of mechanical voting fraud to fall back on rather than messing with software. Why do you think the dead rise again every few years to vote?
The only reason that asshole-who-drives-like-a-Swiss is not going slower than most of the traffic is because he's in the left lane holding back that other traffic, so the cannot be faster than him (well, until they become sufficiently pissed off to pass him on the right, that is...)
Unless, of course, the people in the righthand lane are going even slower. If the speed limit is 65, and the righthand lane is going 60 (aged drivers, wide load, frequent righthand turns, whatever), I'm going to get into the lefthand lane and drive maybe 70. It's faster than the speed limit and I'm passing. If there's cop cars parked alongside the road monitoring things, I may even stick to 65 itself to avoid confrontation. In either case, if someone comes zooming up behind me at 90, I'm not going to stomp the accelerator or worry myself over merging into the (much slower) righthand lane just so that he can keep going that much over the limit. Although, in the case of the cop cars, I'd be tempted to let him by and serve as cop-bait...
I try to drive sensibly, and I have no problem exceeding the speed limit when it's an issue of safety (going 55 when everyone else is going 65, even if the limit is 55, is just plain dumb) but I can and will sit on the speed limit if all that's at risk is whether you'll be shaving 5 minutes off of your two hour commute.
Sounds like someone's a little bitter here. My only question to you is whether your target is on the mark. Personally, I've found that the old people on the road are the ones much more likely to be cruising in the lefthand lane at 10 MPH under the speed limit and merging at low speed. It's a simple matter of the reflexes and the like slowing, I hear. Teenagers are the ones more likely to be heading through traffic at high speed, swerving through the cruising and passing lanes both so as to avoid getting stuck at only going 10 MPH over the speed limit in the passing lane.
As for misuse turn signals, that's endemic to every age group, although the younger ends tend more towards not using them and the older ones to not turning them back off.
A lab at SFU is just starting a joint venture with the RCMP. It's in the early stages and is still ramping up. I believe projects with Criminology have begun.
I don't know whether it says something about me or about Slashdot, but I initially read that as "A lab at STFU is just starting a joint venture with the RCMP."
What's the point of email if you have to call?
Reminds me of an anecdote I read in a computer magazine:
My wife and her sister were always gabbing long-distance over the phone for hours at a time, so I decided to save some money by bringing my wife into the 21st century by introducing her to email. It was an uphill battle, teaching her about the difference between "to" and "cc," let alone "bcc" but I got her using it and now she emails her sister every day. And... calls her sister before sending the email to inform her that the email is coming, calls her a bit later to discuss the email contents, and then afterwards to follow up. I'd estimate our phone bills have just about doubled since I introduced her to email. Next time, I'm just going to keep my damn mouth shut.
Exactly, and if another $*%&# outlook user books me in another $(%^*# meeting without even ASKING me if I'm available, or if it's a good time, I think America is going to hear about epic scale workplace violence.
I was about to comment on the situation of them ignoring established appointments when setting up meetings, but then I realized that that's still a bit of a double-edged sword. I've had situations where people have ignored the fact that I already have an appointment listed for the time slot they've picked. I've had situations where I've scheduled meetings and then wound up missing half of the people because they had appointments not listed on their calendar. I've also had people who've gone beyond reasonable limits and assume that unless you explicitly calendar lunch in there, it's perfectly acceptable to book you in for nine hours of meeting in the day with some of them outside of your working hours.
Meeting requests and being able to crosscheck against other peoples' schedules is handy, but it's far from foolproof. I will admit that adding the conference rooms as "required resources" has saved a lot of trouble for us here. Now if only we could teach a few more people to actually use the system...
Funny to read all of these responses which are basically parroting the article and its stated reasons. Sad thing is, most of them will probably rocket up to the top with +5 Informative or +5 Insightful mods as people with mod points who haven't read TFA come in.
While Email is an excellent collaboration medium in a lot of ways, it still suffers from a bit of the lag that snail mail always did. Admittedly the lag time is down to hours or even minutes rather than days, but you're still faced with the need to cover a lot of ground in your letters, hoping to cover all possible avenues of conversation. *grin* And there's still a hefty amount of people in offices out there who will duly print out and file a copy of your email asking if they're available for lunch.
So while Email remains an extremely useful tool, I think most people are moving on to some form of IM or another, for the sake of speed and immediacy. True, everyone has a proprietary solution to the situation of IM, but I think there are enough aggregating clients out there like Gaim and Trillian that offer most of the functionality (you know, like chatting through the software rather than trying to share photo albums and the like) that people are finding common ground. Now if only they could learn how to spell...
Yeah. It's pretty damn ineffective, for one. What typically happens is that a mob will pick the weakest person they can find, subsume their dark impulses upon that victim, label him as the problem, and walk off morally satisfied.
Speak all you want. But when I ask you to shut up and stop bothering me, because I do not share your sense of what is sin and what isn't, have the decency to shut up. In the US, I used to think that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution gave me the right to not believe I had an everlasting soul I was endangering by looking at pictures of naked women.
"The right to wave your fist ends at my face." I agree that one can't forcibly restrain you from viewing porn. In general, what happens is that it's a matter of impact on the community. The community has every right to decide that there oughtn't to be an adult book store in the area and deal with it legally. It's a matter of protecting you and yours. In the same manner, you have a right to protest such actions and assemble your own group. These are the legal rights we're given in regard to freedom of speech and they've been discussed in numerous court cases. Personally, so long as these sites don't target people who aren't looking for what they're selling, I generally don't have a problem with internet porn. I don't force my beliefs on others although I'll speak freely. However, I do agree that they shouldn't be using fraudulent means such that someone looking for information on My Little Pony winds up with beastiality sites. I also feel people have the right to protest things like adult book stores because they have an impact on the community. As for the rest, I'll speak my piece and leave you to decide your own conscience.
Religious people don't just want to remove [insert_immoral_action_here] from their own life. They beleive it is their sacred duty to prevent everyone else from doing it as well.
While I know that you're trying to be all biting and sarcastic, you're more or less right regarding Christians. Part of scripture states that if a brother commits sin and we know of it, but we do not speak to help him mend his ways, we too are liable for his sin. I can't speak as to other religions though.
Regardless of the law everyone's agreed to live under.
*shrug* That's been an issue ever since Jesus did that line about "Give unto Caesar what is due Caesar. Give unto God what is due God" when asked whether taxes should be paid. I personally see this type of battle as more of a working within the law compared to, say, burning down the local Lion's Den to try to prevent the spread of pornography.
I'll admit to only the scanty knowledge from reading the article, but if Microsoft really is being denied proper legal defense, that is an issue. Just because someone employs criminal practices doesn't mean you should allow criminal practices back at them. That way leads legal vigalantism and rubber-hose beatings. I personally don't like Microsoft, but the right to a fair trial is something espoused by the EU, right?
I'm not a huge proponent of all of the XP stuff, but the built-in test cases has always seemed a good idea. I've found things like Junit to be hugely helpful -- it's really nice to have code check your code. A co-worker just started using it because he found a real need to have his code verified after new changes/refactorings so unexpected things didn't break -- he was making changes that he didn't realize would impact other things and needed a sanity check.
I know. We're getting off of the topic of pair programming, but I've got my stump when it comes to unit testing. Unit testing is handy but it is far from a panacea and it can lead to serious problems if you're not careful. First of all, unit testing will only test what you tell it to test. If it's not covered in your tests, it's obviously not being tested. Secondly, it's tempting to run tests and then fill in the "correct" answers for the tests, but if your initial code is wrong, all of your subsequent code will be tested for the wrong values. Anyhow, useful tool, but be careful.
the less-skilled team member can do the bulk of the typing, which is much more effective for learning than *watching* a more skilled perosn work; the more skilled person can be giving instructions, or working on problems that will come up later in the code
I always kind of preferred it the other direction with the more experienced person at the keyboard. Unless both of you are good listeners, good typers, and in general have a very tight bond (as you and your friend likely do), progress will be slowed by misunderstandings and errors as the person navigating suggests code and the driver types out what he thinks he hears, not what's being said. ^_^ And given programmer communication skills, sometimes the problem is that the driver is writing exactly what's said, not what's meant.
So long as the person driving at least does a running commentary on what they're doing and why, the navigator will be picking up on things as they go and by forcing the driver to explain himself and answer questions, he'll be paying all the more attention to what he's doing and why.
If you follow that path - each working on different areas - you are no longer practicing pair programming. You are just teammates working on different portions of the product.
While I think the GP missed the point, it actually does work in a way. While you wouldn't want to be working seperately, pair programming is all about one person driving (running the keyboard and generally the main algorithm) and one person watching and commenting. By having the person most experienced with an area driving, you still move at a decent clip, the person watching learns a fair amount by watching and listening, the watcher often catches a lot of little syntax bugs, and by being forced to give at least a running commentary of what they're doing, the driver is learning too.
I've recently had the experience of doing pair programming with someone just out of college, unfamiliar with the work we were doing and unfamiliar with the language and it still worked out. Admittedly, he hasn't driven much yet as he's still getting up to speed, but he's got a decent grasp of the architecture now and he's starting to get the language too.
Actually, I'd be worried if dupes were tagged as such when they're put up; if the editor realizes it's a dupe, why's it up in the first place?
Users add the tags, not the editors.
i guess it's kind of like veil where not do you live to be slaughtered, but perhaps also live bad life too.
Anybody else flashing back to the Dish of the Day from HHGttG?
You know you're old when you remember when bacon, eggs, and sunshine were good for you And incidentally, they're already back to saying that eggs are good for you...
I too find the flip-flopping of nutrition to be vexing. Myself, I manage by eating whatever I'm craving and I try to eat in large quantities and with variety. *wry grin* That said, I only pull off the large quantities because my family has a metabolism more in line for a mongoose, but eh...
I'm a personal believer in that if you eat what your body tells you you want, you only eat when you're hungry, and you get moderate exercise, you should be fine. Maybe it shaves 5 years off of your life due to it not being an ideal diet. It will probably add another 5 years due to the lack of stress of not worrying about your diet and you'll enjoy yourself a lot more.
Sir, as someone who started out with bulletin-board systems and Lynx, I salute you. If it weren't for the fact that Slashdot hasn't given me mod points in months (despite heavy metamoderation), I would be modding you up now. Wonderful dry presentation of wit too.
Alright, you've identified my situation exactly. Now, what the hell do I do about it?!
Honestly, I don't really know. I know some people who slogged their way through a few years of a job in their field so as to pay off college loan debt and raise enough capital to make another try at school. My brother took the route of moonlighting in a job that he does enjoy (bartending). I do wish you the best of luck though.
Not entirely the same situation, but a similar thing happened to a friend of mine while we were in college. At the career placement center, where he worked, a wastebasket caught on fire, so they called 911. And got routed to Public Safety, the college's security office. And were immediately put on hold. By the time the dispatcher got back to them, someone had put out the fire.
As regards some of the people commenting in the thread quoted above that there was likely substantial delay in the dialing of 911, consider also that, under stress, it can take people a fair amount of time just to get those three digits right. In an emergency, most people get fairly clumsy with fine motor movements, one of those reasons that those personal safety devices can be pretty useless in a mugging situation unless you've trained yourself over and over again to pull it out without having to think about it.
I don't find this surprising at all. My friend's daughter started learning sign language before 10 months. At her first birthday she constructed a novel and meaningful sentence in sign. She, apparently, was tired and overstimulated and started telling people to "Please bye-bye."
As I understand it, a lot of this is that the motor control required for basic sign is simpler than the finer motor control of vocalization and therefore the child can participate in language at a much earlier age. At one point Baby Sign was well on its way to becoming the next flashcards, although I don't know how far it's progressed since.
Her second word was "no" because most of the objects she wanted were not age appropriate.... "No" became a real problem because she got to the point where she would unbuckle herself from the stroller and take off. Pigtails flying, we'd yell, "Come back!". She'd yell, "NO!!!!"
No is a particularly favorite word for kids around that age. Basically, realizing that they can say "no" is an important step in self-identity. They realize that while your parents may believe one thing, they can believe another. ^_^ Also, you generally get more attention for saying "no" than "yes" to a request, so that may factor in too.
When I was in university, I noticed that there were two types of students who did well: those who were very smart, and those who were not so bright, but worked very hard. While I often envied the first group, I always respected the second group more. When it comes to life outside the university, I'm willing to bet that, as a whole, the hard workers will end up doing better than the naturally gifted ones.
The naturally gifted people can have a harder time making the transition than the hard workers, but it's not unsurmountable. Mainly, I've noticed that the gifted often have trouble figuring out what they want to do. (When my brother took the ACTs, he scored 33-35 on every section and the area where it recommended areas of study translated those even results to "You have no particular talent in any area.") Often, they're the ones who spend years in an undeclared major, or switch frequently. Or, more sadly, they lock themselves in for four years of a degree, then realize it wasn't what they wanted.
The other big problem for gifted people is adjusting to difficulty. You can see this some with bright kids who go to college, realizing that they've gone from being the big fish in a small pond to being a midsize fish in an even bigger pond. And then, there are some who still breeze through college without effort. When they're confronted with a situation which requires them to buckle down, they may not find they have the skills for it whether it's holding down their job or maintaining a marriage.
My feeling is that what's important for bright kids, at any level, is to keep learning no matter how hard the teachers work to prevent it, and to never settle for just coasting by when you know you can do better.
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Don't laugh. I've done it. It took hours for the key imprints to go away, too... :(
My first thought reading your comment was that the indenting of nested comments had already stopped, and yours was a reply to your brother post, "s/nose/dick/ those split keyboards are for computer sex." ^_^ Much more amusing, really.
In Diebold's case, I'm not willing to ascribe to incompetence that which can be explained by malice.
Personally, I'd go Occam's Razor on that issue and say that there's been a few hundred more years of mechanical voting fraud to fall back on rather than messing with software. Why do you think the dead rise again every few years to vote?
Unless, of course, the people in the righthand lane are going even slower. If the speed limit is 65, and the righthand lane is going 60 (aged drivers, wide load, frequent righthand turns, whatever), I'm going to get into the lefthand lane and drive maybe 70. It's faster than the speed limit and I'm passing. If there's cop cars parked alongside the road monitoring things, I may even stick to 65 itself to avoid confrontation. In either case, if someone comes zooming up behind me at 90, I'm not going to stomp the accelerator or worry myself over merging into the (much slower) righthand lane just so that he can keep going that much over the limit. Although, in the case of the cop cars, I'd be tempted to let him by and serve as cop-bait...
I try to drive sensibly, and I have no problem exceeding the speed limit when it's an issue of safety (going 55 when everyone else is going 65, even if the limit is 55, is just plain dumb) but I can and will sit on the speed limit if all that's at risk is whether you'll be shaving 5 minutes off of your two hour commute.
As for misuse turn signals, that's endemic to every age group, although the younger ends tend more towards not using them and the older ones to not turning them back off.
A lab at SFU is just starting a joint venture with the RCMP. It's in the early stages and is still ramping up. I believe projects with Criminology have begun.
I don't know whether it says something about me or about Slashdot, but I initially read that as "A lab at STFU is just starting a joint venture with the RCMP."
What's the point of email if you have to call?
Reminds me of an anecdote I read in a computer magazine:
My wife and her sister were always gabbing long-distance over the phone for hours at a time, so I decided to save some money by bringing my wife into the 21st century by introducing her to email. It was an uphill battle, teaching her about the difference between "to" and "cc," let alone "bcc" but I got her using it and now she emails her sister every day. And... calls her sister before sending the email to inform her that the email is coming, calls her a bit later to discuss the email contents, and then afterwards to follow up. I'd estimate our phone bills have just about doubled since I introduced her to email. Next time, I'm just going to keep my damn mouth shut.
I was about to comment on the situation of them ignoring established appointments when setting up meetings, but then I realized that that's still a bit of a double-edged sword. I've had situations where people have ignored the fact that I already have an appointment listed for the time slot they've picked. I've had situations where I've scheduled meetings and then wound up missing half of the people because they had appointments not listed on their calendar. I've also had people who've gone beyond reasonable limits and assume that unless you explicitly calendar lunch in there, it's perfectly acceptable to book you in for nine hours of meeting in the day with some of them outside of your working hours.
Meeting requests and being able to crosscheck against other peoples' schedules is handy, but it's far from foolproof. I will admit that adding the conference rooms as "required resources" has saved a lot of trouble for us here. Now if only we could teach a few more people to actually use the system...
While Email is an excellent collaboration medium in a lot of ways, it still suffers from a bit of the lag that snail mail always did. Admittedly the lag time is down to hours or even minutes rather than days, but you're still faced with the need to cover a lot of ground in your letters, hoping to cover all possible avenues of conversation. *grin* And there's still a hefty amount of people in offices out there who will duly print out and file a copy of your email asking if they're available for lunch.
So while Email remains an extremely useful tool, I think most people are moving on to some form of IM or another, for the sake of speed and immediacy. True, everyone has a proprietary solution to the situation of IM, but I think there are enough aggregating clients out there like Gaim and Trillian that offer most of the functionality (you know, like chatting through the software rather than trying to share photo albums and the like) that people are finding common ground. Now if only they could learn how to spell...
Yeah. It's pretty damn ineffective, for one. What typically happens is that a mob will pick the weakest person they can find, subsume their dark impulses upon that victim, label him as the problem, and walk off morally satisfied.
Speak all you want. But when I ask you to shut up and stop bothering me, because I do not share your sense of what is sin and what isn't, have the decency to shut up. In the US, I used to think that the 1st Amendment to the Constitution gave me the right to not believe I had an everlasting soul I was endangering by looking at pictures of naked women.
"The right to wave your fist ends at my face." I agree that one can't forcibly restrain you from viewing porn. In general, what happens is that it's a matter of impact on the community. The community has every right to decide that there oughtn't to be an adult book store in the area and deal with it legally. It's a matter of protecting you and yours. In the same manner, you have a right to protest such actions and assemble your own group. These are the legal rights we're given in regard to freedom of speech and they've been discussed in numerous court cases. Personally, so long as these sites don't target people who aren't looking for what they're selling, I generally don't have a problem with internet porn. I don't force my beliefs on others although I'll speak freely. However, I do agree that they shouldn't be using fraudulent means such that someone looking for information on My Little Pony winds up with beastiality sites. I also feel people have the right to protest things like adult book stores because they have an impact on the community. As for the rest, I'll speak my piece and leave you to decide your own conscience.
While I know that you're trying to be all biting and sarcastic, you're more or less right regarding Christians. Part of scripture states that if a brother commits sin and we know of it, but we do not speak to help him mend his ways, we too are liable for his sin. I can't speak as to other religions though.
Regardless of the law everyone's agreed to live under.
*shrug* That's been an issue ever since Jesus did that line about "Give unto Caesar what is due Caesar. Give unto God what is due God" when asked whether taxes should be paid. I personally see this type of battle as more of a working within the law compared to, say, burning down the local Lion's Den to try to prevent the spread of pornography.
I'll admit to only the scanty knowledge from reading the article, but if Microsoft really is being denied proper legal defense, that is an issue. Just because someone employs criminal practices doesn't mean you should allow criminal practices back at them. That way leads legal vigalantism and rubber-hose beatings. I personally don't like Microsoft, but the right to a fair trial is something espoused by the EU, right?
No. People accuse MS of making shit. Big difference, that.
I know. We're getting off of the topic of pair programming, but I've got my stump when it comes to unit testing. Unit testing is handy but it is far from a panacea and it can lead to serious problems if you're not careful. First of all, unit testing will only test what you tell it to test. If it's not covered in your tests, it's obviously not being tested. Secondly, it's tempting to run tests and then fill in the "correct" answers for the tests, but if your initial code is wrong, all of your subsequent code will be tested for the wrong values. Anyhow, useful tool, but be careful.
I always kind of preferred it the other direction with the more experienced person at the keyboard. Unless both of you are good listeners, good typers, and in general have a very tight bond (as you and your friend likely do), progress will be slowed by misunderstandings and errors as the person navigating suggests code and the driver types out what he thinks he hears, not what's being said. ^_^ And given programmer communication skills, sometimes the problem is that the driver is writing exactly what's said, not what's meant.
So long as the person driving at least does a running commentary on what they're doing and why, the navigator will be picking up on things as they go and by forcing the driver to explain himself and answer questions, he'll be paying all the more attention to what he's doing and why.
While I think the GP missed the point, it actually does work in a way. While you wouldn't want to be working seperately, pair programming is all about one person driving (running the keyboard and generally the main algorithm) and one person watching and commenting. By having the person most experienced with an area driving, you still move at a decent clip, the person watching learns a fair amount by watching and listening, the watcher often catches a lot of little syntax bugs, and by being forced to give at least a running commentary of what they're doing, the driver is learning too.
I've recently had the experience of doing pair programming with someone just out of college, unfamiliar with the work we were doing and unfamiliar with the language and it still worked out. Admittedly, he hasn't driven much yet as he's still getting up to speed, but he's got a decent grasp of the architecture now and he's starting to get the language too.
Actually, I'd be worried if dupes were tagged as such when they're put up; if the editor realizes it's a dupe, why's it up in the first place?
Users add the tags, not the editors.
i guess it's kind of like veil where not do you live to be slaughtered, but perhaps also live bad life too.
Anybody else flashing back to the Dish of the Day from HHGttG?
And incidentally, they're already back to saying that eggs are good for you...
I too find the flip-flopping of nutrition to be vexing. Myself, I manage by eating whatever I'm craving and I try to eat in large quantities and with variety. *wry grin* That said, I only pull off the large quantities because my family has a metabolism more in line for a mongoose, but eh...
I'm a personal believer in that if you eat what your body tells you you want, you only eat when you're hungry, and you get moderate exercise, you should be fine. Maybe it shaves 5 years off of your life due to it not being an ideal diet. It will probably add another 5 years due to the lack of stress of not worrying about your diet and you'll enjoy yourself a lot more.
Sir, as someone who started out with bulletin-board systems and Lynx, I salute you. If it weren't for the fact that Slashdot hasn't given me mod points in months (despite heavy metamoderation), I would be modding you up now. Wonderful dry presentation of wit too.
Alright, you've identified my situation exactly. Now, what the hell do I do about it?!
Honestly, I don't really know. I know some people who slogged their way through a few years of a job in their field so as to pay off college loan debt and raise enough capital to make another try at school. My brother took the route of moonlighting in a job that he does enjoy (bartending). I do wish you the best of luck though.
As regards some of the people commenting in the thread quoted above that there was likely substantial delay in the dialing of 911, consider also that, under stress, it can take people a fair amount of time just to get those three digits right. In an emergency, most people get fairly clumsy with fine motor movements, one of those reasons that those personal safety devices can be pretty useless in a mugging situation unless you've trained yourself over and over again to pull it out without having to think about it.
I don't find this surprising at all. My friend's daughter started learning sign language before 10 months. At her first birthday she constructed a novel and meaningful sentence in sign. She, apparently, was tired and overstimulated and started telling people to "Please bye-bye."
As I understand it, a lot of this is that the motor control required for basic sign is simpler than the finer motor control of vocalization and therefore the child can participate in language at a much earlier age. At one point Baby Sign was well on its way to becoming the next flashcards, although I don't know how far it's progressed since.
Her second word was "no" because most of the objects she wanted were not age appropriate .... "No" became a real problem because she got to the point where she would unbuckle herself from the stroller and take off. Pigtails flying, we'd yell, "Come back!". She'd yell, "NO!!!!"
No is a particularly favorite word for kids around that age. Basically, realizing that they can say "no" is an important step in self-identity. They realize that while your parents may believe one thing, they can believe another. ^_^ Also, you generally get more attention for saying "no" than "yes" to a request, so that may factor in too.
The naturally gifted people can have a harder time making the transition than the hard workers, but it's not unsurmountable. Mainly, I've noticed that the gifted often have trouble figuring out what they want to do. (When my brother took the ACTs, he scored 33-35 on every section and the area where it recommended areas of study translated those even results to "You have no particular talent in any area.") Often, they're the ones who spend years in an undeclared major, or switch frequently. Or, more sadly, they lock themselves in for four years of a degree, then realize it wasn't what they wanted.
The other big problem for gifted people is adjusting to difficulty. You can see this some with bright kids who go to college, realizing that they've gone from being the big fish in a small pond to being a midsize fish in an even bigger pond. And then, there are some who still breeze through college without effort. When they're confronted with a situation which requires them to buckle down, they may not find they have the skills for it whether it's holding down their job or maintaining a marriage.
My feeling is that what's important for bright kids, at any level, is to keep learning no matter how hard the teachers work to prevent it, and to never settle for just coasting by when you know you can do better.