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Areth; Ummm... Hi?
Topic Started: Jul 28 2009, 11:34 PM (264 Views)
areth
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Umm... hi.

Name: Michael

Age: 14 (going into Freshman)

Location: Maine

Likes: Learning (my interests include but are not limited to: physics, psychology, biology, philosophy, ethics, chemistry, microbiology, robotics, computer science, programming, writing, reading, surfing the internet, sailing, camping, hiking, fishing, hunting, shooting, guns, blowing stuff up with explosives, and making explosives), my friends, and learning how to do new things... oh, yeah, and I like cars. I'm saving up for a used pickup when I turn 15 (that's when we get our permits here)

Dislikes: Lots of stuff... being surrounded by idiots who can't tell a joke from his mothers... well, I won't go there. Hypocrites (most people I meet, in other words), the government, laws, taxes that go into arresting us and putting us into pens with other "criminals" whose crime is ignorance of the law. There's lots of other stuff...

Favorite Quote: "Juridically they are both equal [the worker and capitalist]; but economically the worker is the serf of the capitalist . . . thereby the worker sells his person and his liberty for a given time. The worker is in the position of a serf because this terrible threat of starvation which daily hangs over his head and over his family, will force him to accept any conditions imposed by the gainful calculations of the capitalist, the industrialist, the employer. . . .The worker always has the right to leave his employer, but has he the means to do so? No, he does it in order to sell himself to another employer. He is driven to it by the same hunger which forces him to sell himself to the first employer. Thus the worker's liberty . . . is only a theoretical freedom, lacking any means for its possible realisation, and consequently it is only a fictitious liberty, an utter falsehood. The truth is that the whole life of the worker is simply a continuous and dismaying succession of terms of serfdom -- voluntary from the juridical point of view but compulsory from an economic sense -- broken up by momentarily brief interludes of freedom accompanied by starvation; in other words, it is real slavery." -Bakunin

Programming: I can do some basic HTML and I'm trying to learn Python.

More about me: Despite what you might think, I'm actually not an extremist that blows up buildings. I do believe in anarchy, which is not what most people think it is. It is the absence of government, but not chaos. Anarchists all have different beliefs but I believe that peace is the answer. Government is bad because authority figures often abuse power and see his subjects as pawns for the "greater good". This means war, with loss of the lives of our brothers and sisters, friends and family. And it means that we will die for something that we don't know about, or could solve through peaceful solutions. With the right system, I believe anarchists could live without government and still provide everything we have today without anyone being a real leader.

Anyways... about me... I love the outdoors and I love learning new things. My interests change around a lot so I've recently taken a strong interest in learning to program. Before that it was learning to lucid dream but that failed horribly. Might keep trying, though.

When I'm older and out of college, I would like to be a professor at a University to pass on my knowledge in the hopes that I'd helped discover something important, no matter how insignificant my part was.

Before I die I want to discover something important myself, that benefits the world. Also, I want to be remembered for it. Not like Einstein was or anything, but I just want my name in there with Tycho Brahe or Skinner where people will read my name hundreds of years from now when they're learning about my discovery in high school. I just don't want to fade away like so many people seem to do when they die.

Anyways, that's me...

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Umm... by the way, I'm not too sure how to program anything at all, really. I can do some basic web design and that's it... I'm going to start learning Python tomorrow, but I have no idea what to do even though I have the tutorial... so, yeah. Anyone want to explain what I should do to learn Python? Thanks if you do.
Edited by areth, Jul 29 2009, 12:17 PM.
"Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all."
--August Spies, Haymarket anarchist
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Darksorrow131

Read the tutorial and play with it a lot - (ab)use the Python interactive prompt to explore things. Whenever you're unsure of something, type it into the interactive prompt and figure it out, etc.
(let loop () (loop))
((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))
(let ((k #f)) (call/cc (lambda (cc) (set! k cc)) (k))
((call/cc call/cc) (call/cc call/cc))

-- Infinite loops are awesome! --
Tell me if you have other awesome infinite loops!
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areth
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Alright, thanks. I'll start on that right after I finish reading The Odyssey for English I. If they keep giving me work like this high school will be a freakin' breeze... Now I'll just be nervous about college.
"Anarchism does not mean bloodshed; it does not mean robbery, arson, etc. These monstrosities are, on the contrary, the characteristic features of capitalism. Anarchism means peace and tranquility to all."
--August Spies, Haymarket anarchist
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Samael88
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Dude, it sure is noticable that you like writing, you almost wrote a book there ^_^

Welcome to Junior Developers, good to see a fellow writer here :D

Here is a small advice for you:
Don't ever think about quitting, be as stubborn as possible, that helped me a lot to get to where I am today ;)

That basically applies for every programming language btw ^_^
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