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Definitely. Except in my case, I'm right. You'll see.

Why do you assume that would be the case? Private schools already exist, and without the monopolistic domination of the market by government, they would expand to fill the void. Unless you think parents don't care about their kids education, there would be a strong market demand for thorough...

Just do what I do. Remain anti-social and aloof, but look at every interaction as an experiment. Participate in the social rituals, not because you are really interested in participating, but to learn about how they work. Basically everybody else is a lab rat. Do different things and see how...

Well, it's really an essay, but since it's in a novel, she used the device of having the character hijack the national radio broadcasts and read it (it took three hours in novel time), hence "speech". Besides, if you already have one blockbuster novel under your belt that was made into a movie...

Fernando, that happens to me all the time. Except now I know so many of the existing theories, I'm starting to come up with some that have a chance of being truly new. Well, maybe. Oblivious, pick up a copy of Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. It's 1100 pages, but I suspect you won't mind the...

For some reason, I find that a perverse way of looking at it. ;) I've been looking at Paul Graham as well. I like his style, and need to find more time to get involved in Arc.

I was just about to make the same comment, though I was going to leave Rand out of it and just call it rational self-interest. Oblivious, that's not narcissism you're describing, it's what I think is the healthiest and only morally consistent way to be. And leadership is often a latent...

There's a very good aptitude test here: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/test(week-0).doc and a writeup of the premises behind it here: http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/ This test is designed to judge whether a person's basic mindset is conducive to programming...

Python is based from C, but it's not a C purist kind of thing, it's the hybrid of duck typing with strong typing. The semantics of the language are such that duck typing is not expected, and so problems can result, and when they do, they are very hard to diagnose. It's not a big deal, just...

Python doesn't scale very well to large projects. Though I haven't used it in a few years, and I've heard that it's gotten better, its OOP features are a pain, and the whitespace-sensitivity plants all kinds of land mines once the logic gets to a certain level of complexity. The duck-typing is...

Then I'm stumped. The pattern does look familiar, though.

Sure they fit. Just add "Philosophy" to the section name. Seriously. Though I suspect many here would prefer it be relegated to Siberia. So pick a topic (preferably narrower than "God" or "Metaphysics"), and start a thread, whydontchya?

I don't think feeling a sense of accomplishment is a relative thing. It's a go board, or part of one? I think that is a named pattern, but I'm not familiar enough to be sure or to know which one.

It has to be earned, something people aren't being taught in school anymore. Set some small, achievable goals and work conscientiously to meet them. Succeed or fail, working toward something and making any progress at all is a big esteem booster. And even if you fail, if you learn even one...

I think that's called a sense of accomplishment. Enjoy it, it's one of the most valuable things you'll ever have. Did you get good grades, or, short of that, did you at least learn something?

Well, it was for a programming job in a four-man IT department at a fashion clothing retail chain. I worked there two years, and know for a fact they don't have the knowledge or experience to properly judge IT requirements. Using an MBTI was probably their best bet. It worked out OK all...

I don't think that's too uncommon in INTP's. I've certainly been that way. Look, "proving" that someone is an INTP is a red herring. The purpose of the MBTIs is to try to understand the behavior that people actually exhibit, not to classify a person and then assume that he will always act a...

A keen interest in MB is itself a very INTP thing. Not exclusively, but interest seems most strong among INTP's (aside from those who use it strictly as a tool, such as HR types, who are rarely INTP, or NT of any variety). Add to that... who would want to be an INTP if they are not? We're...

That's an interesting question, particularly since I'm one of them. But it probably deserves it's own thread, and I don't want to perpetuate a threadjack on my first day here.

I'll leave out a lot, because I can never think of them all at once, but... Atlas Shrugged (read it six times and never skipped the speech) or anything by Ayn Rand. Though I bet you could have guessed that. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Heinlein A Memory of Whiteness - Kim Stanley Robinson...

I think just wanting to do so is proof enough.

I work with one now, and another who is ENTP with a borderline E, so he's close. The three of us have been talking a lot about this, and have been trying to learn how to be J when we need to. The ENTP guy has been fairly successful at it. I have another friend who is. One of my best friends in...

Name: Kyle Where are you from? The Desert How old are you? 40 ish What's your gender? Male How did you find out that you were INTP or other type? I was asked questions at a job interview that sounded like a test, so I Googled "personality test" and found that the MB...