sounds like it's 3 hours of coding / day + 5-10 hours a day preparing for and thinking about the problem.
that's 7-12 hours / day if you add in an hour's worth of breaks.
sounds billable to me!
Do you think the card catalog down at the local library is sentient?
Maybe that's not enough data, though!
Is the card catalog for NY Public Library sentient?
Maybe that's still too local.
Is Google sentient?
Everyone with a clue would admit these are all examples of "knowledge"
It's the same parlor trick, with fancier algos. It's not intelligence. It won't produce a human-level AI.
Period.
Everyone I knew ran Linux in the late 90's, I chose to run FreeBSD.
I guarantee you Linux was very influential. Solaris was its only real competitor after a while, and Sun went all Java and screwed up its OS.
If you're working in software development already, all decent employers should encourage you to constantly learn, even if it isn't directly related to the job at hand.
If this isn't the case, it's a huge red flag.
Why hasn't anyone pointed out that, except for function and variable names, almost all of computer code is symbols which were pilfered from . . . arabic???
I could totally see that. However, too many "misspeaks" like this could come across as telegraphing your true feelings.
Sometimes how people say things is even more important than WHAT they say. (other case in point: "Decent" is a highly charged, loaded VALUE JUDGEMENT. I wonder if the Op is "decent"?)
1. ready for marriage
2. has had NO previous boyfriends
3. doesn't drink more than twice a month
4. said girl should not value money at all
5. this girl should be ok a guy who has poor social skills
6. should not have an arbitrary set of rules that excludes nearly 100% of the dating pool
If you find this girl, I guarantee you she is messed up in the head.
Bonus question: How come you said a women "on my side" rather than "by my side"? (is she a gun or a partner?)