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Dang that's a long title. And its a hefty one.
PTSD really only became an official term in the 1980's.
I'm looking mostly at different military generals and their views of their "seasoned" soldiers through history. Anyone from Patton to Julius C-.
When I hear (in 2021), that troops have PTSD and emotional/mental issues following combat, I think "well duh, of course...". But I'm wondering if that sentiment is as prevalent today as it was as, lets say, back in the Punic Wars.
This also wraps in a HUGE question in the history of psychology which is -- "How sympathetic towards emotional/mental disorders has society been since their emergence?"
We can be sympathetic all we want, but the effects of war on the mind play a massive part in how a unit behaves. So how were these effects dealt with and viewed through military history?
If this question seems enormously open ended (there's probably a whole textbook on this question), then I'd love to hear how maybe specific nations or cultures have viewed this issue. Maybe not the entirety of society as a whole.
For anyone answering, I thank you SO much. This has been one of my BIGGEST questions since starting to learn about military history.
If you need me to be more specific, I will gladly try to narrow it down. It's difficult for me to articulate this concept because it is so large, but I would like some guidance on where to start with this subject.
I genuinely feel like Ashton Kutcher is gonna jump out of a bush and tell me I've been Punk'd any moment now. I've been applying for jobs in the past 2-3 months now, and I got a couple interviews that didn't lead to anything.
This past Friday, I was browsing some job listings and noticed one that required knowledge of "React, Angular or other front-end frameworks" and which was suitable for people with little to no experience. As a Vue.js connoisseur, I decided to apply in case Vue.js was part of those "other front-end frameworks". 2-3 hours later, I received a phone call asking if I'd be down for an interview in about 3 hours. The interview lasted about 15 minutes during which the 2 interviewers introduced themselves, then asked me to introduce myself as well and tell them about the languages, frameworks and technologies that I use. Finally they gave me a React task and 3 days to do it. The task was to create a SPA with only 1 view that contains a form with all input types + validation that makes a POST request to hookbin.
I read through the React documentation during the weekend, and since React and Vue.js do share some similarities, I was able to complete the task. As this was my first React project ever, I had my doubts about how good the code was, so I wasn't expecting a call back. I submitted it on Monday, and 2-3 hours after my submission, I received an email invitation for a second interview. To my surprise, during the second interview, they told me they were satisfied with the task and offered me to join them. At that point, I started worrying that maybe I accidentally mislead them into believing that I've got experience with react and I wanted to make sure that there isn't any misunderstanding, so I told them:
"Just to clarify, you do understand that up until now, I've only used Vue.js and in order to complete the task, I just read the React documentation and applied my knowledge from Vue.js. All of my projects use Vue.js and none uses React. That being said, I don't mind learning React as long as you don't mind my current inexperience"
They said that they were completely fine with that. I genuinely started feeling paranoid because it felt... too easy. 2 interviews that lasted about 15 minutes each + a really simple task is all it took. Most job listings ask for shitload of languages/frameworks/technologies, then the interviews are riddled with leetcode, data structures and algorithms questions ( which is fine, just not my forte ). Finally th
... keep reading on reddit ➡Hey, for the last years I started to make this a tradition. On this day, 8 years ago, I started using Anki and have not stopped using it, missing my tasks only for recorded 9 days (of which 1-2 have not been recorded properly). I just recently checked out the first cards I learned because I didn't remember (oh the irony) which cards they had been. I was surprised to find out that my first cards were Russian vocabulary as I attended a language course at university that time and was cramming a few words to keep up with the course but started to learn geography and many things more in the following weeks, months and years.
The last year I haven't learnt too much new stuff besides doing my daily reviews. I try to keep my daily review count below 200 notes, therefore I only learn new cards when I am below 175 reviews for some time. Also I had some busy months in the past year. I got accustomed to the cram-learning mode (learning some cards ahead) and finally did the transition to Anki 2.1 which is finally working properly and has almost all the features and extensions that delayed my transition for some time. I really dig those tag-branches.
Since I usually have lots of questions to be asked I will turn this into a proper AMA again, so go ahead and see you all next year!
Edit: Thank you for that wholesome reward! It is my first reward on reddit, ever!
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I'm considering studying math after my business program because math has become one of my greatest interests. I know I can find answers on the internet, but I'd like to hear it from people from this subreddit.
Thank you in advance!
Edit: Thank you all for the great and interesting answers!
First of all, I just want to say that r/learnprogramming is an AMAZING community. I've learned about so many useful resources from you all and have had so many of my questions answered here. Reading your success stories has also given hope and motivation to get to where I am today. I'm writing this post in hopes that it helps you get where you want to go!
A little about me. I've been working as an account manager in digital advertising for the last 2.5 years (my first job out of college). Tomorrow, I'll be starting a job as an Associate Solutions Engineer at the same company.
Salary
I went from $70k to $105k (NYC). The entry-level salaries are real!!!
Timeline
Highschool
Chinese parents wanted me to learn programming and go into CS. I didn't want to be a fucking nerd so my dumbass decided to skip out on the programming classes my highschool graciously offered. I regret this so much haha.
Sometime in 2018
Learned basic HTML and CSS because I wanted to build a food blog and didn't like Squarespace templates. Turns out I hated writing a food blog but enjoyed learning to code.
Sept 2019
Went on vacation and did some soul searching. Realized I didn't want to do the account management work for the rest of my life, so decided to switch careers early. That bit of coding from 2018 gave me the inspiration to do more discovery. I talked to engineers at my company and found out that many of them switched careers by going to a bootcamp. Started looking into it and doing the Codesmith and Hack Reactor pre-courses.
Mar 2020
My company was about to announce an account manager → solutions engineer transfer program, where they sponsored you to go to bootcamp. I was waiting for this, then the pandemic hit. This was scrapped. I was sad. However I decided that paying $20k and losing my financial security in the middle of a pandemic was a bad idea, so I decided to stay and just self-study until going to a bootcamp made sense again.
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Completed various online courses (will link resources below) and personal projects. Around Sept of 2020, I gained the confidence in my ability to learn programming and decided to self study all the way.
Nov 2020 - March 2021
Started writing Google apps scripts to automate things in my account management job. Started building little tools for my team. Eventually started building more legit tools that caught the attention of other orgs, including the one I'm going to be joining tomorrow.
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That, or you know you’re right but can’t bring all the details together at once in your mind...
日本語勉強中！普通の日本語の勉強はあまり面白いと思うけど、親父ギャグの勉強が超楽しい。教えてください(^_^) (I'm studying Japanese. Normal Japanese study isn't that fun for me, but studying puns (oyaji gyagu) is really fun. Please teach me!) たとえば:
- マイケルジャクソンの好きな色は何ですか？ (What's Michael Jackson's favorite color?) アオー！(blue)
- 新幹線の性別はなに？男？女？ (What's the bullet train's gender, male or female?) 男。エキを飛ばすから。(Male...because it skips train stations. "Eki" is also fluid, and "tobasu" can be slang for cum, so yeah...) ボーナス:英語のダジャレ！ Why couldn't the bike stand on it's own? (なぜ自転車は1人で立てない？) Because it's too tired. (疲れすぎだから。／タイヤ2個あるから。)
I've always lived in Brussels, and unfortunately, my parents never really made me visit the rest of Belgium.During my childhood, I never had any flemish friend, so at school I wasn't paying attention to my flemish lessons.
During covid, I took the time to explore the flemish part but also wallonia.Damn, what a beautiful country we have !
I'm know very ashamed of myself that, even though I studied Nederlands during 13 yo, I'm still not able to speak it at all (my brain just deleted everything because I wasn't interested).If I was fluent, I think I would have moved some years to a flemish city, maybe Antwerpen or Gent.Of course, I could still learn it, but tbh right now I'm more focused on 2 other languages, and I already know that I don't want to spend my whole life in Belgium...
However, I'd like to say that our governement should do things to create a link between the flemish and the french. At highschool, maybe we should have at least 10 activities, each year where we bring together students from a flemish city and students from a french city. Maybe meeting people from the "other side", becoming friends with them, discovering their city etc would motivate them to master the language (dutch or french).
Anyways, if you're a french-native speaker, and you're still in highschool, pay attention to your dutch lessons, even if you don't find the language attractive, don't worry you'll start to like it while chilling with some flemish dudes. It's actually a fun language to speak.Yeah yeah, you can speak English with them, but trust me the connexion will be stronger if you speak in flemish.
byee
Edit : wow, I wasn't expecting this post to get so many comments and votes ! I just wanted to share how I felt after I becoming friend with several syrian refugees that in just a few years, have mastered Dutch, but had also a very good knowledge of English and French. I felt ashmed of myself.
Also, when I started to meet lots of fun flemish people and visiting some cities in vlaanderen, I was like "dang, what would my teen age had look liked if I was also chilling with them, going to their city etc... ?" I'm sure I would know more about life right now, I would have more clients, I would have more friends etc...
I'm sure that if I study the language weekly, in just a year a looot of what I learned at school will come back, and maybe in just 2 years I could speak it fluently.
I first want to try living in other countries, but if future me decide to come back i
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Like I was actually gonna study that bullshit on my own time. Yeah right.
Yes! I did it, and I am also fasting for Ramadan! Stay hard!
The ongoing Derek Chauvin trial and unrest in Minnesota have brought it to mind. These same Mormons have no trouble worshipping Joseph Smith, even though he was arrested more than three dozen times and even attempted becoming a fugitive. (Before we go further, yes, I do view the manner in which Mormons revere Smith to be WORSHIP). The cognitive dissonance amazes me.
So I'm no expert at it, just a pundit.
Also I'm delirious from staying up all night studying. Puns are REALLY funny when I'm sleep deprived.
Goal: I want to pick up Japanese again, but seriously. I'd like to eventually be able to use it at work with Japanese clients. This would involve speaking, writing (on whiteboards during meetings etc) and of course e-mails.
Current State: I was N3 at best, I'm probably closer to N4 now. Overall, I've retained most of my grammatical knowledge from N3, but my vocab knowledge has waned significantly. In terms of using the language, I'm better at reading, listening and typing (at my own slow pace), but my IRL conversational skills are absolute ass, as well as my kanji writing skills.
Study Background: At college we used Minna No Nihongo Shokyuu 1, 2 and the Intermediate books (Chuukyuu 1). We focused more on reading and writing, which is why my conversational skills hasn't been as strong as I'd liked.
So where do I go from here? I'm currently using Duolingo to refresh my memory and using Google Voice to construct answers on the spot and say sentences out loud, but the progress feels too slow. I would love to be at business level by next year.
I'm considering getting an online tutor to help me practice my speaking once a week. But not sure what else I could do to help speed up the process.
Should I go back and re-study Minna no Nihongo? Should I use other books to keep it fresh? Would love any advice on how I could structure my studies over the next year. 🙏
Obviously there are limitations to this, but dropping out with only a few accredited hours remaining could be more financially burdening than just finishing given the potential loss of future revenue. I know for a fact my company weighs in this criteria when creating an offer for positions that dont require a college education.
