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How do mathematicians who specialize in pure math earn a living given that there are few, if not zero, practical applications for their brilliant work? Alan Bustany, Trinity Wrangler, Poker Player 42 votes In exactly the same way as scholars of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphics. Or scholars of any number of academic disciplines. As a society I think we do not value the contribution of pure academics highly enough. Not, perhaps, as important as the fact that we undervalue certain professions such as nursing, or overvalue other professions such as CEOs, but an indication nonetheless of the maturity a... Read More » Do Japanese typically dislike Chinese? Ming LI, Analyst in London 582 votes Well I am Chinese and worked for a major Japanese company in London (mostly British/European of course). Never have I felt hatred from Japanese to me because I am Chinese. On the contrary, they are very very humble, polite, respectful to the extend they need to reach consensus on every decision. In general, I do like Japanese and I think they have some of the best qualities in Asian culture/C... Read More » How can I find my passion? Ju Hae Lee, Web gone native 402 votes The best advice I can give to you is that you will never find your passion just by sitting around. A lot of people just wait for their passion to come to them, but you need to search for it by taking action. Here's my story: I came into college as an astronautical engineering major. I have always loved science and one night when I was in the southern coast of France in a small town called La C... Read More » What are some good websites to learn data structures and algorithms? Bidhan Roy, Software Engineer. Competitive Programmer. 377 votes Listing some mentionable online resources I know about. Topcoder Algorithm Tutorials - Top class tutorials written by highly skilled competitive programmers. TopCoder Cookbook - Mostly check threads with prefixalgorithm competitions. Tutorials are called recipes here. Wide variety of recipes on topics from debugging tricks, memory saving tweaks etc. to possible solutions of NP complete problem...  Read More » Why do some Quorans recommend starting a business so much as if it's nothing? Rizwan Aseem, Growth Hacker, Interested In Everything 907 votes My best friend and I were smoking a cigarette behind the shed and drinking a beer... dreaming up business ideas, and ways to get rich. We were only 14 years old and the ideas we came up with required hundreds of thousands of dollars, a huge number of workers and a ton of support. Since we didn't have the money, didn't know anyone who could help us, in fact we didn't even know a single succ... Read More » How much do street performers make? Nate Sharpe, Engineer/Juggler/Pole vaulter/Adventurer 341 votes Like with all jobs, how much you make street performing depends on a variety of factors: How skilled you are Where you are performing How many shows you do I'll go into more detail below, with a lot of actual data from three years of street performing, but for those interested in the short answer: as high as more than $1000/show and $80k/year, and as little as nothing. Our biggest show ever, £6... Read More » Why do some people recommend not using exception handling in C++? Brian Bi, software engineer and all-around nerd 305 votes Here are some reasons why some C++ programmers don't recommend using exceptions: They believe exceptions have too much overhead They don't like/understand RAII They are working on a codebase that already has a "no exceptions" rule and it would be impractical to change it now because of all the existing code that would have to be rewritten They heard from other programmers that exceptions are bad T...  Read More » How do I prepare myself to become a successful startup CEO? Jason M. Lemkin, partner @ Storm Ventures; ceo/co-founder @ EchoSign (acq'd by Adobe), the web's #1 electronic signature service. 386 votes My list of things that will help: Manage People. This is one of the best things you can do, because 50% of the job of a CEO is recruiting a team, leading a team, empowering a team, convincing a team. This team will include investors, the public, press, PR, etc. -- but it's all a team. Manage anyone you can, even if it's not perfect. My first management job was managing HR. I didn't want t...  Read More » How vulnerable are the US aircraft carriers and battle groups to enemy attack? Jon Davis, Writer and Blogger on Military, Veterans, and Middle Eastern Affairs. 737 votes A United States aircraft carrier group is one of the most secure entities on the planet. What I feel is most misunderstood is that carriers never travel alone. There are numerous ships always traveling around a carrier to ensure its safety against a number of possible enemy threats. This is to ignore many layers of satellite, missile, and ground based defenses. Together, they create many lay... Read More » What Scientific Laws are not yet proven but made into a Law for the sake of money? Ernest W. Adams, Game Design Consultant, Author, and Professor 83 votes The laws of nature don't make money. Even when they're experimentally confirmed, they are free of charge. Einstein proposed E=mc squared. It was untested. Nobody paid him. It got tested and turned out to be right. Still nobody paid him. They didn't even give him the Nobel Prize for it.