Haha don't worry; all of us perfectionists are like that. Other people just spend an hour at most and that's it. There are advantages for us though; we tend to be very satisfied with our work, and we allocate more than enough time to finish something so we don't do last-minute work.
Thats true, however it conflicts with the workplace J.I.T. methodology. Personally I think our way of doing things is very effective, but to go one higher (effective and efficient) we would need to drop a lot of our previous habits.
I'm not about to change, however I expect some consequences in the future.
@user400188 This is the first time I've heard of workplace JIT, but I place very little value in corporate strategies. After all, squeezing the most money out of people is not the kind of endeavour that I want. It's true that not many companies satisfy my liking.
@projectilemotion Not too bad. I've been drifting through a bunch of different mood swings recently though. Everything I am learning right now is interesting, even wonderful, however its a struggle to find the time to learn (or complete) it all in time.
@user21820 In engineering, its standard practice not to order the parts until the last second; because it saves storage space. Your design has to be ready on time for the delivery and it has t work first time or it wont fit in the facility.
I would, as I did previously, but I'll flag any disruptive posts of his/hers. As long as he/she doesn't come to the Logic room or this room, it's unlikely that I would bother.
@SimplyBeautifulArt Well of course he's quoting all those comments that support him, and none of those that don't. It's the typical behaviour of cranks anyway.
@SimplyBeautifulArt I'd gently nudge you towards learning basic logic, after which you won't ever need to ask for critiquing of your reasoning again. =)
@SimplyBeautifulArt What useless staff (Come help us favorite all the useless stuff) ? Where? On main; I already do sometimes (deleted posts, e.g.) so I can access links back to them.
@SimplyBeautifulArt (Sorry for eavesdropping). That makes a lot of sense these days. Though there are still a lot of graduate programs in math that require reading proficiency in French or German, or as relevant to the literature pertaining to one's thesis. But I think at the undergrad level, it's becoming pretty universal these days to allow programming language, and always at the grad level in math.
I know a bit of chinese but it's an outdated language in my opinion, somewhere between Egyptian hieroglyphics and Hebrew.
As for French, yea as amWhy says some papers are only in French, and those who can read it don't want to translate them, and many French mathematicians still publish solely in their favourite language.