I read documentation this week. And last week too. And next week I’ll be reading documentation too. I like reading documentation.
Why should I spend time writing to AI, waiting for “thinking longer for the better answer”™, when I can just Google the documentation I need, open it, and enjoy …
It hurts me a lot to watch the education crisis in our country. I experience it as a personal tragedy. What made me write this note was an incident that happened in one of the programming-related chats.
One day, a chat participant posted a photo of the theoretical problems he …
Programmers adore Revelations from God. That’s when some truth is obvious to everyone, while programmers arrive at it through long, expansive reasoning.
Today I read the article “TDD Harms Architecture”. (http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2017/03/03/TDD-Harms-Architecture.html). The article is about how, supposedly, the culture of …
Let me tell you a joke. Five programmers are sitting at work late on a Sunday evening, December 31, wondering: how the fuck did they end up there. “What did we do wrong? Where did we screw up? What didn’t we do?” Looking for someone to blame and all …
People often ask: how I personally organize my work. I use a lot of tools for personal effectiveness. Today let’s talk about the task list.
A task list is the most important tool for organizing personal effectiveness. Absolutely everything that needs to be done gets offloaded from your head …
In the summer of 2004, a close friend (Sasha, hi!) invited me to go to an evening sermon at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses. What could possibly interest me in a close friend’s invitation to go to an evening sermon at a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s …
On August 5, 2012, I wrote a note, “The KhNURE Website, 20x2”.
In 2013, they did finally change the site’s design. But the editorial policy stayed the same.
Thanks for the invitation, but alas, not everyone has a time machine.
As late as noon on Thursday, nothing foretold disaster. But at 4:00 p.m. the first warning bell rang from an unknown number:
— Hey, so are you coming tomorrow?
After a couple seconds of thinking, from the voice and the question I figured out who was calling.
— Yes, of …
Chuck Schuldiner — the silver voice of death metal.
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A correspondent from Prague reports:
As of January 1, citizens of the Czech Republic are allowed to have on them: up to 15 grams of marijuana, up to four ecstasy tablets, two grams of amphetamine, one and a half grams of heroin, one gram of cocaine. They are also allowed …