A few thoughts on science, engineering and technology
StackExchange doesn’t to my knowledge allow pictures in comments, so I’ll post my pictures here in case someone else has more time to reproduce and debug this issue. Original question (please post any comments there): https://askubuntu.com/questions/495997/how-to-properly-restart-unity Original state when I resumed my 2015 Macbook Pro with Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS and all updates applied from sleep …
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To my future self or anyone interested, I do not know if God is my savior because I do not know if I want to be saved. If I am one of the 144,000: And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could …
Awesome post by Scott Farquhar. If I ever do find myself in the fortunate situation of being in a small startup again, it’s definitely something I will be personally advocating for: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/corporate-philanthropy-pledge-1-percent
I use the AFR iPad app for the free stories, because I choose not to pay for such luxuries as newspapers until I can afford my own dwelling (so ironic that it is my understanding that the AFR is owned by Fairfax media who also owns the Domain group). Today brings a good piece from …
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Good general advice: https://www.themuse.com/advice/can-we-talk-how-to-confront-someone-at-work I am consistently surprised how awesome things tend to be for me, and as far as possible I always go straight to the source and cut to the chase in the interests of maximising everyone’s time. In other words, I assume the wonderful quote from Grace Hopper: It’s easier to ask …
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Neon has come across my radar a few times. Today I started following it’s really awesome Getting Started guide. If you have a spare half hour, there’s also the following really cool video on what it might all mean for upcoming systems programmers (source):
From Harry Potter by the highly acclaimed modern literary genius Joanne Kathleen Rowling: He had never seen a wizard work like this, simply by looking and touching; but Harry had long since learned that bangs and smoke were more often the marks of ineptitude than expertise. – Harry Potter contrasts Albus Dumbledore‘s magical actions in the Horcrux Cave to …
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I am living proof they can and do work. Two years ago: Last year was a bit more personal. A private email to myself on Feb 3 reveals: Late yes, but I have it. It is to build the confidence to look myself in the eye in the mirror and be content about being me. …
From the brilliant Daniel Pink: This is Part 2 of my “River of thoughts” series, Part 1 can be found by tag below.
Peter Johannes Schmidt