Sunday, December 31, 2017

Daily bread 12/31/2017

  • 5 types of programmers that you will ever encounter

    • not all programmers are similar
    • Just as there are dozens of programming languages
    • there are a number of different types of programmers
    • take a look at five type of programmers you are most likely to encounter in your daily life.
    • Tabs versus Spaces
    • What to use for indentation?
    • Copy-and-paste coder
    • Don’t really know what they are doing, but the one thing they do pretty well is copy and paste the code from Google.
    • The fixer-upper
    • rather write three more functions than fixing the one function which is broken
    • looks more like it needs to go through a spaghetti straightener rather than a compiler.
    • The perfectionist
    • They want every line to be inch perfect.
    • The smart one
    • they don’t have to reinvent the wheel
    • they just use an API to make use of the functionality that someone else is providing
    • dedicate their efforts towards improving upon that existing technology

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Saturday, December 30, 2017

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Friday, December 29, 2017

Daily bread 12/29/2017

  • Trump travel drains Secret Service budget - BBC News

    • tumultuous
    • lease dispute

  • How developers will work in 2018

    • How developers will work in 2018
    • spoke to developers across a number of segments, and asked what they thought next year would bring. Here’s what they said.
    • All about the containers
    • Containerization is a great idea
    • thanks to projects like Docker and Kubernetes, containerizing software is really easy
    • reliable software – secure, up to date, performant, resilient to failure
    • AR and Machine Learning

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Tuesday, December 26, 2017

Daily bread 12/26/2017

  • Listen Notes: Best podcast search engine & podcast database

    tags: podcast_search_engine

  • Why is it called Boxing Day? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Stephen Moss | Opinion | The Guardian

    • Why is it called Boxing Day?
    • nothing to do with boxing, or with putting used wrapping paper into boxes, or with boxing up all your unwanted presents
    • in small acts of kindness
    • The origins of Boxing Day lie
    • the name derives from the giving of Christmas “boxes”
    • churches in the Middle Ages. Parishioners collected money for the poor in alms boxes, and these were opened on the day after Christmas in honour of St Stephen, the first Christian martyr, whose feast day falls on 26 December.
    • Christianised late Roman empire, when similar collections were supposedly made for the poor in honour of St Stephen
    • St Stephen’s Day became associated with public acts of charity.
    • giving Christmas boxes – commonly a small gift or some money – to tradespeople who had provided them with good service
    • tradition of giving Christmas boxes to tradespeople was still extant a generation ago but is now disappearing
    • Christmas really isn’t what it used to be.
    • Boxing Day is primarily a British tradition, and the UK has exported it to Australia, Canada and New Zealand (in each of which it has become primarily a shopping and sporting day)

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Monday, December 25, 2017

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Saturday, December 23, 2017

Daily bread 12/23/2017

  • How did Europe become the richest part of the world? | Aeon Essays

    tags: europe

    • a classical emergent property
    • a complex and unintended outcome of simpler interactions on the whole.
    • the result of contingent institutional outcomes
    • a self-reinforcing dynamic of economic progress
    • Europe’s political fragmentation spurred productive competition
    • competing for the best and most productive intellectuals and artisans
    • the existence of multiple competing states encouraged scientific and technological innovation.
    • The ‘abuses of tyranny are restrained by the mutual influence of fear and shame’
    • meliorated
    • If conservative rulers clamped down on heretical and subversive (that is, original and creative) thought, their smartest citizens would just go elsewhere
    • The size of the ‘market’ that intellectual and technological innovators faced was one element of scientific and technological development
    • The structure of the medieval Christian Church also provided an element shared throughout the continent
    • the widespread use of Latin as their lingua franca.
    • ong before the term ‘Europe’ was commonly used, it was called ‘Christendom
    • Valencia-born Juan Luis Vives
    • If Europe’s intellectuals moved with unprecedented frequency and ease, their ideas travelled even faster.
    • the printing press and the much-improved postal system, written knowledge circulated rapidly
    • Europe’s divided and uncoordinated polities enhanced an intellectual freedom that simply could not exist in China or the Ottoman Empire.
    • It was a very competitive market.
    • time and again demonstrated a willingness to slaughter sacred cows
    • the best of two worlds, both the advantages of an integrated transnational academic community and a com­petitive states system
    • a belief in social and economic progress, a growing regard for scientific and intellectual innovation, and a commitment to a Baconian, ie a methodical and empirically grounded, research programme of knowledge in the service of economic growth
    • the appearance of better tools and instruments that faci­litated research in natural philosophy.
    • the micro­scope, telescope, barometer and modern thermometer.
    • developed in the first half of the 17th century.
    • Improved tools in physics, astronomy and biology refuted many misconceptions inherited from classical antiquity
    • Europe’s (and the world’s) Great Enrichment was in no way inevitable
    • Had political and military developments taken different turns in Europe, conservative forces might have prevailed and taken a more hostile attitude toward the new and more progressive interpretation of the world
    • the best is still to come

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Friday, December 22, 2017

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Thursday, December 21, 2017

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Wednesday, December 20, 2017

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Tuesday, December 19, 2017

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Monday, December 18, 2017

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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Daily bread 12/17/2017

  • Australia, New Zealand Face China’s Influence | Council on Foreign Relations

    • has stepped up efforts
    •  sparked concern
    • amid signs
    • Canberra has to be “very conscious of the possibilities of foreign interference in our universities.”
    • Confucius Institutes
    • censor criticism of Beijing
    • McCarthyism
    • bombshell report
    • have increasingly been tasked with monitoring China-born students who attend foreign universities
    • Regional Security Overtones
    • significant strategic and economic ramifications
    • lasting tilt
    • seismic consequences
    • Wielding greater influence
    • a robust response
    • stigmatize Chinese-Australians
    • due diligence
    • Australia is stepping up its defenses

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Saturday, December 16, 2017

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Friday, December 15, 2017

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Thursday, December 14, 2017

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

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Friday, December 8, 2017

Daily bread 12/08/2017

  • Buying in New Zealand? Time is running out . . . 

    • backdrop
    • safe haven
    • when disaster strikes
    • there is no better place to be than
    • an escape from a volatile world
    • ties to
    • Would-be buyers
    • being snapped up
    • increased ferociously
    • aspiring buyers
    • a vastly watered-down version
    • thrives on
    • to close the door on
    • supply and demand imbalance

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Wednesday, December 6, 2017

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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Daily bread 12/05/2017

  • ESL Lesson Plan on Married People - Breaking News English Lesson

    • marital bliss
    • cortisol
    • saliva
    • widowed
    • regulates
    • inflammation
    • intimate social relationships

  • Would, Used To Or Simple Past

    tags: used_to

  • Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule: What It Actually Takes to Reach Genius-Level Excellence – Brain Pickings

    • You have to tweak the system by pushing
    • the main predictor of success is deliberate practice
    • persistent training to which you give your full concentration rather than just your time
    • often guided by a skilled expert, coach, or mentor
    • experts did so with full concentration on improving a particular aspect of their performance that a master teacher identified.
    • a second necessary element: a feedback loop that allows you to spot errors as they occur and correct them, much like ballet dancers use mirrors during practice.
    • Ideally that feedback comes from someone with an expert eye and so every world-class sports champion has a coach. If you practice without such feedback, you don’t get to the top ranks.
    • The feedback matters and the concentration does, too — not just the hours.
    • Paying full attention seems to boost the mind’s processing speed, strengthen synaptic connections, and expand or create neural networks for what we are practicing.
    • The experts, in contrast, keep paying attention top-down, intentionally counteracting the brain’s urge to automatize routines. They concentrate actively on those moves they have yet to perfect, on correcting what’s not working in their game, and on refining their mental models of how to play the game, or focusing on the particulars of feedback from a seasoned coach. Those at the top never stop learning: if at any point they start coasting and stop such smart practice, too much of their game becomes bottom-up and their skills plateau.
    • Focused attention, like willpower, is like a muscle and gets fatigued with exertion:
    • limit arduous practice
    • Rest and restoring physical and mental energy
    • Optimal practice maintains optimal concentration.

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Monday, December 4, 2017

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Sunday, December 3, 2017

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Saturday, December 2, 2017

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