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Fish
Q. What Do Fish Say When They Hit a Concrete Wall?
A. Dam!
(i'm sorry)
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A Solution for Go Versioning
Haunt's recent Go versioning debacle is a problem that can be solved by the community.
Currently, one enters a link to a repo in a header:
import (
"github.com/cool/project
)
And go magically figures out what it needs to do, and clones the repo.
However, Go's FAQ states that, given the...
Poems by Philip Martin
Hi there!
Welcome to my poetry site. I thought this would be a great way to publish some of my poetry online.
Just scroll down the page read my poems.
Hopefully you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them!
Philip Martin
So Far She Slips, Away Again
So far she slips,...
To write for no one
There you are, saddened by the futility of writing. You wonder if it matters. If your intimate thoughts are just going to sit like another grain of sand, on another tourist beach. You wonder if anybody would read what you write. See what you mean. If it would make a difference.
Well, maybe it...
Speaking English is Betrayal
I speak English well, but it's not my native language. I live in a rich country where most people speak English at a passable level in addition to their native tongue. Here, we get exposed to American culture from a very early age. Many commercials are simply imported as-is from abroad without...
Did You Know?
If you find a drivers license you can drop it into any mailbox as is and the postal service will deliver it back to the driver
Double Positive
An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. “In English,” he said, “a double negative forms a positive. However, in some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But there isn’t a single language, not one, in which a double positive can...
I failed an interview, and the interviewer failed me
It seems like the more I deal with recruiters, the more I’m left with a bad taste in my mouth and today was no different. I had an interview today with a senior recruiter of some sort at some other company I’ve never heard of and after five minutes, I realized he was a “tech”...
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We all have a tendency to think of people as good or bad. And, we say, as long as we kick the bad people, everything would be fine. But the reality is that we all have the capacity to be quite bad, under the right circumstances
- Dan Arlely
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Everyone is a Genius
Everyone is a Genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.
Albert Einstein
