Does Mitch McConnell have a family? Does anyone love him enough to talk with him about... the finite nature of life. The preciousness of hours, minutes seconds?
How from dust we all have come and to dust we shall all return?
He could be petting some kittens. Listening to the sound of a child's laugh-- Dude really wants to die in front of us holding a pen mid-way through signing a bill that forces orphans to work in coal mines or something.
Senior devs: when a junior asks you a technical question you don’t know the answer to, pull them into a zoom and say “I don’t know let’s figure this out together”, open google and retype the question they asked you.
If you do know, consider pretending you don’t and doing the same thing.
Chances are likely if you’re annoyed juniors keep asking dumb questions it’s because you just give them dumb answers rather than mirroring behavior.
"Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry."
Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
Oswald Veblen died #OTD in 1960. He was a mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. He proved the Camille Jordan curve theorem in 1905. via @wikipedia
... Why the quotes? Quotes mean "not really". They do not mean emphasis. My opinion of anyone who uses quotes for emphasis goes down on every exposure.
"And love became the world's origin and the world's ruler, yet littered its path is with flowers and blood, flowers and blood."
Victoria (1898)
Knut Hamsun was born #OTD in 1859. He published more than 20 novels, a collection of poetry, some short stories and plays, a travelogue, works of non-fiction and some essays. He awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. via @wikipedia
Many people’s complaints about rice cooking problems on the Internet can be solved by this one trick every East Asian family has to get perfect rice every single time: a rice cooker
"STOP dfigur-ing your NPTYs!!! The drive size can't handle the gds.lib defrag which can lead to a Werf.bock overload!. Just run the runtrm.lp script on your QWS and stop losing so much uptime"
We talk a lot about social platforms "moating" us all,
but I see too many programmers doing this
your software shouldn't be dependent on your operating system
EDIT: adding some context. this is not some small, one-person team who made something cool they want to put out. this group has the resources to write in a cross platform language
"The institution of chivalry forms one of the most remarkable features in the history of the Middle Ages."
Horatio Alger died #OTD in 1899. He was a prolific 19th-century American author, best known for his many juvenile novels about impoverished boys and their rise from humble backgrounds to lives of middle-class security and comfort through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty. via @wikipedia
@gutenberg_org@wikipedia "through hard work, determination, courage, and honesty." ...and randomly bumping into millionaires on the street who take them in ;-)
