There is this slang term butthurt to describe someone who responds very poorly to any criticism or joking. We should strive to never be butthurt, but instead take criticisms—whatever people/parties they come from—as opportunities to gain understanding of our own shortcomings and errors so that we can …
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A chilly November breeze pushes fallen leaves across quiet suburban streets. For the most part, the city scape is still. The robots are still doing their robot things—traffic lights will change when proper stimuli are applied, on some streets you can smell gasoline and hear leaf blowers, and the …
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One thing I've bought a lot of is books. In the US, growing up, we're told reading is good and having a large vocabulary is one way to "sound smart". Heeded uncritically, the advise "read a lot" can lead you to become more foolish and more vain than if you …
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Election stuff is going on, but I'm not watching any news. I will hear what others say and thus kind of follow what is going on, but I understand that the election outcome isn't really something that is under my control, so it is a waste of time and energy …
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Today, there are a handful of popular Web Frameworks including React, Angular, and Vue. What these things do is allow you to use more programatic ways to spit out websites made of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript rather than writing the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript directly. The things these web frameworks …
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Many of the difficulties we face are those of our own choosing. Today was a tough day for me in some ways, but the troubles I can think of were all of my own causing. Doing web tech work, it is no mystery today why I had to spend many …
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Learning a new domain of any sort will involve learning new terms—sometimes called (technical) jargon. One challenging aspect of doing this is that you will often have to "overload" words you already use/know—learn a new specialized application of some word form.
What is an "Object" in programing …
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Most of the time, there is a "low/no tech" way to make progress on some problem. Yet, very often, we turn toward tech solutions to make life "easier". What often happens is that the tech over-complicates things and makes us get wrapped up in secondary concerns that prevent us …
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Often, in sunny California, you will run into slogans plastered around buildings, lining sidewalks, in stores, and in other places where people frequently go which give imperatives like,
- READ
- SPEAK
- VOTE
...and so on and so forth.
Now, looking into just who is giving these messages and what they want …
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What is work? I consider this as an important question to answer in order to direct my activities away from being lazy.
To start, there is the most obvious sort of work—physical labor to achieve some tangible end. For instance, you may have to move some supplies up a …
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