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Did You Know?
Mar
14th
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14th
Zidane added: … but most importantly he gives the players around him confidence and belief. You can’t learn that - players like him are just born with that presence.
Mar
11th
Wed
11th
Most software developers are optimists. Painful experience teaches us to temper our optimism, but without specific experience we tend toward optimism. Natural pessimists on development teams are often unpopular, even if they are consistently right. Few people will risk this reputation and take a stand against the majority without a very solid case. Most of us have had the “This makes me uncomfortable, but I can’t explain why” feeling, but sharing it rarely wins any arguments.
Feb
7th
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7th
Copying skips understanding. Understanding is how you grow. You have to understand why something works or why something is how it is.
Jan
18th
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18th
The cemeteries of the world are full of indispensable men.
— CHARLES DE GAULLE
Jan
11th
Sun
11th
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things - air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
— Cesare Pavese
Dec
27th
Sat
27th
Taking action without thinking things through is a prime source of problems.
— Alec Mackenzie
