Justin Lloyd's Thinkering

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Archives for 1984

We’re ninjas!

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Just got done reading the second issue of TMNT.

Why are they wearing masks?

Are there other six foot tall turtles in the city and they don’t want to be recognised?

The Flew of Time

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We know the upper limit on the speed of light in a vacuum, we refer to this as “c”. About 186,000 miles per second.

Does time itself have an upper limit on how fast it can go?

We know that time slows down in a gravitational field. If that is so, then time on the Moon. The Moon has a weaker gravitational field than the Earth, and also sits at the edge of the Earth’s gravitational field, therefore time on the Moon must run faster than on Earth.

If we move further away from the planet’s and the Sun, and out in to deep, deep space, between the inky blackness between the stars, time must therefore speed up even more.

Time slows down in a gravitational field. Time has to speed up due to the lack of a gravitational field.

How fast can time flow? What is the upper bound? Light has an upper bound. Does time?

 

Two way street

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Don’t expect my loyalty if you are not offering yours in return.

Good motto to live by when it comes to working for a company.

Free-lance?

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“Freelance means you are willing to do it for free, right? Because I’ve got this game I need programmed, shouldn’t take you more than a couple of months.”

Persistent failure

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My friends say “I’ve tried getting in to programming but I just fail at it.”

They ask “How come you are so good with computers? How come you make so much money? Can you teach me?”

And I reply “Because I persist. Because I sit at my desk hour after hour, day after day until I understand. And that is what makes money”

“I don’t have time for that. I’d rather go drinking.” they say.

“And that is why you fail.”

Word of mouth marketing

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I have found that the most effective way to get more freelance work is pure word of mouth marketing.

This is not something I was ever taught in school.

And the biggest question is “Why was I not taught this?”

Name, rank and serial number

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I have found that I can remember and recall sequences of numbers very easily.

Like credit cards.

And very long international telephone numbers.

And social security numbers.

I remember them better than I remember names or people’s faces.

Now how weird is that?!?

Think for yourself for once!

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I fear the day when computers start thinking for themselves, not because computers will be thinking for themselves but because on that day people will stop thinking for themselves.

Mentally exhausting

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It must be quite the hindrance to find that you have exhausted your entire vocabulary in a single sentence.

An apt description

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My mouth can very much get me in to trouble at times:

“I wasn’t insulting you. I was describing you.”

No touchy

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Expecting someone to understand how a computer works without ever putting their hands on a computer is a bit like expecting a boy to understand how sex works without ever touching a girl.

Late to the game

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Well, well.

Looks like I wasn’t the first one to observe (obviously I am never the first) that adding extra people to a late software project just slows it down and makes it later.

Ubiquitous computing hardware

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I am living and growing up in the microcomputer revolution.

But the real computing revolution will happen not when everyone has a computer but when people don’t realise that what they have is a computer.

The opinion of one

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I have noticed that society at large frequently mistakes the opinions of a large group of people for the factual truth.

I think it has been this way forever.

And I think that it will be this way forever.

Or maybe I am just channelling Alexis de Tocqueville since reading On Democracy in America last year and a few of his other books at the beginning of this year.

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