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Afraid of “the other”

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Who you are should never make you afraid.

Who you are should make everyone else afraid.

The reason that you are afraid of who you are, or who you might be, is because other people are afraid of that, and so they go to great lengths to point out, that because they are afraid, you should be afraid too.

Though they never say “I am afraid of who you will become, because you will be different, and I don’t want you to be different to me.”

Those other people will couch their fear in phrases that sound like they are caring.

Studying – Higher National Diploma Computer Science

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This month I am studying “Higher National Diploma Computer Science”

In-person, full-time, 20 months. 19th month. Finals are already here. Capstone project has been handed in. It’s happening! It’s really happening! Oh my God! I’m going to graduate! I’m going to get a Hnd! This means a lot to me.

Win at all costs

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I’ve always held that if I do not stand a good chance of winning then I will refuse to compete.

And if I am forced to compete, then I change the rules to make sure I stand a good chance of winning.

Given them short shift

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A shorter work week is an ideal that will never happen.

Not because we as humans would like to work less but because other people are unhappy that they have to work more.

People who want more want the economy to be ever bigger.

Body Contouring Amnesia

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For years I slept on, or rather visited, for a few weeks at a time, my bed in my home.

On that bed I had a memory foam mattress.

The problem with memory a foam mattress is that if you don’t sleep on it for any length of time, a few weeks touring with your band for instance, the memory foam mattress forgets who you are.

Memory foam is obviously short-term memory only.

And when my mattress got older, it suffered from complete amnesia.

Which somehow is a metaphor of life.

Unit testing

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What it is like to write code without unit tests:
“That didn’t work as expected.”

What it is like to write code with unit tests:

“That didn’t work, as expected.”

Today I am learning about unit testing and integration testing (thanks Fred Brooks!) because today the company I am doing some consulting work for finally decided that “maybe these industrial robots could kill someone, you know? Maybe we should pay more attention to safety than just putting up a guard rail and a big warning sign.”

Yah think?!?

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