Thank YOU TNT!!!!
May 29th 2008 by angol in Sports 0Lakers Spurs Live!
http://www.tnt.tv/sports/nba/playoffs08_live/
Archive for May, 2008
Nice Intro To Innovation!
May 29th 2008 by angol in rePosts 0from Robin Hanson Of Overcoming Bias blog:
I have learned most of the list from other places but I learned the following from the article.
5. Innovation in large systems comes mostly from part innovation, so system innovation is steadier than part innovation, and the largest systems grow steadiest.
6. System structures vary in how well they encourage [...]
Refactoring And Maintaining Other People’s Code
May 29th 2008 by angol in Coding, Programming 0I’ve been feeling the pain of other developers right now. Maintaining and actually changing other people’s code.
I have a couple of thorns in my side.
1. I’ve been using C# for almost two months now. Although I can already say that I a already have above average skill in C# I’ve had difficulty with mainly lack [...]
Displacements
May 28th 2008 by angol in Elink 8 0WOW THIS IS COOL YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS!
hat tip to : kottke.org
DISPLACEMENTS
What The Deaf Can Teach Us About Listening
May 26th 2008 by angol in Outlook, personal AnGoL 0I wish more people practice this. I’ve been trying to influence my friends to listen (not multitask) when conversing but, I did It by example and one of the things I suspect about how people are right now is that the inaudibles, the visuals , and other non auditory form of communication are largely ignored. [...]
Shooting Stars
May 26th 2008 by angol in personal AnGoL 0This made me reminisce the time I went to a beach somewhere in Quezon province. I vividly remember my friends being amazed at how many shooting stars we were seeing each minute it was around 1-5 shooting stars per minute. I told them that in the province it was normal to see that many shooting [...]
I Dont Have The Time! part 1
May 26th 2008 by angol in Self Improvement, personal AnGoL 0I used to watch hours upon hour of television, back in college I used to record the shows I wouldn’t be able to catch using my now wrecked but still loved and remembered VCR that allowed me to watch the telenovelas shown during class hours and to watch ABS-CBN (Pangako Sa Iyo, etc) whilst I [...]
Delusions and Inaction
May 26th 2008 by angol in Outlook, personal AnGoL 0Often times we want something to be true, we want our world view to be the truth when it would be infinitely better for us if we accept and to just try to change the world we know. It is of little use to keep on pretending about something when it limits our actions on [...]
What Once Was Stupid To Me!
May 26th 2008 by angol in personal AnGoL 0I got an email from a friend on a research about longterm effects of sugar replacements (aspartame research here) on mice. One of the things that struck me about the research was that the author was going against established, testing practice, and did not use genetically close mice as test subjects, His rational was that [...]
Funny Not So Much But Funny Enough
May 26th 2008 by angol in Funny 0hmm! my respect for Harvard grad students just went done a notch!
link here:
One commenter asks if I had the same experience with my own students. My students are not precisely representative, but it’s worth noting that they’re not immune. I once had a Harvard grad student call me at 10pm the night before the exam [...]
