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Andy Murray Beats Milos Raonic for Second Wimbledon Championship – http://ti.me/29x1Fcj

Watch Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Final Hamilton Curtain Call – http://time.com/4400157/lin-manuel-miranda-hamilton-curtain-call-final-show/

Weekend Reading: Tim Dunlop: Journalism, Power and Taking Sides – http://www.bradford-delong.com/2016/07/weekend-reading-tim-dunlop-journalism-power-and-taking-sides.html

I just woke up from a dream where I was a bandit a robinhood type. The action sequences was early 90s late 80s. I died while being chased by the police through teachers village. It was a weird dream in the sense that I felt I was in the Ben tambling  movie except it was me and that I spouted liberal ideology. 

Go to the waterparks in this city on any hot summer day and you see the true potential of Toronto. The meaning of multiculturalism in Toronto is not theoretical; it is not found in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms or in the decisions of the refugee board. The meaning of multiculturalism is found in the waterparks, among the slides and fountains, and lazy rivers and wave pools: a collection of various people of various shades speaking various languages, lounging in the shade, drinking overpriced rum drinks

Source: Welcome to the new Toronto: the most fascinatingly boring city in the world | Cities | The Guardian

It sounds like something you’d never need, but sometimes, when you distribute end-user software, you may need to install a java program as a Windows service. I had to do it because I developed a tool for civil servants to automatically convert and push their Excel files to the opendata portal of my country. The tool has to run periodically, so it’s a prime candidate for a service (which would make the upload possible even if the civil servant forgets about this task altogether, and besides, repetitive manua

Source: Installing a Java Application as a Windows Service – DZone Java

Two Types of Knowledge There are two types of knowledge and most of us focus on the wrong one. The first type of knowledge focuses on knowing the name of something. The second focuses on knowing something. These are not the same thing. The famous Nobel winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between knowing something and knowing the name of something and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. In fact, he created a formula for learning that ensured he understood somethin

Source: The Feynman Technique: The Most Efficient Way to Learn Anything

Sunday, June 26, 2016 Creating Start-up Script in Ubuntu I installed Redmine in an Ubuntu Server at Windows Azure and was successful in doing so. However, Azure did some maintenance in my server and has to restart it. So, when I accessed Redmine again, Nginx redirected me to its Error 502 page. Upon checking, I realized that  there was really a restart that happened and I thought I have to create a start-up script to avoid this since it was not only me who is using the Redmine which I installed but also my

Source: Jetty Application Server: Creating Start-up Script in Ubuntu

This led Damasio to formulate what might be his great contribution to the understanding of the brain (and the human body): what he calls the somatic (as in body) marker hypothesis. Essentially, he reasons, when you’re thinking about a course of action, you imagine your body to be in the potential situation, and you get, in layman’s terms, a “good” or “bad” feeling about it. It’s not that right decisions come from that sort of feeling alone, but, Damasio argues, those “somatic markers” filter away lots of alternatives; they’re a shortcut to decision-making. While Elliot’s landscape of potential realities all had “flat” values, healthy people weigh the potential outcomes that are left after “somatic markers” filter the other possibilities out.As Damasio said in a later interview, wisdom, if you choose to accept it, is what happens when you accrue lots of somatic knowledge in your life: If you’ve been through lots, then you know how you would feel in a wide variety of situations, allowing you to make better decisions (and give, as one does, better advice). Therein lies the problem of the high-reason view: without the filtering provided by emotions and their somatic markers, the data sets for any given decision — whether it’s what to get for lunch or whom to marry — would be overwhelming. The working memory can only juggle so many objects at once. To make the right call, you need to feel your way — or at least part of your way — there.

Source: How Only Using Logic Destroyed a Man’s Life — Science of Us

This article is a month old. I’ve read it maybe 30 times at least. I read it to be connected to a sensible development manager mind, something that can’t be said of my boss (not our CTO, I think he will mostly agree with this). haha.
If you are a developer/programmer and you are passionate about your job. You would probably love this article.
 
 

In my current position as Senior Development Director there are six Development Managers that report to me. There are just under fifty software developers in my organization. We have enviably low employee turnover and very high customer satisfaction. Over the years I’ve given my direct reports and their direct reports the same insights I’m going to share with you now. These insights are hard-won wisdom rather than something I intuitively knew or read about. That is to say, I learned the hard way. The reason

Source: The Quiet Crisis unfolding in Software Development — Medium