On life (from the movie "How Do You Know"):
1. Figure out what you really want.
2. Learn how to ask for it.
Two Things
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#42Two things about The Game:
1) You are playing The Game 2) You just lost The Game
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#43"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things" - Phil Karlton http://people.famouswhy.com/phil_karlton/ (NB: "hard" things) While we're being flippant: Every problem in computer science can be solved by adding another level of indirection - except for the problem of too many levels of indirection
and off-by-one errors http://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
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#44For Biology, "Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recapitulation_theory Instead I would say: 1. Some things can replicate better than others. 2. Things replicate imperfectly, causing change over time.
When I got to that quote, I laughed and stopped reading. This list has clearly not been fact checked.
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#45Obviously the premise of "two things" is fairly ridiculous, but I bet it's an interesting thing to ask people at parties. I cannot stand party small talk, and the most fun I've had socialising with strangers were when I ask them straight questions like these.
Another thing I ask people, just out of curiosity since it's not insightful at the same level, is to just go through their average day. Sort of like a bottom-up description of their work/study/whatever live, instead of the top-down answer you get when you ask "so, what do you do".
Some people may think it's weird, though.
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#46Two Things involved in making life changes, like exercise or learning:
- Do it today
- Repeat
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#47Teaching:
1. There are no safe assumptions.
2. Relate.
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#48Two things about The Game: 1) You are playing The Game 2) You just lost The Game
1) 391.
2) XKCD is your friend.
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#49Computer Science: 1. Your code always does exactly what you tell it to and never anything more. 2. You probably don't actually know what you're telling it to do.
3. It's never a bug in the compiler (except when it is).
You know, I sincerely considered that one, but the contradiction in the sentence made me afraid to put it up there...
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#50Programming:
1. As it gets complicated add indirection/abstraction
2. Its about talking to people not machines