Do you know these people who cannot seem to stop working? Even after a few drinks, they still talk happily about whatever they are working on, gathering new ideas and trying to find answers? Some people think this is sad, as for some reason people should be sad about their …
morePay what you want might be asking too much from customers
Being the math guy in my hood and non-academic social circle, I am often asked to give private lessons, most often when exams are coming up, but sometimes even some sort of semi regular arrangement. I love teaching mathematics and helping people, and more often than not, people in need …
moreReclaiming attention at work
As I wrote in a previous note, attention seems to be the scarcest resource an individual can have, as without it even time seems to be worthless. Everything that matters requires our attention. In particular one would think that it is in your employer's best interest if you are focused …
moreNot by force of habit
Today @TheConstructor mentioned that he'd happily switch to Linux if there was an adoption of the MacOS window management and of course I could not resist to disagree, as the window management of MacOS and Windows is one of the things I hate most about those. In his reply he …
moreAttention, not time, is the most valuable resource
So while there seems to be an increasing awareness of the value of attention, it is often only on the side of advertisers, selling our attention to companies, in order to boost these companies revenues. And it is working quite well. Obviously the advertising industry, lead by companies like Google …
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Meat and potatoes or why IIFYM does not work for me
Almost no food has the same down-to-earth ring as meat and potatoes, as not even steak and eggs became synonymous with the basics and fundamentals of things. Given that it has been a staple food in Germany and Central Europe for at least a hundred years and many dishes in …
moreHow to perceive the value of money
Money has an absolute value. If you hold a bill, there is a number printed on it, which is determining its value. However, depending on the way you earn money and your financial goals, its actual value for you changes and it becomes all perception.
Say you work for an …
moreOn the paradigm difference between Texas Method and Heavy-Light-Medium
A friend of mine lately tinkered a bit with his training and used HLM as a guidance. However, it somehow looked and felt more like a Texas Method. He shifted the days a bit because of his schedule and wondered, whether the difference between the two is just the order …
moreTabbing in vim
vim is one of the tools one can use for years and still discover new features or better ways to accomplish something. One of these features are tabs, which I didn't know exist until today. Although splitting windows is fine for most tasks, sometimes I wish to edit multiple files …
moreLaTeX todonotes
Currently I'm writing my bachelor thesis in mathematics and for noting what I still have to do or mark some difficulties, I used to add comments to the .tex-code. However, when printing the file or viewing the compiled output, these obviously won't be displayed. Gladly a quick search for …
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Bridging and firewalling KVM guests on debian with shorewall
This post is mainly for documentation purposes, since this is a task one does not have to do on a daily basis and it always takes some time to get back into the matter. The scenario is a debian kvm host, running libvirt for kvm virtual machines and shorewall for …
moreBeginning Haskell the practical way part two: File I/O
In my last post about Haskell I showed how you can interact with the user via command line arguments without the need for complicated libraries, so you can quickly start hacking and explore the language. In this post I want to cover file interaction, which is, since on UNIX-like …
moreBeginning Haskell the practical way
I found many useful tutorials for Haskell which do a great job explaining the language details and the mathematical nature of it, however, almost none gets you hacking in a few moments so you can experience Haskells power in the real world. But since using a new language is at …
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