#1888: Programming Teaches Like A Mother
Monday • September 9th 2024 • 10:54:05 pm • 3KB
It takes very little to get started, you should just watch video tutorials. You don't even have to type any code, just search for JavaScript tutorials and relax. And as you watch and learn, about different JavaScript modules. Something will eventually call...
#1887: Teachers, Stop Pretending To Teach
Sunday • September 8th 2024 • 11:21:23 pm • 3KB
You have successfully threatened your students with bad GPA, that results in lower status and crappy career choices. But school was invented to eliminate bullies like you, and do the opposite, help students rise and become creators. Lying, all the way to...
#1886: It Is Neither About The Journey Or Its Heights; It Is About Who You Become During Your Journey
Sunday • September 8th 2024 • 12:22:49 am • 3KB
Crappy schools would love you, for parading “its about the journey” slogan. They’d give you free pizza, and a flimsy diploma, and send you on your way. Similarly every quack between Attila and the Witch Doctor, would charge you for merely sightseeing a...
#1885: Learn For Real; Or, Don't Get Tricked, Ineffective Education Is A Shortcut For Liars
Friday • September 6th 2024 • 11:33:13 pm • 5KB
Even if you didn't cram for tests, you still wouldn't have graduated from a real school. Real schools create real knowledge, an not by memorization, or brainless practice. Real schools, help you understand things, in terms of system diagrams that work. A...
#1884: Learning Programming Is Easy, You Just Have To Put Your Foot In The Door
Thursday • September 5th 2024 • 10:12:18 pm • 3KB
"I Wish I Had 2,000 Feet So I Could Put 500 Of Them In Each Of Your Asses." -- Red Forman I am now wise enough, to avoid learning multiple languages. I want to invest my focus, power, patience, energy, madness, creativity, inventiveness, chaos, and anarchy...
#1883: Integrate Your Future; Or, Stand Up For Effective Education
Wednesday • September 4th 2024 • 11:25:06 pm • 5KB
“School is not a place for smart people” -- Rick Sanchez Education, knowledge, is a living organism, it starts with a delicate seed and grows into a magnificent tree. School, your teachers, are performers, skilled to get you to pass state tests by means of...
#1882: Creators, Navigators, And Saving The World
Wednesday • September 4th 2024 • 12:29:33 am • 4KB
The AI we have access to today, is not as weak as it appears. And it is well known that breaking down large tasks, into smaller ones is the key to getting stuff done. Outside of programming, this is accomplished with structured text, markdown lists. But...
#1881: You Are A Creature Of The Stars
Monday • September 2nd 2024 • 10:04:06 pm • 5KB
You are perfectly unique, you are just one, and you will never repeat. You exist because of chance, and that makes you a perfect miracle. You were born to Earth, and are chemically and biologically bound to it. There are other worlds, but very far away....
#1880: Programmers! Don't Just Use Plain Variables, Oh No!
Sunday • September 1st 2024 • 9:24:09 pm • 3KB
When calculating the sum of two numbers, we say x = 1, y = 1, and get 2 by executing x+y. That is good for crunching numbers, but in the old school way, where we rerun x+y if either variables change. In web pages where we deal with information that can...
#1879: Bushwhacking In America
Saturday • August 31st 2024 • 10:52:42 pm • 4KB
It is actually not possible, to bushwhack in America. That’s the one thing, that they never prepare you for. United States especially, are new, and the wild animals are still wild. In Europe, a Squirrel is your friend, in the US, you are seen as an...
#1878: The Future Is Always Bright, Once You Learn Programming
Saturday • August 31st 2024 • 12:15:50 am • 6KB
But you have to navigate it right, you have to hit the right steps. You have to pick the right language, and choose the right battles. I once had to strategically learn Action Script, to eliminate early browser compatibility issues. It worked out too...
#1877: Bodybuilding Explained Freaky Fast
Thursday • August 29th 2024 • 10:48:59 pm • 5KB
Switch to a trail-mix diet, and build up your endurance, to handle a one hour, non-stop of 1980 aerobic exercise with 2 pound dumbbells in each hand. Once you barely need to stop, increase the weight of your dumbbells, by two or three pounds, and when your...
#1876: When Control Takes A Toll – A Back To School Special
Wednesday • August 28th 2024 • 9:59:50 pm • 3KB
I briefly spoke to a High School teacher who explained, that when asked to enter their email address. Some students need to be reminded, to enter their whole e-mail address. After two days of searching, I finally came up with a name for it. I will share...
#1875: Fitness Is Sacred, Fitness Is Life
Tuesday • August 27th 2024 • 11:30:38 pm • 5KB
The modern gym is pretty amazing, captious, clean, somewhat inexpensive. In my gym there is a little room, that blinks a street light telling people to switch machines. A nearby gym has an area where parents, can have their kids babysat while they workout....
#1874: Listen To Philosophy Books And Practice Programming
Tuesday • August 27th 2024 • 12:03:22 am • 3KB
The cleanest trick played on us, is indoctrination into mediocrity. You are taught useless facts, and given good grades for regurgitating them. You are told to earn good grades, or threatened with ruining your own future. And your parent’s couldn't be...
#1873: So You Have Learned Programming... What Do?
Sunday • August 25th 2024 • 11:50:12 pm • 4KB
At this moment your platform of choice should be Electron, a stripped down web browser. When you build an an electron project, it just opens a window. That shows HTML text, on a web page. This is a desktop application, so you only host downloads. You don...
#1872: Learn Programming First! Don’t Let Ghouls And Ineffective Education Trick You Out Of Your Future
Saturday • August 24th 2024 • 11:39:01 pm • 2KB
Don’t listen to uneducated ghouls lying that, AI will replace programmers. They talk like this because they fear you, they fear competition, and brilliance and dreamers. They fear more innovation, that will out compete and out think them. You are the...
#1871: Gentile Dedys
Saturday • August 24th 2024 • 12:31:53 am • 6KB
The one thing that you won’t be able to do, is become a great being in the last moment. Geniuses are the same way, you can’t become a genius at the last minute. Ladies and Gentlemen, again, same way, A king could declare a Nobleman, but never make, a...
#1870: Fitness Above All; Before You Take Care Of Others, You Must Take Care Of Yourself
Friday • August 23rd 2024 • 12:43:46 am • 3KB
The hardest thing, is breaking with unhealthy ways. That, and nothing else, is really the problem, with establishing a new routine. It is why we must choose long adventure trails, over just signing up for the gym. Gym is a difficult place, and adventure...
#1869: Don't Lift Heavy At The Gym: Scientific Evidence For High-Intensity, Multi-Hour Training With Low Weights
Wednesday • August 21st 2024 • 9:27:34 pm • 7KB
Studies have shown that muscle hypertrophy (growth) can occur with lower weights if the training volume is high enough. A landmark study by Schoenfeld et al. (2016) demonstrated that both high-load (heavy weights) and low-load (light weights) training can...
#1868: Gym Advice: Lifting Heavy Is A Mistake That Can Only Slow You Down
Tuesday • August 20th 2024 • 9:39:01 pm • 5KB
You have to lift what you can almost non-stop, for as long as you are willing to be at the gym. Duration of your exercise, elimination of rest, and that your exercise engages many muscles throughout. Is far more important, than the weight that you are...
#1867: The Seagull Diet; Or, What Really Happened On The Day I Learned To Love The Michigan Seagull
Monday • August 19th 2024 • 9:03:58 pm • 5KB
I first closely examined Michigan when I was ten or so, I was throwing darts at a map, in hopes of predicting my future. The dart hit just west of Detroit, so I studied it pondering if they had real Robot Cops. I did notice the lakes, but as a boy growing...
#1866: Codename Mephistopheles; Or, How Computer Programming Changes Everything
Sunday • August 18th 2024 • 8:54:54 pm • 6KB
Preface The text that follows, is a snippet out of the life of a programmer. It has been captured in hopes of showing you, that programming can be understood. It is not even that intimidating, and even programmers are often discover new words. Towards the...
#1865: How I Completely Ruined My Quest To Become Thin And Skinny
Sunday • August 18th 2024 • 12:59:10 am • 5KB
My idea was to lift light dumbbells, basically re-creating the 1980’s workouts. I just wanted to start somewhere sturdy, get some results and see where to go next. It just seemed like all the skinny people, were always dancing. I had some experience, from...