Translated literature is interesting and I've recently read a few differing views on the "best" translations of Homer.

I've resigned myself that I simply must trust the masses in some places and I won't be learning Russian to read Tolstoy authentically.

I have at least a half a dozen times where I was pointed his direction from another professor and Kernighan spent an hour with me looking into how to scrape a dynamic website for my auction theory project. When he was stumped he introduced me to a professor at another school who he knew had looked into the topic.

It's onerous sometimes, and often weird, but it's no more difficult to purchase liquor in Utah than in a state like Virginia.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spring19/cos333...

Brian Kernighan has a knack for explaining languages very precisely and elegantly.

Where does one start when looking at a github like this - where's the "game loop" actually live?

The lack of focus on graphics meant that complexity of description and systems didn't need to have visual work to go along with it, which allowed for much more complex systems than I'd seen in any game at the time.

I never got reprimanded, but I did have to sheepishly explain to a coworker that I drank his soda thinking it was one of the community ones since it was in the door of the fridge and unmarked.

I now work at a company with an extensive free kitchen and you have to do an extremely good job of marking your personal food since the default assumption will now be that the food is everyones.

On the other hand, my mother is a bit compulsive about her fitbit, though I see some real benefit. On days where she sees she's below her target, she opts to walk when she otherwise wouldn't or goes outside for a walk to make sure she meets the target. It's definitely causing her to be healthier than she otherwise would be.

EDIT: No way to edit old posts, but the link I posted is obviously a rip-off of the Q42 app linked elsewhere.

Simple rules and can get surprisingly difficult.