Советы Олигарха (трилогия)
Сергей Кареев
Прочитал где-то 2 года назад. Быстро и легко читается и есть что подчеркнуть хоть советы и правда нацелены на сливки общества.
Five Love Languages
by Gary Chapman
This is great book which I've read multiple times. First many years ago and last time about two years ago. Teaches you that relationships are hard work and not be to taken for granted.
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
- Are you lost?
- Yes
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times and a small number, really.
How many more times will you remember a certain
afternoon of your childhood... some afternoon so deeply a part of your being so that you can't conceive your life without it?Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that.
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?
Perhaps 20.And yet it all seems limitless...
The Romanovs / Романовы (2013)
This is one the best documentary series.
The Romanov dynasty played a hugely important role in world history, and the series highlights the life stories and characters of the tsars, recounting their rise to power and their contribution to the dynasty, their merits and their faults, their achievements and mistakes, their victories and defeats in war.
The series also examines the Russian form of 'Caesarism' as a system of state administration - its advantages and drawbacks and how the Russian state changed under the Romanov's rule.
THE ROMANOVS is told in eight epic one-hour episodes using a unique combination of magnificent CGI animation and dramatic reconstruction with careful and accurate attention paid to each period.
The great thing it's available for free in russian and english. Subtitles are also available, which is a great way to learn russian/english language.
Ruby Inline Tests
Did you know you can inline tests with your ruby code in the same file?
After reading the title Embedding a Test Suite in a Single-file Ruby App (Part 1) I thought: aha! finally somebody has done it and used ruby data block to store tests. However I was disappointed as there was another approach, which I think is less elegant.
Below I show you a proof of concept of embedding tests in ruby code.
Volunteering at RailsGirls Next
at Melbourne
Spend the whole today at RailsGirls Melbourne. Met many great people and had fun. It's the first time I've done it and would recommend others to do it.
I was helping RailsGirls Next group and should say exercises were too difficult and boring as they require minimum coding and mostly mathematical logic.
Volunteering at Park Run
at Albert Part, Melbourne
I hope all of your timings were correct :D
p.s. I was a time keeper
My first meetup: 'Practice riding exercises'
Today was the first meetup organised solely by me. It almost catastrophically failed though.
Every life history is the history of suffering
Every life history is the history of suffering
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Живи легко
Меняться начинаешь, только поняв, что смертельно устал смертельно уставать.
Все на свете можно испортить излишним старанием… Петь надо так, будто тебе не нужны деньги, любить – так, будто не знаешь боли, танцевать – так, будто никто на тебя не смотрит… Чтобы получалось, надо делать все не умом, а сердцем.
-- Сэтчел Пей
Warren Buffett once said
As Warren Buffett once said, the greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Gandhi
Doop Freestyle 2015 modification
Got Doop Freestyle 2015 recently. They are great and have adjustable shoe size and there is a small discomfort because of it.
Debugging Poltergeist and PhantomJS
Recently at Opensight we had weird issue with our integration tests. When we run single test it succeeds, but when whole suit it fails.
It was failing on the same "terms and conditions" page where we expect 'Accept' button: could not find element Accept
click_button 'Accept'
Психологическое айкидо
Когда тебя бьют, не уворачивайся, а подставь плечо и используй силу удара чтобы опрокинуть противника и положить его на лопатки.
Средство от бедности
Люди разные.
Мир не обязан быть удобным.
Не бойтесь совершенства - вам его не достичь.
Лучше быть последним на растущем рынке, чем первым на убывающем.
- Дорогой, у твоего сына будет ребенок.
- Это его проблемы
- Но от твоей любовницы.
- Это ее проблемы.
- А что же ты собираешься делать?
- Это мои проблемы.
- Мне все надоело, и я от тебя ухожу.
- Это твои пробелмы.
Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life, Second Edition
book by Marshall B. Rosenberg
This is one the best books I've ever read. I've read few dozens of self improvement and psychology books, but did not have a clue what this book is talking about. I would recommend it to everyone, including teenagers.
I did a small experiment and after reading each chapter I've created a summary list of highlights, first as a lesson for me to revisit each chapter and short list I could come back to in the future.
Circular dependency in Rails
This is an interesing bug I've encountered this week. While our Rails application was working in development it was completely broken in UAT environment (which is 99% production like)
We were getting Circular dependency detected while autoloading constant error on all of our reports.
Multiple logins at once with Browser Profiles
Do you:
- share same computer and login with other family members
- or you are testing website with login
Then you should know what browser profiles are.
We all make choices. But in the end, our choices make us
How The Most Successful People Manage Their Time
- Do a time log. See how long things take and when your best windows are.
- Plan the whole week. Focus on your core competency and what makes you happy.
- Have a morning ritual that gets you closer to your long term goals.
- Set 3-5 anchor events for the weekend.
- Plan something fun for Sunday night.
Differentiate your gem
Are you tired of seeing yet another project on github while there are ten others which do exactly the same thing? In this post I suggest we start to diffirentiate our projects.