Better be hungry than eat whatever food
And better be alone than with whoever.
The most valuable skill of a successful entrepreneur
isn’t vision or passion or a steadfast insistence on destroying every barrier between yourself and some prize.
Rather, it’s the ability to adopt an unconventional approach to learning: an improvisational flexibility not merely about which route to take towards some predetermined objective, but also a willingness to change the destination itself. This is a flexibility that might be squelched by rigid focus on any one goal.
-- farnam street
The Red Queen Effect
In the novel, Alice finds herself running faster and faster but staying in the same place.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Churchill
-- via the week
Newport's law
Telling a young to follow their passion reduces the probability they will end up passionate.
Following your Passion is Horrible Advice
How do people end up loving what they do for a living?
- Don't follow your passion
- Be so good they can't ignore you
- Go deep
Деминг, Уильям Эдвардс
"Деминг учил, что путём принятия соответствующих принципов управления организации могут повысить качество и одновременно снизить расходы (за счёт сокращения количества отходов, переделывания, изнурения персонала и судебных разбирательств, при одновременном повышении лояльности клиентов). Ключ в том, чтобы практиковать непрерывное совершенствование и представлять производство как систему, а не как кусочки и части."
-- Деминг, Уильям Эдвардс
-- wikipedia
Speed up POW DNS Lookup
I'm using POW as a proxy to my local dev server in development. That gives me nice local *.dev domain names. However I've noticed that it takes 10 seconds to load a singe page in Chrome. Of course, I thought, It does like 80 requests as each asset is served as a separate file in development. But after investigating it a bit more DNS lookup for each request was 3 seconds and for some reasons it was like that for every single http request.
Report rake (>=0.9) exceptions to NewRelic
NewRelic service is great for application monitoring and errors tracking. However it doesn't track rake exceptions by default. You can use AirBrake gem and service, but sometimes it's too much for you. Fortunately with a bit of ruby it's easy to do it yourself.
Zeus with RubyMine 6.0 Momiji
The first version of RubyMine with Zeus support was released last week. This is a small tip how to get it working.
Order of columns in table index matters (postgres)
Today was trying to figure out why my query was running very and very slow.
gem install mysql2 - fails with MySQL 5.6.12
If you installed the latest mysql with homebrew, my version of mysql was 5.6.12. I couldn't install mysql2 gem
gem install mysql2
Principle of least astonishment
The principle of least astonishment (POLA/PLA) applies to user interface design, software design, and ergonomics. It is alternatively referred to as the rule or law of least astonishment, or the rule or principle of least surprise (POLS).
-- Wiki
I don't know who discovered water, but it wasn't a fish.
I don't know who discovered water, but it wasn't a fish.
No more “yes”. It's either “HELL YEAH!” or “no”.
No more “yes”. It's either “HELL YEAH!” or “no”.
Quickly open files in iTerm with RubyMine on MacOS
You can use RubyMine for editing but still run tests in terminal. With this tip you can click path in terminal and open that file in RubyMine.
Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it ...
Don't think what's the cheapest way to do it or what's the fastest way to do it.
Think 'what's the most amazing way to do it?'
By Richard Branson. Founder of Virgin Group
Limerence and others
Limerence is an involuntary state of mind which results from a romantic attraction to another person combined with an overwhelming, obsessive need to have one's feelings reciprocated.
-- wiki
In biology, Bateman's principle is the theory that females almost always invest more energy into producing offspring than males invest, and therefore in most species females are a limiting resource over which the other sex will compete. It is named for English geneticist Angus John Bateman (1919–1996).
-- wiki
Homogamy is marriage between individuals who are, in some culturally important way, similar to each other. Homogamy may be based on socio-economic status, class, gender, ethnicity, or religion.[1] It is a form of assortative mating.
The Scarcity Principle
The Ben Franklin effect is a psychological finding: A person who has done someone a favor is more likely to do that person another favor than they would be if they had received a favor from that person. Similarly, one who harms another is more willing to harm them again than the victim is to retaliate.
-- wiki
"all the girls get prettier at closing time" phenomenon
-- link
The Science of the Friend Zone
-- youtube
The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
-- Joseph Goebbels
and then I'm glad I've found true friends
and then I'm glad I've found true friends
-- Battle Royall
... и потом я рад что нашел настоящих друзей
-- Королевская битва
Learned optimism
Learned optimism is the idea in positive psychology that a talent for joy, like any other, can be cultivated. It is contrasted with learned helplessness. Learning optimism is done by consciously challenging any negative self talk.
-- Wiki
John Rawls
Самый справедливый свод правил — тот, с которым согласится каждый человек, не зная заранее, какой властью он будет наделен
American Beauty
Today is the first day of the rest of your life
Remember those posters that said... "Today is the first day of the rest of your life"?
Well, that's true with every day except one the day you die.
-- Lester Burnham.
Last words of Lester Burnham
I had always heard your entire life flashes... in front of your eyes the second before you die. First of all, that one second... isn't a second at all. It stretches on forever, like an ocean of time. For me, it was lying on my back... at Boy Scout camp, watching falling stars. And yellow leaves from the maple trees... that lined our street. Or my grandmother's hands and the way her skin... seemed like paper. And the first time I saw my cousin Tony's... brand-new Firebird. And Janie. And Janie. And... Carolyn.
I guess I could be pretty pissed off about what happened to me, but it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.
And then I remember to relax... and stop trying to hold on to it. And then it flows through me like rain, and I can't feel anything but gratitude... for every single moment... of my stupid little life.
You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.
But don't worry.
You will someday.
-- Last words of Lester Burnham.
We are here on Earth to help others. What the others are here for, I've NO idea
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._H._Auden
http://youtu.be/8EUy_82IChY
Russia is not a country, Russia is a lifestyle.
http://www.youtube.com/comment?lc=TMzWZDrrTRQ5lrM7JcVsD-q_Xd-D5Hx37kMMdf5s81c
Sometimes I do nothing, because sometimes nothing needs to be done.
-- http://nathanael.hevenet.com/dont-worry-about-your-productivity-worry-about-you/
Anagnorisis & Peripeteia
Anagnorisis (/ˌænəɡˈnɒrɨsɨs/; Ancient Greek: ἀναγνώρισις) is a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery. Anagnorisis originally meant recognition in its Greek context, not only of a person but also of what that person stood for. It was the hero's sudden awareness of a real situation, the realisation of things as they stood, and finally, the hero's insight into a relationship with an often antagonistic character in Aristotelian tragedy.
-- Wiki
Peripeteia /ˌpɛrəpɨˈtaɪ.ə/ (Greek: Περιπέτεια) is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature. The English form of peripeteia is peripety. Peripety is a sudden reversal dependent on intellect and logic. In modern Greek, περιπέτεια means adventure.
-- Wiki
Alfie (2004)
i don't depend on nobody, nobody depends on me, my life's my own ...
yeah, i used to think i'm the best end of the deal ... what have i got? really .. some money in my pocket, some nice threads, fancy car at my disposal and .. i'm single, unattached, free as a bird
i don't depend on nobody, nobody depends on me, my life's my own .... but i don't have a peace of mind .... and if you don't have that you've got nothing ... so.. what's the answer? that's what i keep asking myself .... what's it all about? .... you know what i mean?
-- Alfie