Enforcing coding conventions
It’s Black Friday which means that in most of the United States people are out shopping taking the advantage of supposedly great deals. I’m not indulging because I try to only buy stuff when I...
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It’s winter break which means that I have a good amount of free time on my hands. Though I’m all in favor of sitting around and doing nothing, I do get bored after a few days of that and tend to look...
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After almost a month and a half I’m back in a position to write The ByteBaker on a regular basis again. Instead of a lengthy explanation and reintroduction, I’m going to dive right in. At the end of...
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I think the world owes a debt of gratitude to Malcolm Gladwell. To my knowledge his book “Outliers” was the first popular work to expound at length on the 10,000 hour rule: the scientifically grounded...
View ArticleSalvaging Dead Time and Procrastiworking
The last few weeks have been another continuous episode of “too much to do, too little time”. Graduate school is a very interesting environment from a work and productivity standpoint. On the one hand...
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