programming What is in a name? I was about to submit my PR after having worked on it for an afternoon. The code I was writing was not too complex. I had spent more time investigating it than writing it and I was feeling good about myself. I took one
Awareness for improvement If you are unaware of yourself, you cannot improve yourself I have recently noticed that as my life has gotten busier, I have had less and less time to reflect
Parent, please stop trying to teach your kids to stop acting like you A child only really learns from your actions and your words. I have seen so many parents try to teach their child not to be like them. They yell and
Monty Hall Problem Re-framed Hmm. Embarrassingly enough, it took me 2 years since first hearing the Monty Hall problem to understand the answer. I would oscillate between a feeling of being close to an
Believe the better story No one has any idea how their life will turn out. No one knows the consequences of their choices or how the life they live today will determine their future.
The Kingdom Awaits You are a boy just living his life. A girl trying to just make it through. The man trying to just provide for his family. The woman trying to just
Matebook X Pro I love this laptop. It is a beautiful machine. On the hardware level, I haven't found a single thing I hate about it. In every catagory, it has simply impressed me on every level. I don't want to talk about specs, because there are
Installing Ubuntu 18.04 on Surface Pro 3 I am not writing this from the perspective of an expert but rather from someone who has spent the last couple of days doing the same things over and over again expecting different results. I cannot express how frustrating this whole installation process has
spiritual Neglecting what you already have while you seek what is out of your grasp Please forgive the abysmally ugly title I have plastered on this article. Hopefully, I will have fixed that by the time I finish this and you will be wondering what I am talking about. As people, we tend to focus on the things that
Christian Economics *All gifts accept material donations as defined below Material price required - The amount of money that is required to acquire the gift. Gift cannot be acquired without payment of this sum Material Donation - The amount a person might give. The difference between
Apple Vs. FBI : Why I think Apple is right Note This article was written during the height of the FBI case against Apple to force it to create a version of it's OS that doesn't put a limit on the number of attempts to unlock. I didn't publish it for various reasons but
Avoiding tasks you don't like, eh? Is there work you normally avoid? Do you plan your day around maximizing the number of tasks you love to do and minimizing the number of tasks that aren't as interesting? It is such a natural habit for us to find admittedly creative ways
daily Fulfillment of our Ancestors' Dreams Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran,
How to Interview a Developer Finding the right people to work with on a project is one of the first problems you run into when trying to grow your company. It is absolutely essential that you get the process right (notice how I said the process, not the actual
How we affect others He [Noah] drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent. - Gen 9:21 Noah, the only one who was found to be worth saving from all of humanity was found drunk and knocked out. Whatever his reason for
Know thyself ... the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth... Genesis 8:21 A lot of times we struggle and are often blindsided by our own evil desires. We are surprised and caught off guard when our image of ourselves as the ultinate champion
Not everyone died from the flood And all flesh died that moved on the earth, birds, livestock, beasts, all swarming creatures that swarm on the earth, and all mankind. Everything on the dry land in whose
Does God Change His Mind? The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord
How August locked me out of my apartment I am a tech nerd who finds pleasure in having and using any gadget or tech that is remotely useful (pun intended). So, it's with great pain that I must
Seth ...At that time people began to call upon the name of the Lord. Gen 4:26 It was when Seth became the head of the family of Adam that for
Hardship for others If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same
False Prophets and Prophecies Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves. - Matthew 7:15 Initially, I had been thinking to rant a little bit about the wrong things that false prophets are doing to us
Scarier than death I was recently contemplating death. I have never been very afraid of death, having been raised in a Christian family. Not that I am fatalistic, but the belief that I
