There are 2 articles written in March, 2013

Learning English

on March 29, 2013. in Blablabla, Free time. A 2 minute read.

Most of my knowledge of the English language is self-taught. I had English classes in elementary school, but that was more or less singing "London bridge is falling down" and reciting a list of irregular verbs. I also had a semester of English in college, but that again consisted of reciting a list of irregular verbs (true, this time the list was longer) and reading and translating engineering texts. Good for learning how to read a technical manual, but not so much when it comes to having a conversation with other people. Other than that, it's all from computers, music, films, books.

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Saturday night hack - coords

on March 24, 2013. in Development, Programming, Software. A 4 minute read.

When I was just starting out learning programming, everything was so simple. I did not care about design patterns and best practices and unit tests and how will users use that piece of code. Hell, I did not even know those things exist. I was having fun, I was learning, I was free to do whatever I wanted to do, I was playing, I was like a child. Not that there is something wrong caring about those things now, but then I was able to put out a piece of code that was fixing a core of one problem I had and that was it. Once I was done with that, I would move on to the next problem. For a long time now I was missing that feeling of not caring, just fix the damn problem and move on. Just to slap together some crappy piece of code, use it once or twice and then forget about it.

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