The sun was a pewter coin in a leaden sky.
It’s confession time: I don’t like test names. Technically they’re method names, but they’re never called explicitly. That alone should make you somewhat suspicious. I consider method names found within tests to be glorified comments that come with all the standard warnings: they often grow out of date, and are often a Code Smell emanating from bad code. Unfortunately, most testing frameworks make test names mandatory, and you should spend the time to create helpful test names.
But the country’s grim history also helps explain why they are so determined not to give ground to the demonstrators in Hong Kong who want to replace the territory’s fake democracy with the real thing. Xi Jinping, China’s president, and his colleagues believe that the party’s control over the country is the only way of guaranteeing its stability.
Because cats pursued their own secret agendas, did they make untrustworthy familiars?
Reading more data than you absolutely need to read is really expensive, because seeking to a new location in a file takes a long time.
That same nagging question comes to me at night: Am I or am I not hallucinating all this? Also, I have this urge to order a synthy about saddling giant rats. I keep seeing bridles, bits, sleek fur. Regret for a lost age of confusion in a time of such complete tranquility? Truly, the human soul is impossible to fathom.
Yes, education destroys. Twenty-five years continuously, from the kindergarten to the postgraduate courses in university, it goes on destroying in you whatsoever is beautiful and aesthetic. The lotus is crushed under scholarship, the rose is murdered by the so-called professors, teachers, vice-chancellors, chancellors.
Some people have views of God that are so broad and flexible that it is inevitable that they will find God wherever they look for him. One hears it said that ‘God is the ultimate’ or ‘God is our better nature’ or ‘God is the universe.’ Of course, like any other word, the word ‘God’ can be given any meaning we like. If you want to say that ‘God is energy,’ then you can find God in a lump of coal.
A program can only do what it’s programmed to do, to the letter of the law. Unfortunately, what’s written doesn’t always coincide with what the programmer intended the program to do.
The core of the problem comes back to the same inescapable fact that has both blocked climate action and accelerated emissions: all of us are living in the world that neoliberalism built, even if we happen to be critics of neoliberalism. In practice that means that, despite endless griping, tweeting, flash mobbing, and occupying, we collectively lack many of the tools that built and sustained the transformative movements of the past.
Maybe it’s not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.
If I had to run a company on three measures, those measures would be customer satisfaction, employee satisfaction and cash flow. ” Jack Welch, former CEO of GE.
Sometimes you have to feel the pain for a while; let it make an imprint on your heart, scar you a little. This is the only way we learn.
Todos los pensamientos basados en el propio yo tienden a limitar la vasta mente.
The easy, conventional choice is always available to you, but the rewards are commensurately small. Great strategy is about using unconventional thinking to figure out what you have to offer the world and how you can promote what you do best.
What she was feeling was either the beginnings of a myocardial infarction, or it was love.
As Eleanor Roosevelt observed, “No one can hurt you without your consent.” In the words of Gandhi, “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.
The old, hard, humorous head was pulled in, and the thick tail slapped in under the shell, and when the cat grew tired of waiting for it and walked off, the turtle headed on southwest again.
You want to be consumed, not smothered. A fire needs air to burn bright.
She was captured by him. Lost in him. “I can’t breathe when you look at me like that.” “Like what?” He traced her cheek with his thumb. “Like I love you? Because I do. More than I ever thought possible.