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Thanks for the feedback!

1. You mean as you're reviewing videos? Yeah, I need to figure that out 2. I use it for BJJ. What other things besides martial arts could benefit from this? It's hard to imagine tech conference videos being used here :) 3. The UI sucks, but it gets the job done for now. I'm working on making it have a better experience.

Reading this inspired me to make my first Atom contribution: a bug fix for the settings view. I'm very happy about giving back to the editor that I love.

I wonder when somebody will put together a book called Murakami's Kitchen - The Collected Recipes From All His Books

True, listening to music and drinking alone at bars happens a lot. Not sure I remember any nightclubs.

Love it!

That's a very astute observation. I read Norwegian Wood first, but that is so different from most his other works and I didn't love it. I don't remember which one I read after that, but I got hooked around the 2nd or the 3rd.

Common themes: a guy, living on his own (or with an often absent girlfriend), cooking simple dishes while drinking beer after working out. He has an ear fetish. There is a cat somewhere. Some magic realism and lots metaphors.

Also, I finished 1Q84 recently. It took me 3 years, mainly because it was pretty dull and I read other stuff at the same time.

This epiphany he writes about sounds almost religious in nature. Did he really not consider writing before that? Does his memory fail him, is this a memory construct that makes for a good story but doesn’t hint at what really happened? I’ve never experienced anything like this myself.

I often tell people, when asked about why I do what I do, that I knew I wanted to be a software developer at the age of 10. But it wasn’t a sudden realisation. It came to me after getting an Amiga 500, playing games and then realising I could make my own games. I vividly remember a summer trip to my aunt’s place in Norway where I brought a book on BASIC and devoured a tutorial on how to make a hotel booking system. I was utterly enthralled and thought “maybe one day I can make hotel booking systems for a living”. From then on there was little doubt I would do this.

Except of course when I turned 13 and got into playing rock music on my guitar. I spent the next 7 years feeling lost, because I really wanted to be a musician but the career opportunities seemed unfeasible. It wasn’t until after a brief stint as a data entry clerk in the UK that I came to the conclusion that I needed to get my shit together and go to uni. So I studied Computer Science and here I am at the ripe age of 35 with 10 years of software development experience, thinking I always knew I wanted to do this. But I didn’t, and writing this made me realise that.

I haven't read that particular one, but probably have it in a bookshelf somewhere. My wife is a big Murakami fan and I've read almost all of them. I will make that the next one on my fiction reading list, thanks!

I particularly enjoyed A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance, whereas my wife loves Kafka on the Shore (which I didn't like). Funny that...

Great slides, they made me LOL a few times

I'm not sure that's how I understood the article. Did you see the part that said "This proved kale’s powers as a hyperaccumulator, but it disproved, or at least shook, his belief that coal ash was the culprit."

It's going to be interesting to see how Mono going to be affected by the Microsoft's recent cross-platform activity.

Too bad they are no more...

I did something similar in 2013, see my blog: http://peterevjan.com/posts/a-week-of-no-media-consumption/

In the end, it forced me to be more creative and social, but didn't produce any lasting change. I need to keep forcing myself to turn off internet etc to be able to get creative stuff done during evenings and weekends. Sad but true.

This is awesome, I hope more do this!

He put it beautifully.

However, if you assume that people are smarter than you, that could lead to you listening to them more than you should, holding back in voicing concerns and sharing opinions that seem right and important to you.

It seems it's a good thing I made a resolution to really grok JavaScript during 2015.

Also, sad to see Ruby usage go down. It's my day-to-day language. But then again, it's just a language/tool.

You mean internally?

I love Steve's writing and it would be a mistake not to listen to him

Huzzah, the project is still alive! I assumed it was abandoned a long time ago and switched to Atom, but I hope Sublime 3 comes out soon.

Instagram as well

Yup

There is also Google's Traceur, which "is a JavaScript.next-to-JavaScript-of-today compiler that allows you to use features from the future today"

https://github.com/google/traceur-compiler

A few come to mind: boxing (incl thai boxing and MMA), golf, ice hockey, bandy. So many swingin' sports!

Thank you, Ruby Central!

This doesn't mean that downloads from steamdb.info or steamstatic.com are legit. Tread carefully, I'll wait until there's a link from an official site.

2014: the year of the linux gaming console?

Yes, people expressing regret over using Ruby because of this seems a bit over the top.

And I liked the blog post, thanks for sharing.

Let me assure you that I am very serious about this, I did not write it just to get a spike in visitors to my site. I have no ads on my site, more visitors don't make much of a difference to me other than spreading the word and getting more people to challenge me.

Yes, and I'm not advocating for us choosing one language for all eternity. If Mandarin or Hausa become the next de facto business languages in the area I live in, I'd learn them.

Yes, not disagreeing with you there.

And no, I don't think so.