Author: dq

The once in a century occurrence we are all going through can be horrendous; it can be frightening; it almost certainly will, at the very least, move our […]

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Either rushing ahead on whatever path seems to lie open, or painful, stubborn resistance; both of these behaviors are symptoms of a life with no self-control, no self-guidance. […]

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So: A few weeks ago I was requested by my team lead to dive into a schema that had been set up to record user activity in a […]

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Let’s say we download a bunch of public domain data that we’re considering for use in a service we’re building. Like so much of the data grudgingly made […]

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Just as the old churches, once so central to daily human experience that it was impossible to imagine life without them (if one even thought to try), so […]

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Elections are like trench warfare between large powerful opponents. Heavily contested and lasting over many months, each side’s move is quickly countered, ending in stalemate and eventually a […]

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For whatever reason, when using using Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Android app on my cheapo Chromebook to connect through the corporate firewall to my day-job computer, I experience significantly […]

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About a year ago, after changing yet another swiftly-drained ink cartridge, I swore off HP forever and marched down to the store and got myself a Brother printer. […]

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So it had been another jittery, monkey-minded day. I had dosed myself earlier on with some bread and cookies and it was now evening, and I was walking […]

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I have been thinking about personality traits that may be relevant to startup founders, and the two dimensions that keep coming to mind are, firstly, the extrovert/ introvert […]

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