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on with parents siblings nieces nephews etc around christmastime and go to somewhere like lapland see some northern lights and generally feel the christmas vibe to the max how many kids do you want at my age i m old enough that i m very unlikely to ever have any kids of my own i was never opposed to having them but neither was it all important to me to do so favorite weather what i love the absolute most is a cool perfectly clear sunny winter s day however i enjoy a lot of different kinds of weather as well what would your last meal be there are not many circumstances in which you eat a meal knowing that it will be your last are we imagining i committed a horrible crime here maybe a homemade pizza if you could spend 24 hours anywhere any year where would you choose realistically having first seen roger s response some cunningly contrived time travel scheme here where i could set up some sort of long term investment plan that would pay off big time now i would probably go for copying his idea go visit my former self with some hot tips buy that house whatever it takes dummy it will be worth a fortune in a few years time also apple stock and when you hear about a little thing called google buy buy buy but if we weren t being so pragmatic there are plenty of times and places i d like to visit how about this give me 24 hours on the international space station not too bothered about the exact year if i were a ghost who or where would i haunt i would either haunt the white house selected inhabitants only or some eminent scientist who scoffs at the idea of ghosts perhaps i would haunt harvard university so i could unsettle generations of scoffing scientists also if you have to hang out someplace for all eternity it is not such a bad place to do it what is your family ancestry i don t know a great deal about it to the best of my very limited knowledge my ancestors were most likely pretty humble farmers coming from places where there would have been not much in the way of records kept i could be wrong though what scares you the prospect of global warming scares me esp after what we saw this summer what are you most grateful for a few years back i had some serious knee probs which thankfully were able to be completely sorted out so now i m grateful and delighted that i m fully able to walk run jump whatever dream job if i were actually capable of doing it probably being some kind of top notch scientist possibly a cosmologist do you believe in aliens if i had to guess i would say most likely there are other life forms out there somewhere but it would be much more interesting to know than to guess favorite sport fave to play is tennis but fave to watch is soccer only when played at a very high level though and in general i don t watch that much sports of any kind how do i relax after a long day if it s really been that long then vegging out and collapsing is on the menu or in more concrete terms watching some undemanding but good show on streaming while slumped on the sofa note that this is not the ideal form of evening entertainment it s just what i d have energy for if it had been a really long day if i could meet one historical figure who would i choose and why this is again a tough one as there are plenty that come to mind i ll go for richard feynman in part because i ve got enough idea of what he was like that i m pretty sure it would be fun and interesting to meet him rather than turn out badly as a teenager he was a big inspiration and i imagined he d be a great mentor spending time with him you d maybe pick up a little of his way of looking at things and it certainly wouldn t be dull if i had to be a teacher what subject would i teach although i am in no way qualified to teach it i d teach english literature at least i would be able to read and discuss some good books and perhaps be a positive influence i am interested in and far better qualified to teach various other subjects but not so keen on how they are treated at school or are forced on kids who aren t enthused describe your perfect day there s no such thing as there are many different kinds of great days one is go walking with friends somewhere beautiful say along the coast and round it off with a great meal describe yourself in a sentence mostly harmless he s just zis guy you know who makes me laugh the most douglas adams probably what super power would you choose i d take hiro nakamura s abilities favorite animal don t really have one tigers are pretty awesome though what is your biggest accomplishment probably helping various people deal with some tough situations which is probably not something i should discuss in any detail in a blog post hence the vagueness but there wasn t anything comfy about those things so that doesn t belong in a comfy questions meme anyhow posted in misc tagged memes 2 comments august 18 2018 by pasduil developer appreciation the lichess story nowadays lichess is one of the most widely used and best loved chess sites in the world remarkably it was started a few years back as a hobby project by one young french developer thibault duplessis to this day it s remained a totally free service and is an open source project thank you thank you thank you and add a million other thank yous from the chess players around the world you have made your site a second home mtnmcallister reddit ama initially thibaut simply wanted to try out certain then new web technologies for fun and decided to build an online chess game because he liked chess himself and thought it would be relatively simple to build he was not looking to get any users at all or to build a large site as the site grew in popularity he continued to work on it as a hobby project and paid all the running costs for the servers himself he argued that as the site was his hobby and he had a well paid day job to pay for such hobbies among other things there was no need for anyone else to contribute financially being an open source project people did of course join up to contribute in other ways from programming to translating the site into a large number of languages to moderating the forums eventually the site became so popular and the feature set so rich that the amount of work needed and the running costs for the servers were beyond what could be managed as a side project at this point the community stepped in with donor funding firstly for the servers and later to pay thibault a reasonable salary to enable him to work on the site full time last i knew he was backpacking the world while continuing to work on lichess funded by a modest salary paid from donations i m not doing office hours instead i m traveling around the world working from everywhere there is an internet connection some days i will only check in to see if everything is going well and if i m not needed to fix an urgent bug i ll enjoy a day of hicking diving or traveling by bus to a new town more often i ll wake up early in some cheap hostel check in with the awesome lichess team on slack empty the lichess email box about 50 mails a day but i get help and get to work fixing the bugs i wrote yesterday then writing new bugs a k a features for tomorrow titivating the servers reviewing and merging code from contributors reading reports and new ideas from the forum asking the moderation team and mobile app team how i can help taking breaks where i ll play a few correspondence moves or a couple blitz games or check out reddit then back to code and eventually before i go to sleep when lichess is the most quiet i deploy the new fixes and bugs i wrote on a good day i can put in about 15h of work sometimes 10h sometimes 5h in any case i m on duty 24h 24 7 days a week the team has my phone number and will call when something breaks tl dr lichess takes as much work as i can or want to put in thibault duplessis reddit ama if you are in interested in thibault s tale i can recommend his reddit ama plus this episode of the perpetual chess podcast and the following video both are fascinating inspiring and rather fun even if you haven t the slightest knowledge about chess they deal with topics that all developers and gamers can relate to and offer interesting insights into matters such as how to build and scale a site what makes a game site a success why open source how to make a community work how to handle cheats trolls and those out to game the system a big thank you to thibault and the lichess team for making this wonderful site posted in chess technology tagged business community pricing leave a comment august 9 2018 by pasduil books that have stayed with me today is apparently book lovers day to mark it i thought i would reblog this very relevant piece from my second blog planet pasduil it arose out of a meme in 2014 and it would be great to have a revival of that meme for book lovers day you can see many other people s books lists in the comments to my original post and via this follow up if you re a lover of books and reading you ll find plenty of other articles about that on planet pasduil as well if you would like to share your own lists you can do that in comments below or write your own post happy book lovers day planet pasduil apparently there is a meme on facebook where people are listing the books that have stayed with them in some way i first heard of this from the tolkienist because predictably enough lord of the rings and the hobbit make the top 10 of those mentioned the data is pored over in a little more detail over at the atlantic i m not much of a one for facebook but i am one for books i think lists of this kind are both fun and illuminating especially when it comes to seeing what your friends say here s my stab at identifying which books have stayed with me the most unlike the facebook meme i m not going to confine myself to fiction because plenty of non fiction jumps out at me when i think about this so in no particular order b flight by bruce carter you ve probably never heard of this but view original post 826 more words posted in books tagged memes reading review tolkien leave a comment august 7 2018 by pasduil a writing process as part of blaugust quite a few people are sharing writing tips now i m in no great position for offering tips on getting blog posts written because a i don t get that many posts written myself and b i have no process for doing blog posts at least that i am aware of consciously however while i don t have any process when it comes to blogging i did have a method for academic and business writing that i often used and which worked well for me i only remembered this when i saw a piece by telwyn describing something which has strong similarities to what i used to do what problems does this solve before getting into the method it s worth explaining why it was useful to me while i ve always been a pretty good writer and generally enjoy writing i used to run into some frequent problems procrastination brought on by staring at a blank page and wondering where and how to start feeling befuddled by the complex mass of stuff that seemed to comprise the topic i was supposed to cover and wondering how any piece of it could be explained when every piece seemed inter related to everything else after actually starting quickly getting bogged down in excessive perfectionism not making much progress on the whole because of trying to get the first few bits just so due to these problems getting things written was often quite stressful it was hard to predict how long anything would take and it wasn t uncommon to end up pulling an all nighter at the last minute to get the thing done finally i evolved this method which made things a lot less fraught the method 1 jot down headings or phrases for all the matters that should be covered to deal properly with the overall subject don t worry too much about the order of things or finding the right words for anything even the headings this is somewhat of a brain dump and could look vaguely like a mind map with some lines between connected topics as you might guess from this description i often found it better to do this step on a large pad of paper first rather than electronically 2 expand on one of the headings putting down what you want to say about it this bit is now electronic no actual writing prose on paper don t necessarily go through headings in order if stuck for what to say on one section just go to another or just work on the one that grabs you first equally don t worry about such things as phrasing things well a proper flow or any other writerly concerns just get down what needs to be said about each subtopic keeping going until all the subheadings are done 3 review whether the structure makes sense often after things have been put down it s clear that the most logical order is a bit different to the one you first came up with in electronic documents especially word docs things can easily be restructured 4 now polish up to make the thing well written and readable improve the clarity expand on things that might not be self evident to readers put in those nice segues from one section to another add explanations of how what we discussed in section 4 applies to section 5 etc 5 if appropriate to the type of piece write conclusions recommendations management summary etc that sums up what you had to say 6 if writing to a word limit trim or expand as needed in my case i normally have to work to make things more concise even if there s no word limit it s useful for me to check if i can say things in a simpler and more readable way 7 finalize pretty up sort out things like a table of contents and publish applicable to blogging i suspect that while i don t do any of this consciously for blog posts i used the method enough times before there even were such things as blogs that to an extent it s become semi automatic for me and i do use elements of the method unconsciously blog posts are usually short enough that the headings don t have to be set out explicitly but are just jotted down mentally i then feel comfortable banging out a first cut confident that there will be another pass or two to bring sanity to the mess later on when everything seems publication ready there is that last check and while there are no tables of contents and the like to add it s at that point i think about things like tags finally i hit publish optimistically you could say that maybe my writing skills have gone through those three classic stages of development 1 conscious incompetence 2 conscious competence 3 unconscious competence posted in misc tagged blogging creativity nbi writing 2 comments august 3 2018 by pasduil a paradox of play in my last post i presented reasons why play is an important part of life is highly beneficial to both children and adults and is most likely a biological necessity not only for humans but many types of animal as well this being so why don t we take play more seriously i think part of the explanation lies in a paradox about play this is 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