Casual

On a sunny spring day, during the lunch break, we were playing football in the schoolyard and got scolded by the vice principal. That evening, our last two classes were geometry. Our teacher was explaining Euclidean relations, repeatedly stating the formulas for us to write down and emphasizing how important it was to take notes. While loudly and clearly repeating the formulas, he made eye contact with me, saw that I wasn’t taking notes, and, with a slight hint of frustration, continued the lesson. ...

I have seen a LinkedIn post last night and it prompted a lot of thoughts I wanted to share. It’s not specific to this exact post, I have been hearing & reading a lot of different versions of the same idea. For those who doesn’t want to click to an external link, here is the content of the post: Django Developer says Python is king. Node.js Developer says Javascript is the future. Android Developer swears by Kotlin. Java Developer stands by Java. iOS Developer loves Swift. But, ‘Software Engineers’ know and understand: Languages come and go, and trends change, but the core concepts of coding will always stay the same. Master the fundamentals, and you’ll adapt to any language. ...

While working at EnglishCentral, my friend Burak and I, were sent to the company’s office in America for a month right after we were graduated. Due to jetlag, I was falling asleep around 7-8 PM and waking up around 2-3 AM. I would wake up at three in the morning and read Patrick Rothfuss’s The Kingkiller Chronicle series until work hours. I read for hours, returned directly to my hotel after work, and continued reading. While my other friends who came to Boston were traveling around New York and Salem, my only desire was to return to my room. I was even declared the most frugal visitor in the office (they were probably kind enough not to announce that I was also the most antisocial). ...

You probably know that the concept of “writing” was invented by some Mesopotamian people called Sumerian (Some Mesoamerican folks also independently discovered it, though much later than Sumerians did). Have you ever thought, though, how they invented it? Because when you think about it, it’s actually quite a hard task. They had to learn how to decompose a continuous sound into a speech unit, or how to even recognize that sound in all the places it’s used in the language, find symbols to represent those and whatnot. Somehow, they managed to do it. Let’s dive into the details. ...