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Harnessing the Outrage Machine

South Park’s S19E1 episode, introducing the ‘PC Principal’, seemed to have upset some people. (e.g. this tweet, this tweet.
– For what it’s worth, the episode doesn’t say ‘political correctness is bad’, nor ‘social justice is bad’, and it certainly isn’t pandering to say these things are great. - The episode clearly attacks the disproportionate, abusive, bullying endorsed by [...]

Posted at September 19, 2015 | read more

Thoughts on Facebook Dislike Button

So, recently it hit my newsfeed that Facebook was working on a ‘dislike button’.
Except it’s not going to be a ‘dislike’ button, so much as a ‘condolences’ button; for giving one’s regards if a post isn’t appropriate to ‘like’.
– This subtlety didn’t particularly reach the many who failed to read past a headline title. (That is, [...]

Posted at September 17, 2015 | read more

Can We Play a Little Nicer?

It’d be nice if we could raise the level of public discourse.
Or, rather, can we talk to each other less stupidly? D’you think it’s reasonable that we can come together and talk about complicated issues without treating the people we disagree with as idiots? – Is there a country wherein political discussions are exchanges/arguments of the best ideas [...]

Posted at September 9, 2015 | read more

Watching Videogames

I kinda think action movies are boring.
I recently watched Fast & Furious 7. I loved it! It wasn’t as quite as stupid or bad as I’d heard it might be. It was good fun, despite being more “Furious” (gunplay/fights) than “Fast” (cars & such). – But despite my love for the absurdly-cool Saturday-morning-cartoon-ish idea of a bus which [...]

Posted at August 28, 2015 | read more

Tips to Make Windows 10 Suck Less

Windows 10 has been pretty great so far. WHY HAS NO ONE MENTIONED WORKSPACES?
I always heard Windows 10 hyped up as a marriage of Windows 8 and Windows 7. Sure, I heard that Win 10 was going to have a ‘package manager’, just-like-Linux, but no one mentioned the workspaces.
Sure, I still don’t know the shortcut keys. [...]

Posted at August 22, 2015 | read more

Reflection on My Reflection

It’s been a year since I took CS3216 at NUS.
It’s quite a fun course, working on web app technologies. (For context of those who aren’t aware, almost all the coursework involves teamwork, and entry to the course is by-way-of application.). – I want to reflect on one of the blogposts I wrote; but to say “hey, what I [...]

Posted at August 18, 2015 | read more

Curious About GoodReads Reviews and Bullying

Preamble (Bullying is Bad, Try Telling the Bullies That) Amazon and GoodReads are both prominent places to review books. – My Humble Opinion is to prefer GoodReads, since I don’t use Kindle. I’ve written before about GoodReads: Wondering if people who read books more were less impressed by good books than people who weren’t as well read; and looking at [...]

Posted at August 13, 2015 | read more

Tabs vs Spaces and Elastic Tabs

I was surprised to discover I’ve not written about “tabs vs spaces” before, despite all my love for writing about editors. What’s “Tabs vs Spaces” All About? The less something matters, the more programmers will argue over it. (No, not “bikeshedding”, which is similar, but doesn’t quite account for things like programmers arguing over different programming languages.).
Grammarians are [...]

Posted at August 12, 2015 | read more

Open Letter Regarding Kate Breslin's "For Such a Time", and Diversity in Romance

So, Sarah Wendell’s Letter to the RWA regarding “For Such a Time” came to my attention; shortly after Suleikha Snyder’s rundown of RWA did. Snyder’s Post Snyder’s post is easier to summarise: She first says how great it was to meet with friends at RWA, then goes on to lament her other experience she describes as “a convergence of microaggressions.”. [...]

Posted at August 9, 2015 | read more

Impressions of Emacs and Org Mode

I’m a moderately capable Vim user.
I’ve not quite gained the habit of trying to constantly improve using Vim; but at the same time, I’m not exactly using it as something only slightly better than Notepad++. Lately I’ve been taking quick glances at Emacs.
I was impressed by this post from GitHub user bling, who suggests that Vim [...]

Posted at August 7, 2015 | read more

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