From newsletter about the traffic problems near the High Tech Campus Eindhoven: “Public transport and cycling (healthy!) are in surprisingly many cases a good alternative [to your own car].” What are the odds this is written by someone who a) never tried the bus, and b) lives somewhere where they can’t see the Dutch weather? […]

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I have a constant named NO_GAIN. It makes sense in the context of my program, but I’m still itching to write #ifndef PAIN const static signed char NO_GAIN = 0; #endif …it would even still work in my code, and defining PAIN would yield a lot of painful compile errors… […]

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Turns out, working two jobs sometimes takes a lot of time. So far this week, I’ve logged 34.5 hours on one and 10 on another. The big caveat, however, is I still have to spend all night today reviewing papers if I want to spend Valentine’s day the way it’s supposed to be spent: drunk […]

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