Our power went off at 6am today. Found out after 8 that it is “planned maintenance”, which they didn’t actually tell anyone in the valley about.
Thanks Eskom
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Morning
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Morning can’t it be weekend?
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Morning everyone
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Morning everyone. Is it weekend already?
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Morning you beautiful fuckers 
Hope you all have a lekka day today
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Corporate merge, CEO resigns, CTO resigns, dev team shell shocked. Uncertainty ahead. Sadly offerzen has no section for software tester ;-P.
Still, I am positive I can push for bringing value to stay on. I am the only tester in a dev team of 17, testing everything in 3 projects.
I can make it work.
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You got this dude give them hell
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Morning people of the palace
Low level anxiety about exam on monday.
Ironically I can do the maths, I just cant remember the formulas and layouts
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Don’t they give you a formula sheet?
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Nope not even a small cheat sheet
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I’ve never understood why someone would set up a maths test without a formula sheet or providing the formula in the question. When will you ever have to remember a formula on the fly?
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Mornin’ folks
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I wish I knew! It is the part that causes me anxiety - the irony is if I see the formula I can do the sums
But if I cant see the formula my brain goes - F* you
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Schreier posted an update to Twitter to say that Kotaku is still alive.
After working in the press for these past 10 years, people’s reaction to stories like this has started to puzzle me.
You can disagree with the opinions of Kotaku writers when the pen reviews or opinion pieces, but you must also acknowledge that they do some of the best games journalism in the space.
It was Kotaku that published the tell-all regarding Anthem’s messed up development history, and that do so stories like the working environment at Riot Games (which resulted in changes being made), and the shady practices of Nicalis.
In a market where most gaming media are really more trade publications, Kotaku has been doing solid investigative work.
There’s a quote I often heard when I became journalist. It goes something like: Journalism is publishing something people don’t want you to. Everything else is PR.
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Ah, this is one of those quotes where it is difficult to trace the origins: Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.
Anyway… relishing in the alleged death of Kotaku is not just poor form, it’s short-sighted. The industry will be weaker for it.
I also just read that everyone at Deadspin walked out after the new owners fired an editor. That’s a great pity, I just recently read a story they did about Chinese MMA fighter Xu Xiaodong at the recommendation of a friend.
It’s such an important story and they did a great job rounding it up. Xiaodong has become an unwitting activist for freedom in China by fighting what he calls “fake martial artists”. These fakes are men who claim to masters of some ancient style of Kung Fu or Tai Chi, and who then also claim that ancient Chinese styles are superior forms of martial arts.
Xiaodong was travelling around China to take on challengers, usually knocking out these fakers in seconds even though he himself says that he is not the best MMA fighter in the world. He’s over 40 to boot.
The Chinese government has since accused Xiaodong of undermining China and traditional Chinese values, and demanded an apology. When he refused to apologise, the lowered his social score to the point where he can’t take planes or high speed trains anymore. His low social score also blocks him from riding in the first class cabins of slower trains, if I recall correctly.
Anyway, here’s the write-up:
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I only started reading Kotaku this year. Used to be an avid Rock Paper Shotgun fan. But RPS did something this year or last year that really pissed me off and I vowed not to read them anymore. Now I can’t even remember what it was but it must have been serious for me to go to Feedly and remove the feed. I’ve never done that with any of my other feeds.
But yes, I hope Kotaku continues and that they do well.
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Same with algorithms, no need to memorize them, but know when to use what
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Yeah… and in many cases you don’t even really need to know how to implement something from scratch. People have been refining many core algorithms in languages and frameworks over decades. It is really unlikely that anything I can write from scratch will be remotely as efficient as their implementation 
But I digress…
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I highly recommend those four books for anyone with a remote interest in programming (in a real language that is)
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