July 2009
5 posts
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Science & Religion
Science and religion are not as incompatible as many seem to believe. The scientific method implies the use of logic and reason towards falsifiable theories. When you weigh pros an cons, and take into account all available evidence, there is nothing wrong with believing in a supreme being. I personally don’t believe that, bu to each his own.
I do have a problem with people who reject...
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E-mail can be hard to find, no?
For my formal request for a bachelor’s in History I needed to hand in my thesis via e-mail. I asked to make sure if I needed to include anything special with that, such as a subject line prefix, so they would be able to find it later on. The friendly lady on the phone told me that was unnecessary.
Two days later when I came into their office to hand over all other paperwork I had to wait...
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PDFs professional?
It is telling of Windows, Office and Adobe that using PDFs is considered ‘highly professional’ in the Windows-world, out of reach of the average Joe computer user.
Creating and using PDFs can and should be easy, and need not require a $799 license for bloated Adobe products. It is, in essence, just a file format.
“They’re made up. Invented. Plucked from the imagination of someone in the...”
– Martin Moore Blog: The Case of the Missing Journalists
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Using git stash branch
When using Git I sometimes end up with a bunch of changes that would really be better off in a feature branch. Here’s a quick way to take those changes in your working copy and start a feature branch quickly:
git stash
git stash branch my_branch_title
From the docs on git stash branch:
Creates and checks out a new branch named starting from the commit at which the was originally...