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Hey Tim,

I knew what you were trying to get at, but wanted to point out that the sentence that you initially wrote wasn't entirely accurate.

Of course I agree that attitude matters, but skills are certainly important, hence my comment.

I know loads of hairdressers that have a good attitude.

Oona's work is always amazing. Loads of interesting hardware stuff in her blog. I wish I would be better at some mechanical engineering/electrical engineering stuff, my work is mostly web-related or big data stuff, never really get my hands dirty :(

London and Berlin have 3).

Cheers, thanks!

Alright, got it. Thanks!

I didn't watch the numberphile video and just read this.

Can someone explain to me why I am allowed to add a padding zero at the start without taking it out at the end?

By adding it, I am giving the sum an offset, and I can kind of understand why adding zero is not a big deal, but they reasoned:

Then S1 + S1 = (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)

= (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (0 + 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)

= (1 + 0) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) ....

= 1 + 0 + 0 ... = 1

But I might as well leave the leading Zero out and argue that:

Then S1 + S1 = (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)

= (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...) + (1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ...)

= (1 + 1) + ( -1 - 1) + (1 + 1) ....

= (2 - 2) + (2 - 2) + (2 - 2)... = 0

This is great, thanks! I unminified it first to look at the code, but it looks like its not doing anything nasty.

Who has the copyright for these images?

Exactly.

The same is probably true for this one here:

public bool ShowOptional() { bool bolReturn = false;

    return bolReturn;

}

There should be descriptions why the code snippets are supposed to be interesting, your and my example just look like legacy code to me.

sure, but specific instances of both are sometimes baffling.

Yes, if you have an IDE you don't have this problem at all.

I am more with the VIM/Emacs crowd though I guess.

I didn't know though that you could create an "evaluation window" in Eclipse. I really liked the refactoring features in Eclipse though and miss them sometimes.

Well, I looked into it but gave up soon-ish because it looked to annoying and my hack was sufficient for me at the time.

Ah, I forgot to mention gdb as well. gdb and python hooked me on this way of developing.