“I dream music but I cannot make any because there are no pianos here.”
— Frédéric Chopin

Upon the destruction of a possessed object, the possessor objects experience an event of dispossession.

“To protract a great design is often to ruin it.”
— Miguel de Cervantes

Choices affect abilities.

Evolution would dictate machine get better sensory input than man; but having taken evolution into our own hands, we've blindly given the machine "vision".

Periodic nutrition affects branch girth.

Leave behind, the era of climbing abstractions. Let your imagination ascend freely. Whatever you can imagine must be realizable.

“When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole.”
― Nikola Tesla, 1926

#languageTheory #regex

Proof that PCRE is more powerful than mere regex

Context-free:
a^n b^n: (a(?1)?b)

Context-sensitive:
a^n b^n c^n: (?:a(?=a*(\1?+b)b*(\2?+c)))+\1\2

Proved by Semicolon

Too much freedom of execution in an object's context leaves little room for optimizations.

Standing on the shoulders of giants leaves the rest of the land unexplored.

Work until your de factos become de jure.

The most common functionalities of function keys
• F1: help
• F2: rename/edit selected
• F3: open finder, find next
• F4: focus address bar, toggle fullscreen, close
• F5: reload, run
• F6: focus next, focus address bar
• F7: open spelling and grammar checker, open thesaurus, toggle caret browsing
• F8: open the macros dialog, safe mode
• F9: take a screenshot, refresh document
• F10: focus menu bar
• F11: toggle fullscreen, open editor
• F12: open debugger

Do not be so blinded by the idealistic and perfectionist advantages of unification and purity to ignore its disadvantage in implementation and efficiency.

Imagine exposing an infant only to formal logic, with a unified syntax and minimal symbol set instead of any natural language.

The space and time complexities for common algorithms and data structures.

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“I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark.”
— Aldous Huxley

Shape ideas and then name them; do not make up ideas for the sake of the names.

To lie convincingly; that is intelligence.

Never copy information, only refer to it.

One man's GPL is another's DSL.