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06 April 2013 ~ Comments Off

Learning to Type

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One of my biggest struggles as a developer is probably something a lot of people, particularly software professionals, take for granted. I don’t know how to touch type. Growing up, I was never enrolled in any type of keyboarding class in grade school. I was also never more than a casual computer user until the end of my first year of college, which gave me plenty of time to form bad habits.

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15 May 2012 ~ Comments Off

Inspiration: The Water Clocks of Bernard Gitton

Not long ago, I had an interesting lunchtime discussion with Job Vranish. I don’t recall exactly how we got on the topic, but we were discussing how mesmerizing siphons are. As the discussion progressed to imagining a fluid-based computer (that’s another story…), I remembered something I had seen as a child at the Indianapolis Children’s museum: an immense clock that kept time with the flow of water through glass tubes.

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