Complex Ruby concepts dummified by Matt Aimonetti
The 10X Samurai
TLDR; If you haven’t seen 13 Assassins yet, do so.
We watched 13 Assassins last night. At one point, the assassins find themselves facing tremendous odds, outnumbered ten to one.
It seems insurmountable until you realize they only have to kill ten each.
Programmers aren’t samurai, they’re not ninja, and they’re not rockstars, but cultivating skill is universal. There’s a lot to be learned from this movie
- Bad tools can’t suppress skill.
No sword? - use a stick!
No stick? - use a rock!
No rock? - use your fists and feet.
- A flurry of moves can be outweighed by a single well chosen stroke. Watch Kuranaga’s fight scenes. Every swing makes contact so he doesn’t really move. Measure twice and you need cut once.
- Economy of movement is even more important in long, arduous battles. A skilled practitioner knows when to expend and conserve their finite energy.
- The greatest talent is a talent for hard work. Samurai, in this film, were born into the role, but the pawn shops are filled with swords.
- Background doesn’t matter when good samurai are hard to come by
- Numbers can’t overcome skill.
I thought samurai would be fun but you bore me. You’re useless, even more useless in great numbers.
NASA Discovers First Earth-size Planets Beyond Our Solar System
NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system
I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m from the Fire Nation, but you don’t need to be a firebender to know there’s something wrong in this nation when an air nomad, his waterbender girlfriend and her brother, a blind earthbender, and a Kyoshi warrior can save the world, but our kids can’t openly burn them to the ground.
As Phoenix King, I’ll end Avatar Aang’s war on the Fire Nation. And I’ll fight against water, earth, and air attacks on our destructive heritage.
Fire made our nation strong. It can make her strong again.
I’m Fire Lord Ozai and I approve this message.
(via lolbender)
segment from pbs newshour on the medical science of regenerating limbs (check out the beating heart built in a jar)
“Where is Curiosity?”
As NASA tracks the mars science laboratory’s journey to its destination, they update simulated views of its voyage so we can follow along.
4,5 Million years of human evolution in one picture
Chronologically, the oldest on the left (the black one next to the chimp) is Australopithecus afarensis AKA “Lucy” dated at aprox. 3,2 millon years and if you follow clockwise you end with Homo sapiens.
from rr2211 on reddit.com/r/evolution
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