Envision Yourself Exactly Where You Want To Be. What Motivates You? Picture That, And Never Let It Go.

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

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Fun fact: the plural form of octopus is actually octopodes (oct-op-o-tees) since octopus isn’t an English word nor a Latin word. Octopuses would be the English form if octopus was an English word. Octopi would be the plural form if octopus was a Latin word. However, octopus is a Greek word which means that the grammatically correct plural form of octopus is octopodes.

My kink? Knowing all the information

I googled science pick-up lines and I was not disappointed

You’re so hot, you denature my proteins. 

Do you have 11 protons? ‘Cause you’re Sodium fine!  

You make my anoxic sediments want to increase their redox potential. 

I’m more attracted to you than F is attracted to an electron. 

We fit together like the sticky ends of recombinant DNA. 

You’re hotter than a bunsen burner set to full power. 

If I were a neurotransmitter, I would be dopamine so I could activate your reward pathway. 

According to the second law of thermodynamics, you’re supposed to share your hotness with me. 

How about me and you go back to my place and form a covalent bond?

I wish I were Adenine because then I could get paired with U.

If you were C6, and I were H12, all we would need is the air we breathe to be sweeter than sugar.

I want to stick to u like glue-cose.

You must be the one for me, since my selectively permeable membrane let you through. 

real talk tho you might feel like you aren’t doing enough or you’re behind or you haven’t set yourself up well enough and you aren’t in the right place but you can still work it out and there are beautiful, amazing things ahead of you. two years ago I had a 2.8, was on the verge of losing my scholarship, had no idea how to study, and wouldn’t have been able to handle a research position even if I knew how to get one. now I’m working in a lab, have tons of research experience, co-authored a publication, have an amazing advisor who is helping me with a honors thesis, and am set to do eight months of paid research abroad next semester. (and the 2.8 is now a 3.6). it’s not over, it can get better, you aren’t a failure, and wonderful things are waiting.

“We are assuming here that the user is competent. In reality this is always false. Users are very dumb and will do weird things.”

Intro to Computer Programming Professor (via mathprofessorquotes)

right, if you are in college and are a cs major or a budding software developer, i highly recommend you to check out the architecture of open source applications, especially the 500 lines or less section. architects, artists etc look at thousands of buildings/paintings  throughout their lifetimes, critique them, learn what’s worked and what didn’t. most software developers, however, do not share that experience - unless it’s with a codebase they have written themselves. 

reading other people’s code is JUST as important as writing code of your own. i especially recommend the projects/documentation in 500 lines or so section b/c while they are big enough for you to understand basic system design, 500 lines of code isn’t too overwhelming. plus it’s super cool to read about building a database built from archeological principles or how the code behind pedometers works

The thing about computer programming is that it’s a complete pain in the ass when you’re trying to figure out the problem, yet when you finally solve it, when you finally have that aha moment, the feeling of accomplishment is unlike anything you’ve felt when you’ve accomplished something. You think holy shit, I can make technology work, and that feeling is totally worth the long stretch of hours or even days when computer programming feels like a pain in the ass.

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