The One On Monday Morning

You read and learn how to write clean code.
You feel guilty about having left the mess in the code on Friday afternoon. You're aware it's messy - but there was not enough time to do something about that, you were to busy testing, trying to figure out what to do, and so you let yourself do it sloppily.
You feel guilty and can't wait to make it right first thing on Monday morning. You even dream yourself perfecting the code!
And then you come to work to see the piece of code magically cleaned and made beautifully simple and simply beautiful.
I think that was more educating then if I had actually done it myself.

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The One On The Third Thursday Of November (Or The One With Four Almost Stereotypical IT Guys And One Least Stereotypical IT Girl)

Cheers!

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The One With The Chance Encounter

Obywatel (The Citizen)

My 6-year-old niece is great at the memo game and beats everybody at it.
The Citizen is like that game. The director shows you a piece and requires you to remember every little detail of it; then, some time later, you are given another piece and required to recall that previous one. If you fail, you won't get your prize, which is the satisfaction of getting the story - the connections, the true motivations - right, and instead of a coherent plot, you may end up with a set of ill-fitted, though still funny, puzzle elements. Moreover, it takes some national and personal self-distance to appreciate the film, since - while staying witty and humorous - it is often exaggerated, reflected in a distorting mirror, and I guess not everybody may like what they see in that mirror.

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You have probably heard that U2 published a new album. What you might not have heard is that the deluxe edition of that album contains bonus tracks and alternative versions of the original songs. And - as is always the case with U2's B-sides - it's a treasure.
This one is not my favourite from the set of Songs of Innocence - but it's the one that, in my opinion, gains most when listened to in the acoustic version:

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Th One With The Illumination

Let there be Light!

I was smiling the whole time while coming back home today. I guess it was partly because I had done pretty well at my Irish stepdance classes. But mostly because I had done well at work and made a few lights turn on.
Newsflash: I have a new job!

Rewind.

Getting to know my way around the application I'm going to be developing. Found a bug that nobody else had spotted before (I was the first person to try the application on a computer using Ubuntu OS and equipped with two monitors - which were the only conditions when the fault manifested).
Easily fixable.

Rewind.

First days in my new job. I mostly keep staring at progress bars, download and configure various frameworks. Understandable, since I have to set up my work environment before I can actually start working.
Nonetheless, everything here looks promising.

Rewind.

I had been looking for a new job for almost two months. And it finally paid off. All of a sudden I got responses from almost every interview I had participated in - and everybody wanted me to work for them.
How was that possible?!

Rewind.

I've just quit my job. I got back after two weeks of vacation time and realised it wasn't worth it to stay there a day longer. It was high time for me to move on and find something new, something suited to my talents and my needs.
It was really the matter of now or never.

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