My personal blog
Archive for June 2009
http://tinyurl.com/ksgfsr #Powered by Twitter Tools.
Kübler-Ross originally applied these stages to people suffering from terminal illness, and later to any form of catastrophic personal loss (job, income, freedom). This may also include significant life events such as the death of a loved one, divorce, drug addiction, or an infertility diagnosis.
Kübler-Ross also claimed these steps do not necessarily come in the order noted above, nor are all steps experienced by all patients, though she stated a person will always experience at least two. Often, people will experience several stages in a “roller coaster” effect – switching between two or more stages, returning to one or more several times before working through it. Significantly, people experiencing the stages should not force the process. The grief process is highly personal and should not be rushed, nor lengthened, on the basis of an individual’s imposed time frame or opinion. One should merely be aware that the stages will be worked through and the ultimate stage of “Acceptance” will be reached. However, there are individuals that struggle with death until the end. Some psychologists believe that the harder a person fights death, they are more likely to stay in the denial stage. If this is the case, it is possible the ill person will have more difficulty dying in a dignified way.
Powered by Twitter Tools.
English is lingua franca de facto. How Chinese compares to it?
Unlike English, you have to sing the tones. And this may prevent Chinese to be a universal language.
There is no equivalent of pidgin english in Chinese - this sort of English a russian-speaking person living in Germany (me) uses to speak with Estonian collegues I’m also using it for this article.
“Pidgin Chinese” would omit tones and use Pinyin to write words. Like with pidgin english, it would be very hard to understand by a normal chinese speaker, but it still could be a basis for another lingua franca. And I suppose many foreigners unable to get the tone right are already speaking it
Powered by Twitter Tools.
It is surprisingly hard to find enjoyable english translations of Russian Silver Age poetry. While it is an important topic (and personally, my favorite) in the Russian culture and particularly in Russian poetry, Silver Age seems to be largely unknown outside.
Business is about creating value.
“Value” is here… um… pretty anything that is of value: products, services, capital, information, emotions, health, security (taking over risks) or things leading to value (like software features or legal regulations). When value is created, it can be sold to customers in exchange to other kinds of value.
Normally, you have to invest some existing value to create new value. But sometimes, it is not the case. Especially in software development, you can often see how a new value is created as a by-product, or even because of NOT doing something.
On his way to seniority, every junior software developer has to deal with commenting source code. Usually, it starts with following a recommendation from his favorite programming book. The novice developer is so exited that a program he has written himself, with his own fingertips, compiles, runs and breathes that he is eager to follow any advice from his book, even without clear understanding of reasons and consequences of his doing. So, comments like
i++; //increment i
arise.
In the future may be, you never know… #Powered by Twitter Tools.
