How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this?

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Gattaca (1997):

“- Anton Freeman: Vincent! How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this? We have to go back.
– Vincent: It’s too late for that. We’re closer to the other side.
– Anton Freeman: What other side? You wanna drown us both?
– Vincent: You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”

(via »; Loren Dean – Anton Freeman; Ethan Hawke – Vincent Freeman)

I like this quote so much!

The perseverance, the continuous search, the struggle.

It’s all so real!

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Specialists

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Ed Yourdon - Jets-Dolphin game, Nov 2009 - 020

Once, I wanted to install an internal floppy disk drive on my own.

As you might expect, it didn’t work.

I returned it, but it would have been better if I went to a specialist, and avoided taking any risks.

I wanted to change a UPS battery until someone informed me of the enormous voltage stored in there. I stopped immediately and canceled any thoughts of doing this on my own.

Once, I once tried to connect a power source to a graphics card. It didn’t go well.

At some point, I tried to defragment a hard drive, but it broke the hard drive. I did this a few times.

Asking for help is never wrong.

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On politics

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Thomas Hawk - Politics

I know someone who likes to speak about politics.

Yet, when taking action, that person has room to improve – it rarely votes, doesn’t volunteer in the field, doesn’t start a party.

Yes, it’s nice to know a lot of things about sports, but how about doing sports, instead?

Instead of watching a 90-minute match of football, how about running for 15 minutes and doing some push-ups?

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Predictions skill

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I don’t think most people can predict what will happen.

Many years ago, a friend asked me – “I want to launch a website with funny videos and things like that”.

I told him such a website has no chance, there are plenty of websites doing this already.

I was wrong, 9GAG later went on to become a successful website with just funny things.

It wasn’t that known in Romania back then, so there was a niche worth exploiting.

The solution? Do a lot of predictions in lots of areas and some will stick.

Most – won’t.

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Saving the list of applied-to jobs

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List of Jobs

I like to save the jobs I apply to.

I have an Excel file with the following columns:

Date Job Title Company Location Job Listing Job Listing #2 Cover letter Link Portfolio sent? Response? Optimism-level

I save in it the date I applied, the job title, company, where the job is placed, a link to the job posting (and a second one, in case there are more), my cover letter used for the job (so I’ll know, later on, what I wrote to the company), whether I sent a portfolio or not if I received a response, and how optimistic am I of getting the job.

Having a centralized system for this helps with organizing stuff.

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Arriving on time

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mat_n - Time

Sometimes, if you’re on time for a meeting between a few people, you’re already late.

The reason? You’ll miss the quite pleasant discussions prior to the meeting.

This is one of the reasons why online meetings tend to be stressful – everyone is on point, trying to focus on getting a result.

A better solution? Give some time for small talk, for chit-chat.

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How to remove an action hook on WordPress?

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I liked this solution:

For removing an action hook you should use the same action name, callback name and the priority that was used to add a action in parent theme. And register it on init
add_action( ‘init’, ‘remove_my_action’);
function remove_my_action() {
remove_action( ‘woocommerce_before_shop_loop’,’storefront_sorting_wrapper’,9 );
}

Source »

So, if you need to remove a specific action on WordPress, that’s how you do it.

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Dr. Stelian Gomboș: Mănăstirea de la Curtea de Argeș – Loc de odihnă al regilor României

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Dr. Stelian Gomboș:

Biserica (Catedrala) veche a mănăstirii

Fostă capitală a Țării Românești, municipiul Curtea de Argeș, s-a bucurat de-a lungul timpului de statutul de „oraș regal”, reintrând în atenția istoriei odată cu urcarea pe tronul României a Regelui Carol I (1839-1914). În perioada domniei Regelui Carol I, la Curtea de Argeș a fost construită calea ferată care leagă orașul de Pitești, a fost ridicată o gară monumentală și a fost refăcută biserica Mănăstirii Curtea de Argeș, cunoscuta ctitorie a lui Neagoe Basarab, căreia i-a fost adăugat un palat devenit una dintre reședințele familiei regale. Însă, poate cea mai importantă decizie a fost aceea ca frumoasa catedrală de la Curtea de Argeș să devină necropolă regală. Astfel, Regele Carol I, Regina Elisabeta, Regele Ferdinand și Regina Maria, Regele Mihai I și Regina Ana își dorm somnul de veci alături de Neagoe Basarab și familia acestuia.

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