Hours spent at the video gaming console not only train a players hands to work the buttons on the controller, they probably also train the brain to make better and faster use of visual input, according to Duke University researchers.”Gamers see the world differently,” said Greg Appelbaum, an assistant professor of psychiatry in the Duke School of Medicine. “They are able to extract more information from a visual scene.”
ABC (Always Be Coding). The more you code, the better you’ll get — it’s that simple. By coding, you’re practicing. But the best practice is focused practice. Have goals in mind, explore new areas, and challenge yourself. Over time, you should develop a portfolio of both unfinished and finished projects. GitHub is a great place to put this portfolio on display, but just having an eclectic body of work is huge.
This is one of the scariest bug I dealt with. Our app was return incorrect data for just one column in one specific row. We echoed sql and run it manually in phpmyadmin and it showed correct data.
We thought maybe our connection string is incorrect and connecting to different database but manually changing values in that column would reflect those values in our app.
It was only when the value in that specific row and column was 1 that we would get 5 instead.
Finally, we ran check, analyze, repair, and optimize commands on that table and that fixed the issue.
Loving the new Flickr layout and free plan. I used to have pro account but to save money, I started hosting my photos on my own. But looks like now I don’t have to worry about 200 photos limit anymore. Transferring my portfolio back to Flickr now.
So we’re also giving our Flickr users one terabyte of space — for free. That’s enough for a lifetime of photos — more than 500,000 original, full-resolution, pixel-perfect, brilliant photos. Flickr users will never have to worry about running out of space.
We bought an Aloe Vera plant. Somehow it died. But once it dies, it stinks like sewage.
Kim also measured the outcomes for each of her categories. Supportive parents had the best developmental outcomes, as measured by academic achievement, educational attainment, family obligation (considered positive outcomes), academic pressure, depressive symptoms, and parent-child alienation (considered negative).Academic achievement and attainment were purely data-driven, while the latter four came from different assessments developed by academics over the years (the academic pressure rating is Kim’s own), which, while considered reliable, are inherently somewhat subjective. Children of easygoing parents were second in outcomes, while tiger moms produced kids who felt more alienated from their parents and experienced higher instances of depressive symptoms. They also had lower GPAs, despite feeling more academic pressure.
via “Tiger Mom” study shows the parenting method doesn’t work. – Slate Magazine.
Last year, we decided to save cost of gym and started to workout at home using video games. At that time we had PS3, we got EA Active 2 and a few dance games. Initially, we worked out everyday and we could feel it working. It was fun watching your heart rate in EA Sports Active 2, and The Fight: Lights Out is extremely addictive and exhausting.
But then slowly we stopped using these games. We even bought Xbox 360 Kinect to add variety but that didn’t work either. Every fitness game was exciting initially but then it gets boring after a while and we end up buying something new.
This year we are back at gym. I don’t regret our experiment with fitness games. It has increased number of different ways we can workout. But IMHO there is no real substitute for gym. There are many reasons like:
And yes there are some advantages of fitness video games too:
It seems like video games have some advantages over gym but gym is still better way to workout, at least for me.
