With her tears, falls her sanity. Just like that. Just like nothing. drop, drop. She quickly wipes them away, ignoring the growing void in her chest. It’s just another day to get through, she whispers to herself rather harshly. Stop acting like a child. She laughs - because she has just whisper-yelled at herself and because she really is a child

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Being ingored sucks. It really does. I am speaking out of a painful episode someone may have heard recently. I looked at the messages on his phone as he lamented how his conversation with a certain mistress he flirted with had changed, and you had to agonize with him. From the simple to the raunchy, to diluted, to no more… Is a journey no man sho

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Sometimes staying true to yourself is the most difficult thing to do. The irony is that this is also sometimes the biggest compliment you can pay yourself. I was at a wedding of good friends this past weekend. I had only known the bride & groom for a little over a year (my wife and the bride became friends at varsity and reconnected a couple of yea

I’ve had a few hobbies during my 30 years on this planet. Most of them have had to do with cars and by nature, destructive. First it was car audio. The louder, the better. I can’t even count how many amps and speakers Ive destroyed. After that, it was fast cars. So far, that’s been the most expensive … and destructive. In my 1999 Civic, I b

I have been playing with Swift ever since Apple announced it at this year’s WWDC. I was lucky enough to be there, and I spent a good chunk of my time in the labs, coding and asking the engineers who created it questions. There is nothing like being among the first to get your hands on a language, and being among the first to explore it. Even if y

Am venit pe jos azi spre birou. Si pentru prima data am remarcat afisele cu campania aniversara a primariei Bucuresti care ne spune ca poti sa iubesti Bucuresti. Ma intreb daca oare poti sa iubesti in Bucuresti. Pentru ca poti sa iubesti Bucuresti. Poti sa iubesti parcurile verzi, dinamismul nespecific partii acestea de lume, puterea economica vizi

Mining of Massive Datasets - This is a very interesting book which covers many topics in Big Data including Map-Reduce, Recommendation Systems, Mining Social-Network Graphs, Dimensionality Reduction and Large-Scale Machine Learning. I am currently in the 2nd chapter, but found lot of interesting things related to Map-Reduce such as modeling relatio

When I first left for exchange, I thought I knew two things. I thought I knew that I would arrive via Paris and Montreal on the 17th of September, and I thought I knew that I would leave on the 15th of June going the same way home. In my mind and my heart, I planned for both of these things, because they were the only things that were solid in my l