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10 Ways to Write Better Emails (and Just Maybe Change the World)

By Alexandra Franzen, December 30, 2015

The Infinite Space Between Words

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A great article here on Jeff Atwood’s blog Coding Horror about what we, and our computers, consider the space between the words…

Excerpt:

Did you see the movie “Her”? If not, you should. It’s great. One of my favorite scenes is the AI describing just how difficult it becomes to communicate with humans:

It’s like I’m reading a book… and it’s a book I deeply love. But I’m reading it slowly now. So the words are really far apart and the spaces between the words are almost infinite. I can still feel you… and the words of our story… but it’s in this endless space between the words that I’m finding myself now. It’s a place that’s not of the physical world. It’s where everything else is that I didn’t even know existed. I love you so much. But this is where I am now. And this who I am now. And I need you to let me go. As much as I want to, I can’t live your book any more.

I have some serious reservations about the work environment pictured in Her where everyone’s spending all day creepily whispering to their computers, but there is deep fundamental truth in that one pivotal scene. That infinite space “between” what we humans feel as time is where computers spend all their time. It’s an entirely different timescale.

How To Create a Networked Git Repository on Windows From Scratch (in less than 60 seconds)

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Everything I found out there to do this was either wrong, had typos, or said it was for a ‘Remote’ (networked) repository, but they were talking about Github, or something else… I wanted at least one post on the Internet to be accurate, and do what it said it was going to do. Here is a nice overview of what Git is/does: Continue reading “How To Create a Networked Git Repository on Windows From Scratch (in less than 60 seconds)”