Archive for February, 2010

How an engineer sees the glass

I love the original saying about different views on half full\half empty glass.
Here is engineering version of this saying:

For an optimist the glass is half full, for a pessimist it’s half empty, and for an engineer is twice bigger than necessary.

🙂

The Rise And Fall of Waterfall

The waterfall story by Maxim Dorofeev.

Commas save lives

Commas save lives

Commas are definitely important. Another good example when commas could change the meaning is defining and non-defining relative clauses.