I wrote on The Prefect Programming Language my thoughts about what would be the prefect language out there, and what would be the nearest thing of it. It’s C and this is not going to change (any far at least), however, perfect is not always practical. I still believe in Lisp-like syntax superiority and I love the flexibility of dynamic typing and dynamic loading, and C has both already. Still C lacks many things like a proper build system (that convince everybody) and packaging.

From the list on that article, I’d be left with Julia and Go, Julia has two downsides of the Centralized Package Repository and the use of Exception handling. And Go has the downside of not having a REPL. For me, when it comes to the real world, the issue with centralization does not matter more than the issue of getting the work done (i.e. REPL weights more).

Going more practically from there, I see a high potential with Clojure, it does not have the OOP trash like Common Lisp and it is a Lisp, it is not too new like Jack, and it can interlope with Java. Perhaps it’s the go-to language for me right now. Displacing Common Lisp.

I am considering reading Don Quixote. But I’m still unsure. I think there are so many books that are propagated around and everywhere merely because of pseudointellectuality. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy was one of those novels that I had a similar experience with. It’s one of the most unreadable novels in my opinion, however, it’s always considered either #1 or #2 best works by people who post book ratings on book communites. After I read it back then, due to the severe amount of recommendation, I was surprised that it’s hardly a plain, and very long, novel, I tried to find later someone to discuss my view with him about the novel, I could only find people majored in literature who can discuss it, but theoretically only, and I found out that most of the people who recommenced it to me never actually read it.

I like thinking about names, they usually reflect people’s dreams and values, many times I feel devastated when contemplating names, like when find a convicted thief named Ali I usually think that their parents did find great values in the historical character of Imam Ali that they wished to recall in their child, and how sad it went. I personally believe that names have a great effect on us. Which is not debatable [from a theory-of-complexity perspective]. But how can they shape our personalities? A study once showed that boys who are given names more common among girls are more likely to develop behavioral problems when they reach puberty,David Figlio, Boys Named Sue: Disruptive Children and Their Peers (National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005), https://doi.org/10.3386/w11277. but the reason behind that itself is very obvious (likely to be). What about their effect on our innersole? I think there should be. The priming effect is one that proves it, however, it’s very controversial, but let me tell you about it.

Priming is the idea that exposure to one stimulus may influence a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention. The stimulus itself can be a subliminal stimuli, for example, if someone were to read you an article about people in a retirement home, your subconscious recalls old people, who walk very slow, the Priming theorists believe that this might actually cause you to walk slightly slower as result of your subconscious thinking. And if you were to experience the same thing but with talking about top football players, you might walk faster. Interesting theory no? Unfortunately it has great problems in documenting the experiments.Bruce Bower, “The Hot and Cold of Priming: Psychologists Are Divided on Whether Unnoticed Cues Can Influence Behavior,” Science News 181, no. 10 (May 2012): 26–29, https://doi.org/10.1002/scin.5591811025.

I’ve a simple take on marriage and relationships that does not involve my radical thoughts about family, I think it should very obvious, but I find myself have to point it out in many discussions. And it’s basically about the struggle that occurs because of class differential between couples, it can be reduced to a simple imbalance or dependency issue.

My view derives from the historical nature of the relationship between men and women. Historically speaking, there’s a very interesting fact in the very maiden year of human slavery, that’s, female slavery appeared earlier that male’s.Gerda Lerner, “Women and Slavery,” Slavery &Amp; Abolition 4, no. 3 (December 1983): 173–98, https://doi.org/10.1080/01440398308574858. To understand the significance of that let us understand why slavery ever appeared; slavery is something that is as new as civilization to the H. sapiens, actually slavery only dates back to 3500 BC,Elisabeth Meier Tetlow, Sumer, vol. 1, Women, Crime, and Punishment in Ancient Law and Society (New York: A&C Black, 2004). most anthropologists explain this emergence as related to the new production techniques that were adopted and led eventually to a the first class division known in history. The interesting thing here is that, this division happened earlier to females, they were enslaved but not only by higher class but by an opposite (equal) gender. This happened because the new intensive production techniques tended to prioritize men’s labour over women’s for the first time which was not the case at all: women used to be as productive and their labour was as much important as men’s in the pre-horticulture era.Ernestine Friedl, Women and Men: An Anthropologist’s View (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1975), 28. What is to be learnt from this historical fact? Well, basically the more differences in power between parties the more pulverization is likely to occur. Consequently, when you apply this to modern-relationships decisions you will find that many people did not learn this basic lesson of history yet.

My friend sent me this episode from a pop-science TV series; https://youtu.be/CFeW61i_MLA it has English subtitle. I’d love to share Nietzsche view of the matter:Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Dawn of Day, ed. J. M. Kennedy (Dover Publications, 1998), 17.

I think I’ve a nice tip on that, although it might sounds very naive, it really helped me personally. I think that the reason behind post-achievement depression is that we forget why we wanted whatever we achieved or that we no longer possess the same perspectives that made us want that thing, the reason behind that is usually the long period that is dedicated on achieving it, in which you are likely to change more. That’s why it’s most common in academia especially with people getting their Ph.D after 5 years of work or even more. So basically we forget why we want something and how we felt towards wanting it (think of it like someone working 2 years to earn an Ijazah believing it to be a great achievement, but they turn atheist in the second year). So my tip is basically a usage of intensive imagination in a different stages of what we want.

And this does not have to be a protection from depression to be honest, but it

can be used as a refreshing method to really understand our passions and what we “really” want (not what we ought to by collective consciousness or propaganda): think of yourself getting it and estimate your happiness or satisfaction.

I just learned about BBC’s iPlayer documentaries today, really quality content. I used to watch some of these when I was younger.

It’s always recommended to check what your vendors/origins provide before looking for third-party solution. I learnt that the hard way years ago when I was in the Digital Signal Processing class and trying to take math notes, I was new to Org-mode and the Emacs rabbit whole that time and I wanted to use Org-mode for this mission. I came across this program from reddit, it’s called “math-preview”, I thought that this was the utility I need to write LaTeX equations inside Org. I spent hours trying to install it (npm tragedy), and even after getting it to work, I was getting Elisp errors inside Emacs. I do not remember how it ended though, perhaps someone told me that Emacs does what I wanted out of the box? Anyway. It’s only a fun memory now :)