How to Live Well in a Bad Place 0. Plan your life. 1. Completely remove social media and news from your life. Even in a taxi, put on headphones so no one can talk to you about the rising price of f***ing butter. 2. Maximize disconnection from others. The harsh reality is that life’s difficu... Read All

Imagine this: you’re genuinely happy right now. But creeping in the background is a nagging worry, what if this happiness slips away? What if the things making you feel this good vanish? This fear isn’t cherophobia, the fear of being happy. No, it’s something different. You’re not avoiding happines... Read All

Months ago I forced to fill open positions in a remote team, I interviewed more than 100 people (and reject more before the interview) and now I have some tips that I’m pretty sure will help you as a job seeker. Your CV is what the recruiter sees first and determines the next step, so: Keep you... Read All

Perhaps this is the tenth time I’m writing about the last six months of 2015 and the six months after my military service, when I felt genuinely happy. Inner happiness. If I try to visualize it, there was a cylinder in my chest, unlike most other times in my life (including now), that wasn’t empty. ... Read All

One September evening, while walking along the Besiktas pier, I sat on a bench to rest and stared at the sea. After a while, an elderly man came and asked if he could sit. I nodded. His clean clothes and neat hair set him apart from others his age, though he wasn’t very old, maybe 60 or 70 at most. ... Read All

LaTeX (pronounced La-tek or sometimes Lay-tek) is a document preparation system created by Leslie Lamport in 1984. It’s built on top of TeX, a typesetting system developed by Donald Knuth in 1978. But the story goes further back: TeX was based on troff, an even older system written by Joe ... Read All

Whenever you want to implement formatted data and multilingual support based on region or locale, you will eventually encounter the terms i18n and l10n. Sometimes, you may also see terms like G11n or Globalization. In this article, I’ll explain the definitions and differences between these terms. ... Read All

Walking is one of those things every human needs. For some, this need is hidden, they aren’t even aware of it. As a result, they don’t respond to it correctly or fulfill it. It’s like when you feel the urge to go to the bathroom, but in reality, your nerves are just messed up from sitting on a cold ... Read All

The appendix is a body organ considered vestigial. Vestigial means something that used to be useful but isn’t anymore. Like a piece of clothing that once fit but no longer does, you either throw it away or give it to someone else. Or like selling fuel in winter. In life, many things become vestig... Read All

In November 2002, the World Wide Web Consortium proposed OWL as a semantic markup language for publishing and sharing web ontologies. OWL is based on RDF and derived from DAML+OIL. It is one of the semantic markup languages that uses clear and formal definitions of classes, instances, and relationsh... Read All

When September arrives, a sweet and strange feeling takes over me. I don’t have a name for it, so I just call it the September feeling. This sensation is amplified by other things too, like this Yanni song performed in Las Vegas, especially that amazing violin part. Or country music and the sweet vi... Read All

Have you heard the saying, "They lie in a way that makes you feel like you can't not believe them"? Selfish people use this technique a lot. Let me give a few examples: When you know that in a conversation, six out of every five words they say are lies, but you still can’t end the interacti... Read All