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Chapter one.
Magnets. How the f*** do they work?
M. Faraday.
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Lines of flux...blah...blah...
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raddevus wrote: He is very inspiring because he always liked to do experiments himself to prove or disprove the science that was being discovered: he never took the answers for granted
That would be rather problematic in the current era since wait times for colliders and space telescopes already span years. Real problem if every freshman physics student would need to reconfirm everything from first principles. Not to mention of course how many of them would get the process wrong and then claim that they 'proved' something new.
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Me : Hell yeah we proved it!
Them : What did you prove?
Me : (Head scratching) I don't know... something? What do you think I proved?
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Wow, college physics, I remember reading the book:
Can you imagine the excitement Maxwell had when he realized that a moving magnetic field produced a moving electric field and vice versa, such that the electro-magnetic field could then travel through space without requiring a medium to travel through...
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and for a brief instant I had 2 thoughts:
- Oh Cool
- Will this be on the test
LOL
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: a moving magnetic field produced a moving electric field and vice versa
Kirk 10389821 wrote: the electro-magnetic field could then travel through space without requiring a medium to travel through
Two amazing discoveries, for sure.
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Did it cover quaternions and how they got converted to the current system? Supposedly, Maxwell screwed up doing this and prevented discoveries yet to be made (by non-top-secret researchers anyway).
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Bruce Patin wrote: Did it cover quaternions and how they got converted to the current system?
INteresting. I have only gotten through half the book so far so we will see.
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Read it. Loved it. Learned a lot about these two greats and how they worked. Even understood Maxwell’s equations a little better. One a hands-on genius who didn’t know much math, the other a math genius. Amazing that it took both to unravel electromagnetics.
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Very cool that you've read this.
matblue25 wrote: One a hands-on genius who didn’t know much math, the other a math genius. Amazing that it took both to unravel electromagnetics.
That's a great summary!
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APOD's back.
"... the Horsehead Nebula, will slowly disperse over the next 100,000 years."
Oh, in that case I can go to bed... was worried I might miss seeing that. 
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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And I have another wall paper...
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Tell me about it. I'm up to 92 different pictures for my background slideshow.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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...I still struggle with the habit of over-engineering a solution to a given problem. 
I started out with an extension method that takes care of the html/css tedium necessary to create an element, and ended up with a line of code that a) appears more convoluted (due to unavoidable casting at it's point of usage), and b) is a bit longer than my first go at it. The end result is what I call "farfegnugen coding", where there isn't any tangible (or even imagined) benefit to using the method that way.
This is a perfect example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
I relearn this lesson every couple of weeks.
On the other hand, I learned how to call a method in the controller from the view, so silver linings... I guess.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: This is a perfect example of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".
Why not try? What it turns out to be the new sliced bread?
How did early humans figure out which foods were good to eat, and others not so much (as in deadly)? Or more complicated involving processes such as how did they figure out drying then crushing certain seeds makes flour which then mixed with water (undrying what was just dried, completely illogical) and then baked becomes bread?
So yeah, sometimes somebody just has to go there. 1 in a million could be the win (don't laugh - that's better odds than the lotto).
Installing Signature...
Do not switch off your computer.
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Let's let Mikey try it. He'll eat anything.
That should date myself. 
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I believe it was, "Let's let Mikey try it!" and the friend responds, "He won't eat it. He hates everything!"
Which of course sets up the kicker at the end where Mikey likes it and sells the point that if Mikey likes it, it must be good.
Feeling less alone now?
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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I wrote today a bunch of messy code, after some debugging I found a enum which controlled the data source in some pre-ordering. After reordering the enums I deleted most of the code I wrote today. 
Now "it just works"
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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You are 100% correct, how about the first person that said "Did you see what just dropped out of that chickens butt? We should totally eat that." If that hadn't been done, we would never know the wonder that is scrambled eggs and bacon. Omelette that one sink in.
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Lopatir wrote: Why not try? What it turns out to be the new sliced bread?
Because that only happens in one out of one thousand cases.
While the other 999 cases must still be maintained by maintenance programmers for the next 20 years.
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The other day I was searching for a solution to a problem I was having and found an answer on SO. A really neat solution in about 6-8 lines of code that the person submitting the answer assumed was not the right way to do it, but it worked. It worked so well that I consumed it, tore it apart and regurgitated a jquery plugin. But since I didn't know/couldn't remember how to write a plugin it took me several hours to do.
That was the second time this week that I've done that.
They didn't necessarily have to be a plugin but; a) I relearned how to write a plugin and b) it's now reusable and c) I can have more than one instance on the page.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: I still struggle with the habit of over-engineering a solution to a given problem
My two ¢'s: That's a problem for really junior programmers, who re-invent the wheel because they don't know about the toolbox full of perfectly good wheels, and senior old farts like you and I, who have been down this road before too many times and think we need this and that. I have trouble remembering YAGNI: You Ain't Gonna Need It.
I read an article once about suppressing the urge to make things in your code "general purpose", which is also my tendency. The author said that the only reason to generalize the solution to a problem was if you needed it to work more than three different ways. Three or less, just copy/paste/tailor and go on.
Software Zen: delete this;
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My rules are similar:
- copy once, hold your nose
- copy again, refactor!
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