Sorry for the long delay between the last lesson and this one. Lots of travel and work got in the way of this post. Without further ado, here is the lesson on Prototypes. Prototype is much misused keyword in JavaScript. Prototype word in JavaScript is used interchangeably for two subtly different concepts. This has lead […]
Category Archives: Quotes and musings
About people
People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so, the children of the […]
Picard and the Q
I was watching “Tapestry”, one of my favorite episodes on Star Trek: The Next Generation. In this episode, Captain Picard lay dying because of a condition he acquired when he got into a fight when he was young and rash. An omnipotent being called Q talks to Picard in this near delirium state and proposes to […]
On what we are… and how we remain what we are
“It was said later that he came under bad influence at this stage. But the secret of the history of Edward d’Eath was that he came under no outside influences at all, unless you count all those dead kings. He just came under the influence of himself. That’s where people get it wrong. Individuals aren’t […]
Starting afresh
First, a few quotes from Terry Pratchett. Who is Terry Pratchett, you might ask. Well, he is the well known and beloved author of the Discworld series of novels. Seriously though, I have found more quotable quotes in his books than all the other books I have read combined. His style of writing is unlike […]