If gi is loose . .

1. Drape lapel over top of throat and grab with thumb up. Rotate to North-South position while rotating elbow inward to use ulna side of forewarm to choke.
2. Papercutter: Feed lapel under neck with pinky up (thumb at bottom of lapel). Wrap elbow out and around head to choke with ulna side again (but is on other side of their

Have to support a survey feature thus a system capable of managing questions-responses. The data model that readily comes to mind (or came to a coworker's mind) was using a modeling pattern that I'd forgotten the name of from 5 years ago . . the dreaded Entity-Attribute-Value design (dreaded in relational databases at least). It's just so ( Read more... )

The key to effectively hitting sweeps from RDLR (and DLR) is to actively work at upsetting the opponent's balance using the leg hook. One has the option to pull the opponent inward and push the opponent outward using just the leg hook. Using these counteracting forces, one can bait the opponent into coming in or backing out to sway their balance ( Read more... )

The right way to attack when one has a secure kimura grip from the back either from bottom or top is not for one's body to go to the opponent's locked arm's side but to the opposite side to ensure one stays on top in solid control. This means that from turtle, one should not roll forward towards the arm one is attacking but actually back up and ( Read more... )

* Must remember that the .prototype property is only available on functions (and accordingly functions used as constructors). It will not be available for object literals or objects created by the Object.create() method. There is a .prototype property on the .constructor property of an object though. BUT the .constructor for an object literal or an ( Read more... )

The paper by John Hughes is from 1984, but given that functional programming dates back to the 1950s, the concepts are probably older. The two notable takeaways are that functional programming promotes modularization and lazy evaluation (generators / executing the "outer" function of a composition after the "inner" function produces an output / ( Read more... )

Reading some interesting articles on why OOP is not ideal . .

This one, while way too verbose, makes some interesting assertions about the 12 major principles of OOP ( Read more... )

A lot of anecdotal points but definitely interesting theories . .

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/the-real-cause-of-addicti_b_6506936.html

In summary, it's mostly the environment which "forces" addicts, not the drugs. 

http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/what-makes-a-good-engineering-culture by Edmond Lau

As summarized by this good author, Edmond Lau, whose blog I just discovered . . http://www.theeffectiveengineer.com/blog/what-i-learned-from-googles-engineering-cultureRead more... )