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2016-09-05

• 08:08 UTC (new) (history) 2016-09-05 Many variants of a Beamer presentation – part I . . . . Marcin Borkowski – ome time ago I decided to prepare slides for a certain lecture using Beamer. I thought it would be nice to have a few versions of the slides. For starters, I wanted to prepare lecture notes for the students. Also, I wanted to check how the “notes” feature works (spoiler: it works nice, though it does not play extremely well with hyperref).

2016-08-29

• 15:32 UTC (new) (history) 2016-08-29 Geocaching for beginners . . . . Marcin Borkowski – With the advent of Pokemon Go and my general dislike of the mainstream, I decided (after one friend mentioned it) to give geocaching a try. I have to say that I was not disappointed: it’s pretty fun!

2016-08-22

• 08:58 UTC (new) (history) 2016-08-22 Jan Góra OP on work and inspiration . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I was reading an article (in Polish) by Agnieszka Chrostowska about Jan Góra OP, the legendary Dominican friar who died last year. It is difficult to summarize who Father Góra is for people not in the know, and (not really being one of his spiritual children, and in fact not really being a huge fan of him) I won’t even dare to try. I have to admit, though, that his vision, his love for Christ, for the Church, and for the people – especially the young – is undeniable. I consider him a real Catholic: well grounded in reality and at the same time totally in love with God (in fact, the latter implies for former). Not being without his sins (who of us is free of them anyway?), I am quite convinced he is safe in heaven now, and I wouldn’t be surprised to learn the he is continuing his job of bringing the young people to maturity and to God. One quotation from the article really did resonate with me. In my poor translation, the author says this:

2016-08-18

• 05:30 UTC (new) (history) Comments on 2016-08-15 JavaScript callbacks . . . . Jeski – Hi, very nice article. I'd like to add something I found useful to understand how this "waiting" aka "event loop" works in the browser: . . .

2016-08-15

• 08:09 UTC (new) (history) 2016-08-15 JavaScript callbacks . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Note: this is an introductory article on JavaScript callbacks. There will be a bit more advanced follow-up – an introduction to promises.

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