Mind Matters

...totally unnecessary information from my head

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"Filesystems corrupt data"

The other day I was going through different blog posts on my RSS feed reader, minding my business, when I came across an article called Why do We Need Databases and SQL. I have already made a post about SQL but I figured it would be nice to see if the author had any legitimate points. Let's dive in. 馃強

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ABACABA with Drake

Can you spot the ABACABA pattern in Drake's chorus?

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The Bible is descriptive, not prescriptive

The purpose of the Bible is not to tell you what to do; its purpose is to describe God's character. In this blog post, I would like to elaborate on that statement.

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The audacity of yin-yang

Heaven and earth. Light and darkness. High and low. Good and evil. Two forces, bold enough to go head to head directly, but at the same time, find a sort of opposed union.

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Love the stranger

I was reading the book of Deuteronomy recently and came across the scripture above. It reminded me of who God truly is and how his character can teach a lot of lessons about life. In this blog post, I would like to talk about God's love for the stranger.

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The evil of S(E)Q(UE)L

Any techie that has worked extensively with data has probably used SQL once in his lifetime. I started using SQL early in my programming days, when I worked on a record-keeping software soon after I learned C++. It was very instrumental in that project, and pretty much in any job I've worked for in my career. As long as there was data, there was SQL (in most cases).

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www: Write What you knoW

In this Wild Wide Web we surf through, all the distractions around us can derail us from remembering the true purpose of the web: expressing what you know and learning from the expression of others.

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Why I believe the gospel

I'm not writing this blog post to convince you to believe in Jesus Christ; I simply would like to give my own reasons for believing the gospel. I don't believe anybody can really be convinced through argument (or a blog post) anyway. It's a choice to believe: you hear the truth and you either accept it or reject it.

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The power of piping

It's no secret that I love working with GNU/Linux. The ease that I get at my fingers is uncanny and like no other. I don't even have to touch my mouse most of the time.

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Giving my text a face

Recently, I've looking at different websites on my RSS feed. I do that from time-to-time to steal ideas from others on what to put on this website.

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