Marc-Olivier Meunier
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn August during a ride, my buddy Karl told me there is this bicycle team that orders a lot of bicycles, and joining them would be a guaranteed way to get a nice bike for cheap. I was not really excited because the team orders Bianchi bikes and they are not my favorites. Not sure […]
Reading Time: 7 minutesEDIT: I have been now working at Smartly.io for 5 years. Going from 40 employees to more than 400 today. My mission today is to scale the way we do customer support to the next 1000 employees. Our ways of hiring have changed a lot. The story below is not really a good reflection of […]
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Just saw a great video from Pr. James Paul Gee from Arizona State University.
When learning new words we need to have an image, an action, something tangible to associate to that new word. If you have nothing but a synonym or a definition or even a translation, you don’t really grasp the meaning of that new word.
In order to understand this, go to a video game shop and buy a brand new video game. Go home and start reading the manual. See if it teaches you to play the game… You will most likely not understand anything this is about. It will like a sequence of unrelated words with no meaning whatsoever.
Then start playing the game for some time.
Take the manual again and start reading. You should be able to understand everything it says. That’s because you can now easily associate the words on the manual with the actions you’ve just been performing.
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If you want to insert a sleep in a script for a random number of seconds, you can do the following:
NUMBER=$[ ( $RANDOM % 60 ) + 1 ]
sleep $NUMBER
Replace 60 with the interval chosen and you will get a random sleep between 1 and 60 seconds.
This can be useful if you are trying to fetch data from a server who’s monitoring the number of connections you are opening and tends to blacklist you if you do too much.