Bankless

Today, I closed my bank account at Deutsche Bank.

Until the end of the March, I had the opportunity to hold a youth account. It was for free. Now, as a cease to be student, I would automatically get a grown up account, which costs 5 euro per month. I think and I officially claim it is robbery. The bank should be grateful I keep my money there because that's what enables them to do their business. So if they aren't, neither am I. I'll find myself another bank. A bank that may not have such nice expensive skyscraper headquarters as Deutsche Bank. But one that provides its basic services for free.

It was a nice time, but it's time to move on...

Hills and Deers

Since the very first time I spotted it, I have been amazed by the skyline of Frankfurt. I just get get the feeling I am in a very cool place every time I see it. Over the last years, I have photos of it from various angles. This time, I wanted to make a shot from west, from one of the Taunus hills.

I wasn't that easy because of the forest. But, after a couple of hours erring, I finally found a place where the skyscrapers were visible. Later, I found an even better spot, but by then, the Main valley got foggy.



Besides hunting the Frankfurt view, I spent half an hour trying to catch some deers on the photo. But they always tried to flee as soon as I approached. The picture is not that good, but if you know you are supposed to see a deer on it, you actually may.

Travelling

At the end of March, my student card expires. I will hence loose the opportunity of free travel in Hessen, the one I have taken for granted in the last three years.

As I now have only a few days left, I aim to use the card to its extent and finally make it worth the money I paid for it. At the same time, as the spring has come and the weather gets nice, I want to do some hiking. So that's my plan. I go some place I can reach with the ticket, I hike there for a few hour, and then I get back. I wont probably be able to do so every day, I am not that fit after all. But every second day, maybe...

Inheritance

Finally, on page 583, my C++ textbook arrived at inheritance. It was somewhat confusing to wait for so long. After all, inheritance is supposed to be one of the most useful concepts of an object-oriented language. Once I learned Java, it was introduced much earlier.

Another thing that confused me was the possibility of multiple inheritance in C++. I still recall my Java textbook devoting a whole section to explain why there is no practical way to implement it. And still, C++ does, being, by the way, older than Java. Well, it not like I was unable to imagine a textbook to lie... I can even understand their good intent. Instead of introducing a concept and in the next section declaring it deplicated, useless or just bag programming style (C++ does is all the time), they tried to deny the very existence of the concept. But I am still somewhat confused and... well... disappointed...

Master

Now I finally got it: The piece of paper for the sake of which I have been studying for the last six years. I gotta buy a frame and hang it on the wall.

Surviving Xynthia

I am a Xynthia surviver.

Well, I wasn't that hard. The news are slightly exaggerated. The only thing that happened to us was a neighbor chimney falling down on our garage.

3D Graph Drawer

I was surprised finding my old 3D Graph Drawer Java application still online and still working. I made this program in my second semester at the KTH. It was ages ago. Many things have changes and I have almost forgotten that this homepage existed. By now, I am not sure I have the source code on my computer, and I am not sure I remember how to log and make changes on that homepage. But this stuff is still there.

A month of C++

Now, I have been learning C++ for a month. As originally planned, I have made through half of the text book, completing many of the exercises. My general impression is: Java is a very good simplification of C++. In that language, they got rid of many unnecessary burdens that C++ must carry as a succeeder of C. They say Java is much slower. Well, maybe it is. But I haven't much of it jet. After all, I am only through half of the text book.

Bike is Back

Now, as the snow is gone, I can start using my bike once again.

Филология

Недавно наткнулся на слово "видит" читая одну книжку. Натыкался я на него конечно и раньше, но почему-то на этот раз меня понятуло на филологию. Мне почему-то показалось, что правильнее было бы написать "видет", от слова "видеть". Необъятен и необъясним русский язык. Долго над нами бились в школе, чтобы научить нас грамотно выражаться на своём родном языке, но так до конца и не научили. Только что провёл маленькое исследование. Слово "видет" гугл нашёл 179,000 раз, а "видит" -- 6,310,000. Значит, 3 % пользователей интернета допускают эту ошибку. Впрочем, гугл нашёл даже 124 случая опечатки "видтт". С гордостью замечу, что теперь этих опечаток в интернете 125!

И всё-такие уроки русского языка не прошли совсем напрасно. Где-то классе в пятом мы заучили следующую скороговорку (или как это правильно назвать), которую я не забыл и 15 лет спустя:

Смотреть, видеть, ненавидеть,
Терпеть, вертеть, обидеть, зависеть.

Фразу эту помню, а вот к чему я её заучил, и имеет ли она какое-то отношение к рассматриваемому мною случаю -- убейте не знаю. Впрочем, если начнёте убивать, я буду кричать, что кажется в русском языке у глаголов есть какие-то спряжения, их то ли два, то ли три, а вышеупомянутые слова являются исключением из какого-то там правила со спряжениями связанного -- всё, вот тут уже можете убивать.

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Холоп: Лошади спряжены-с, ваша светлость...
Ломоносов: Лошади не спрягаются, спрягаются глаголы!