I just saw this video for LiquidText. It made me think that this is the sort of functionality I always wanted from Amazon Kindle. More accurately, I knew I didn’t like how Kindle worked, and LiquidText makes you think, “See, there it is, that’s what I want.” (I’ll know it when I see it.)
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 169)
espn has a nice story on how teammates of Jose Fernandez dealt with his death.
From this NY Times article: “But when it comes to the burden of disease,” he added, “some of the leading risk factors are not high intake of unhealthy foods, but low intake of healthy foods.”
As one example, I read in a book about food-related diseases that red meat isn’t necessarily bad for people, it’s just that people in the U.S. tend to eat red meat without eating anything healthy along with it.
I was surprised to see that Deshaun Watson’s max football throwin velocity was only 49 mph at the 2017 NFL Combine. (Image/data from Dane Brugler.) As Benjamin Allbright writes, “Over 55 mph doesn’t guarantee success, but under it pretty much guarantees failure.”
(All info from dawgsbynature.com.)
I see this morning that people are referring to the proposed 2017 healthcare plan as the Republican Insurance Plan — R.I.P., for short.
If you want to turn off the Android haptic feedback vibration setting on Android 7, I just found that you have to follow these steps:
Settings > Sound > Other sounds > Vibrate on tap
It feels odd that the setting is buried under the “Sound” setting, but there it is.
From what I can tell by the interactions on the The Mastocytosis Society group on Facebook, there is at least a 10:1 or 20:1 ratio of women to men who have mast cell diseases. Or, more accurately, those are the ratios of people who (a) know they have mast cell diseases and (b) interact in this group on Facebook.
Lisa Klimas at MastAttack.org has a nice mast cell disease fact sheet, including the information on the image shown.
As a quick note (circa March 10, 2017 and Android 7), I filed an Android bug report recently, and when I did, one of the Android developers asked if I would file an Android bug report. To do so, they gave me these instructions:
“After reproducing the issue, navigate to developer settings, ensure ‘USB debugging’ is enabled, then enable ‘Bug report shortcut’. To take bug report, hold the power button and select the ‘Take bug report’ option. Note: Please upload the files to google drive and share the folder to android-bugreport@google.com, then share the link here.”
I thought that was interesting, I had never seen the “Bug report shortcut” approach before.
If you ever want to write your own book as an Amazon Kindle book, here’s the Kindle “supported formats” page.
Per this article on healinghistamine.com, some natural mast cell stabilizers are: Khellin; Quercetin; Epigallocatechin gallate (a green tea compound); Silibinin (from milk thistle); Ellagic acid; Reservatrol; Curcumin; Garcinia mangostana (mangosteen).
The author further states, “Also in the bioflavonoid family are luteolin and apigenin, the latter of which can be found in parsley, celery, rosemary, oregano, thyme, basil, coriander and artichokes.”
Here’s a link to an article titled, Little’s Law- An insight on the relation between latency and throughput.
As a quick note, I often have a problem where the Messages app on MacOS (formerly Mac OS X) won’t update to receive new messages. By this I mean that I receive messages on my iPhone, but then when I go to my Mac and open the Messages app, my new text messages either never get there, or it takes a long time for them to show up in the Messages app.
“Async is not about performance – it’s about scalability.”
From this tweet by Viktor Klang, Lightbend
As a quick note, this is a list of the IntelliJ IDEA keystrokes I use on my MacOS systems:
The slides from Jonas Bonér’s talk, “From Microliths To Microsystems,” are now online at speakerdeck.com.
From this interview with former Apple retail head Ron Johnson:
“I remember the day I came in and told Steve (Jobs) about the Genius Bar idea and he says, ‘That’s so idiotic! It’ll never work!’” Johnson said. “He said, ‘Ron, you might have the right idea, but here’s the big gap: I’ve never met someone who knows technology who knows how to connect with people. They’re all geeks! You can call it the Geek Bar.’”
Here’s a good list of well-known and under-the-radar restaurants in Boulder, Colorado.
And if you don’t know Boulder, here’s one quote from the article: “Boulder is one of America’s ‘Foodiest’ towns with a roster of hot eateries. A February New York Times feature noted that ‘among foodies, it is also known as the place where new companies are challenging the old guard in the food business.’”
March 4, 2017: I’m glad to say that I’ve found a good way to write the end of my book on Scala and functional programming, and I’m writing as fast as I can to get that completed. Unfortunately the bad news is that I started getting sick again this week (pre-syncope and syncope (passing out)), and it’s been slow going because of that. But if I can stay alive, I’m finally happy with how this book is working out.
I can’t sleep tonight, so I’ll tell a story. I think I was 18 when this happened, maybe 19.
I ask my dad to let me borrow his car, he says yes, and I drive to a party with a friend of mine. The party is fun until my friend gets in a fight, punches his hand through a window, and cuts a big gash in his forearm. At one point I see his forearm and there’s a chunk of it that’s completely gone, and I can see the bone in his arm; it’s pretty bad.