I now enter the next phase of my Scala Cookbook project, known as, “Good God, what happened to this apartment while I was writing that book?!”
(A Facebook post from November 3, 2012.)
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 180)
Alphabet recently authorized another large stock buyback. Like Google’s previous stock repurchase program, the quantity is a little geeky. :)
(The image comes from this fool.com page.)
“I need to buy some warmer everything.”
(A note I wrote on this day in 2010,
when I lived in Alaska)
Starbucks provides an important lesson about making sure you think about all of your design use cases.
This is a fake oil painting of Aroldis Chapman taking the ball in the 7th inning of Game 5 of the 2016 World Series against the Cleveland Indians.
Here’s a little more discussion from this Twitter thread about why developers don’t like Apple’s latest laptop design.
I haven’t been blown away by MacOS (nee OS X) in quite some time, and the latest MacBook design seems to have annoyed even more developers. A good thing about this is that it got me looking into Qubes OS, “a reasonably secure operating system.”
Apple’s philosophy of “we design the hardware and software” works well when people like your work, but when people don’t like your design it’s easy to lose customers.
Back in 1983 I bought a 1972 Ford Maverick with 125,000 miles on it. I bought it for $325, and with very little gap in its corroded spark plugs it ran cool and got 31 miles per gallon. It only had an AM radio in it, and as a result of that I learned about the song “Pancho & Lefty,” performed by Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard.
It turns out that Townes Van Zandt is the writer of that song, and in this video he tells about how Billy Graham and the Maharaji helped Pancho & Lefty come into being:
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“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
Happy Halloween from Millenium, and Revelations 6:8.
According to propublica.org, “Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race.” They used a housing ad as an example, as shown in this image.
“We don’t design for price, we design for the experience and the quality people expect from Mac.”
~ Phil Schiller, Apple
Building Inspector: What do you call this place?
Darth Vader: The death—
[inspector’s eyes look up from his clipboard]
Darth Vader: Uh ... the health star.
I like the “Google” app on Android — the thing you see if you swipe right on the Android home screen. But a weakness of it is that you can’t get back to a story easily. For instance, this morning I followed a Google Now card to see a story about Tom Ricketts and the Cubs, closed the story, then thought, “Wait, I meant to look at XYZ in that web page.” Once you close a story like this the Now card disappears, and you can’t get back to it easily (which is the weakness).
Solution 1: Going back to Google Now app stories on Android 7
I don’t know if this is the only way to do it, but as a solution, one way to get back to the story on Android 7 is to follow these steps:
Lightbend has a good interview with Raymond Roestenburg, co-author of Akka In Action.
Bummer. This song is dedicated to someone who really let me down. This is Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word, by Elton John:
I just upgraded to iOS 10 yesterday. So far it seems to work a lot like Android, with “cards” for notifications, and you swipe right on the home screen to see Google Now, or whatever Apple calls that screen.
Note: This is a post from 2007 that I just updated a little bit because I think there’s still some value in it.
A lot of people have written to say that it’s unfair that I think developers should never say “I’m 75% done,” or “I’m 90% done.”
So, to explain myself, here’s why I think you should never use a phrase like that: