“Just coach the team.” A quote that Indiana University head coach Tom Crean keeps in his office. From this story about Indiana basketball player Yogi Ferrell.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 209)
Here’s the view from the apartment here in downtown Colorado after we had 5-10” of snow over the last two days. The view of the mountains is my favorite part (though I had a much better view in my last apartment).
How important are NFL “Pro Days”? ESPN’s Todd McShay answers that very easily.
The letter from Baltimore Ravens’ head coach John Harbaugh to his players is good. This image shows part of it. You can read the full letter here on espn.com.
As an indicator of how weird my life has been lately, back on December 1, 2015 I bought a new, little iMac. The most important things in my life at that time were that I wanted to be able to run Sarah, and I wanted to be able to run a series of new stock market apps I had written, and my old 2007 iMac wasn’t cutting it any more.
Then my mom had an accident and ended up in the hospital for eleven days with a head injury. Then I ended up in the hospital myself. She was on the 3rd floor and I was on the 4th floor, or vice-versa, I don’t remember, I was pretty out of it. After that there was a long series of doctors’ appointments and tests. Now, about 120 days later, Lil iMac still sits there in its original box. Funny how priorities can change so fast.
A Stack Overflow survey of over 50,000 developers shows that Scala is a “most loved” programming language, and a top-paying tech job.
This BusinessInsider.com story on Larry Page has this tidbit on Nikola Tesla. BI also has this very detailed (48-page PDF) bio of Larry Page.
Darn North wind is blowing. It always blows this time of year.
(If you know the movie Chocolat, and you know that I’d rather be in Alaska, you know what that means.)
Note: I write all of the following as a fan of the Denver Broncos and C.J. Anderson.
Don’t believe what you read from the Denver Broncos front office today (3/15/16). They made another mistake this offseason — a very expensive mistake this time — by not making C.J. Anderson a mid-tier free agent at $2.356M. That offer was only $800K more than the first-tier offer they made, and because other teams would have had to compensate Denver if they signed Anderson, it’s unlikely anyone would have offered him a contract. Because of this mistake, Denver will have to pay Anderson almost $6M this year, and another $4-5M next year, with something like $1.7M of that guaranteed. (I don’t remember the exact number.)
I have no earthly idea why the Denver management team did this. So far in this offseason they really seem to be off in trying to judge “market value.” I don’t care that they lost Osweiler, but with this move they’ve cost themselves a lot of salary cap money, which would be really nice to have because they need to sign a new starting QB.
As Mark Schlereth just said on the radio, the move was “reactionary” and a “panic move.” His radio partner said that Anderson is now the fourth-highest paid RB in the NFL.
(Image from this espn.com page.)
I’ve never used a BlackBerry phone, but I know that in the days before the first iPhone (~2007), they were big in the enterprise. As they try to recover, I like their current marketing strategy of having the fastest security updates of any Android provider.
The image comes from this cio.com story.
This image is from an article on shiftelearning.com titled, “Studies confirm the power of visuals in eLearning.” Whenever I get it finished, I suspect that my new book on Scala and functional programming will be one of the most visual FP books ever written, so I’m trying to learn as much about “visual aids in learning” as I can.
“My Indian name is ‘Runs with Beer.’” As the t-shirt shows, I saw it in Santa Fe, New Mexico during a recent trip.
Back on Pi Day in 2011, I was living in Palmer, Alaska, and had no plans on returning to the “Lower 48,” no plans to write the Scala Cookbook, etc. (And then some personal stuff happened in my family, and I thought it would be best to move to Colorado for a while.) I took this photo of a local baseball field and the mountains in Palmer while I was walking around that day.
(If you’re interested in what I was thinking then, this is a photo of the building that I thought would become my office in downtown Palmer.)
