Personally, I only rarely get good WiFi access in hotels with “free WiFi,” but apparently one hotel in London is confident in their network, and uses Android tablets instead of light switches. But oops, they use physical ethernet cables, and because people who run hotels generally don’t know much about network security, it gets comically bad very quickly. The full story is here.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 210)
With all the interest in AI, AlphaGo, the game of Go, and the human (Lee Sedol), I thought this image was a good description of AlphaGo’s strategy. It comes from this gogameguru.com page.
I just saw this ad on Twitter. According to the legend, my family’s last name was changed by an Ellis Island worker about 100 years ago. Apparently he or she couldn’t spell or pronounce our family’s actual name, so they said, “Your last name is ‘Alexander.’”
I don’t know what their unit of measure is, but the folks at Remix OS (Android for the desktop) show that an Intel Core i7 CPU is much faster than mobile CPUs from Samsung, HTC, etc.
Update: In the latest round of “leapfrog,” the latest devices from Samsung and others are now using faster chips than what is shown in this image.
Per the Android Developer’s Blog, Android N will support multi-window views.
This image comes from the preface of a book titled, “Haskell Programming from First Principles.” (FWIW, the PDF of that book is currently over 1,000 pages long, but it is good.) Personally, I agree with what the author is saying. In my own experience I like dynamic typing when I’m writing short scripts, but I don’t like it when I’m writing larger applications. That’s just an opinion, but it’s a reason that I prefer Scala over other languages.
In another announcement today (March 8, 2016), Lightbend introduced a free online course named Scala for Data Science, at BigDataUniversity.com.
Marcus Pollard shared this story about Peyton Manning with espn.com. Even as a rookie Manning was demanding.
This was a nice Twitter post by Jamie Allen of Lightbend (nee Typesafe) about how to create applications that scale and are resilient. (There might be a misspelling on #2. :)
(Image from this Twitter page.)
