Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 212)

Charles Koch agrees with Bernie Sanders on one thing

Wow. Charles Koch agrees with Bernie Sanders? Next thing you’ll tell me is that the Earth is facing global cooling.

But Mr. Koch actually wrote this as an editorial in the Washington Post: “The senator is upset with a political and economic system that is often rigged to help the privileged few...I agree with him.” The image shows some other things Mr. Koch wrote about.

Personally I think it’s pretty cool when two people who are at polar opposites in almost every political belief can be civil enough to agree on something, and not fight over that point just for the sake of fighting.

“Loyalty is love” (Mike Malone and DeMarcus Cousins)

Mike Malone is the first-year head coach of the Denver Nuggets, and by all accounts he’s doing a good job with a limited roster. This is a little story about his relationship with DeMarcus Cousins of the Sacramento Kings, from this article. Malone was an assistant with the Kings before taking the job with the Nuggets.

Trump calls for Apple boycott as his vendors use iPads at rally

That right there is a good headline. From nbcnews.com.

Windows Phone sales 1.1%, Android 80.7%

PC World reports that Gartner reports the smartphone sales shown in the chart: Android dominates worldwide sales units with 80.7%, iOS has 17.7%, and Windows is there at 1.1%.

How curried functions and partially-applied functions compile in Scala

This morning I was curious about how Scala curried functions and partially-applied functions are really compiled at a bytecode level.

Prior to that, I wrote this post that Higher order functions are the Haskell experience — which is also implicitly about curried functions — and it got me thinking about Scala, in particular why we might use one function syntax versus another, i.e., why would I use this syntax:

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NY Yankees motivational sign

With Spring Training 2016 getting under way, espn.com just posted this “motivational” sign from the New York Yankees training camp.

Monoliths and microservices

Martin Fowler’s website has a good article on microservices. Every time I hear the term microservices I think, “That’s what I was doing over ten years ago,” and his article confirms that. Of course the technology is better today, but what I/we were doing many years ago fits his definition very well. I was “fortunate” enough to work for a company that had 24x7x365 needs, and those needs naturally led to this sort of architecture.

A setting to make your Android device faster

bgr.com has this tip on how to make your Android phone or tablet faster.

Somewhere in Canada (a road to the Arctic)

From this story on adn.com, “An 85-mile connection to Tuktoyaktuk (Tuk) under construction will soon allow ordinary drivers to reach the Arctic Ocean for the first time ... when finished in late 2017, the road to Tuk will be accessible from the Dempster Highway, which begins in the Yukon Territory near Alaska and heads northeast across the Arctic Circle. Driving to Tuk from the United States will be an epic road trip. Starting where I live in Chicago, Tuk will be just over 3,700 miles away.”

Academic Valentines

“Academic Valentines,” found at this Twitter page.

The Mindful Geek’s “meditation algorithm” (and “labeling”)

A couple of days ago I received an email about these guided meditation practices on Michael W. Taft’s TheMindfulGeek.com website. I’ve only listened to the first two so far, but if you’re interested in meditation, they can be a good resource.

One problem I ran into is that Mr. Taft quickly mentions “The Meditation Algorithm,” and when he said that without any introduction, I couldn’t remember what he was talking about. So I grabbed my copy of The Mindful Geek and found the algorithm described on page 53.