I don’t remember who said this, but this is a quote about Theo Epstein’s patience and discipline, in particular as it applies to re-building the Chicago Cubs.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 240)
Alaska called me, Africa called the current Google CFO, Patrick Pichette. Here’s the story of how he just chose life over work.
“Life is always now.” A little design inspiration from this G+ page.
A smart observation: Pair Programming vs Peer Review. From this Twitter page.
Was there really a Blood Moon this morning? I didn’t know that. This Blood Moon setting over the Colorado Rockies comes from this Twitter page.
I use “insider transactions” as a key metric when buying and selling stocks. Curiously, no one inside Apple is buying. Eddy Cue sold over 250K shares, and Craig Federighi has disposed of about 150K shares. Generally speaking, that’s not a good sign; it means these guys think the price has peaked. (Eddy Cue is generally in charge of music, Federighi is the lead software guy.)
I recently needed to make an icon look like an iOS style app icon -- a rounded rectangle with transparent corners -- and to do that I needed to learn how to create a rounded rectangle in Gimp. This tutorial contains a short step-by-step description of how to do this.
Note: I’m writing this tutorial in April, 2015, using Gimp 2.8.
“What we do in life echoes in eternity.” I found this image on the Spirit Rock Meditation Center Facebook page. The saying reminds me of the movie Cloud Atlas.
I wrote an app like this for myself that I named “Focus.” Unfortunately I wasn’t clever enough to kill off a tree as an anti-reward. This image comes from an app named Forest.
This small photo shows Javier Baez’ problem: Why is the bat head facing towards center field, with his elbow pointed at the stands above the dugout? His swing is way too big, and not in control.
