Nothing too exciting, but we had our fourth snow of the season on October 20, 2013.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 299)
Don’t tell anyone (wink wink), but the folks at O’Reilly sent me a box of mini Moo cards with a discount code for the Scala Cookbook. So, me being me, I thought I’d share that code out here so you can save $$$. Here’s the front of the Moo card:
The thing you learn when you write a book is that other people will come up with better solutions than what you’ve written. Hopefully through the review process your book will be made better, but still ... this is from the Preface of To Mock a Mockingbird.
The ScalaUtils library looks really nice. See this example and more at http://www.scalautils.org/user_guide/timesOnInt
I can appreciate why Apple wants to keep things simple and offer only a few designs of the iPhone. But when I see things like this, I wish they offered a bit more. Image from nickolaylamm.com.
“Across North America — in places as far-flung as Montana and British Columbia, New Hampshire and Minnesota — moose populations are in steep decline. And no one is sure why.”
“Twenty years ago, Minnesota had two geographically separate moose populations. One of them has virtually disappeared since the 1990s, declining to fewer than 100 from 4,000.”
Read the full story at the NY Times.
I had a chance to see this woman speak recently. (Sorry, I can’t remember her name.) This part of her talk was about how a Facebook “like” or comment gives your brain a little shot of dopamine.
Breaking news: Washington Redskins change their name.
From their website: “JavaPlot is a pure Java programming interface library for GNUPlot. JavaPlot is a pure Java programming interface library for GNUPlot. It can be used as a way to create gnuplot plots on the fly through pure Java commands. In contrast with other common gnuplot java libraries, this library uses java structures to store the various plot parameters, including data-sets.”
