A crow in the snow, a memory of a winter past.
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 84)
I don’t know about everything shown on this image, but for the last few months I have noticed that I have “raccoon eyes” at times, meaning that I develop really dark areas under my eyes. As the image shows, this is probably from allergies and/or food intolerances, which — thanks to MCAS — I can now confirm.
(I found this image on this Pinterest page.)
A short video where Steve Jobs talks about marketing.
“Okay, well, here’s my story, here’s what you need to know. I’m just divorced and I had my heart broken badly by a woman that I really loved. But I think your heart grows back bigger. You know? Once you get the shit beat out of you, and the universe lets your heart expand that way. And I think that’s the function of all this pain and heartache that we all go through, you know, you gotta go through that to come out to a better place and that’s how I see it, anyway.”
One of the many great quotes from my favorite movie of the now, Must Love Dogs.
November 29, 2019: A few days ago I made the PDF version of “Hello, Scala” free, and today I made the paperback version of “Hello, Scala” available again, and reduced it’s price from $20 to just $10. Click the image below to buy the book on Amazon.
As I’ve noted before, the contents of this book are being updated and improved, and in the future it will be available as Scala Book. The HTML version of those contents are currently available on the docs.scala-lang.org site.
A few people I’ve talked to recently who have (or had) cancer told me they can clearly remember the moment when their doctor told them that they had cancer.
In my case I do remember the conversation with the doctor, but that was more of a formality. When I picked up the phone to talk to her, I already had a pad of paper and a pencil in hand, and I was ready to write down the details she was going to tell me. Because in my case I was pretty certain that I had cancer when I saw the ultrasound results a few days earlier.
A friend introduced me to the movie Home for the Holidays many years ago, and it’s still the best Thanksgiving movie I know.
The more I thought about it, the more I thought that the word pericarditis sounded familiar, so I searched an electronic diary I used to keep and found this entry from January 3, 2008:
“I don’t remember the whole dream, just the very end, where I woke up with the word ‘pericardium’ in my brain. There’s nothing too peculiar about this except for one detail: I don’t remember ever hearing that word before in my life.”
“Later in the morning I looked it up online to see if I made it up, and it is indeed a real word. Even cooler is that it’s related to the chest/heart, where my niece hit me. Wikipedia says it is ‘a double-walled sac that contains the heart and the roots of the great vessels.’”
“I'm not saying that I've never heard this word before, only that I can't consciously recall hearing it before, and I had to try several spellings before I got it right. What I’m saying is that my conscious mind didn’t know the word, but my dreaming mind did.”
The dreaming mind and subconscious in general fascinates me.
This is a photo of a sign at the Mat-Su Regional hospital in Alaska back in 2010. A nurse there told me that if I could read it, I was healthy enough to go home. :)
November 26, 2019: The PDF version of my book “Hello, Scala” is now free, and you can download it by clicking on the image below.
Future “updated and improved” versions of the book are being released as Scala Book. Currently an HTML version of the book is available here on the scala-lang.org website, and we’ll have PDF, MOBI, and ePub versions of that available once the creation process is automated and a few other issues are resolved.
But for now, click on the image below if you’d like to download the PDF of Hello, Scala for free:
As a brief note today, if you need to read a binary file with Scala, here’s an approach I just tested and used. It uses the Java FileInputStream and BufferedInputStream classes along with Iterator.continually:
Just fooling around a little bit at the moment, here are several ways to write for/do blocks with the “significant indentation” style in Dotty (Scala 3) as of Dotty v20:
I was talking to a doctor yesterday about Pericarditis and he said that one possible result could be catastrophic. I was well aware of that possibility, but I thought it was an unusual word for a doctor to use.
That being said, it does sound more powerful than you could die. A lot of people say, “You could die doing <fill in the blank>,” so maybe that phrase has lost some power, where “catastrophic” isn’t used that often to talk about one’s health.
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. These are the Colorado snowfall totals for the morning of November 26, 2019, with significantly more snow expected today. Image courtesy of this tweet by Troy Renck.
Cowabunga, me going to need more cookie dough.
~ Broomfield, Colorado, November 25, 2019 (Thanksgiving week)
Here’s some source code that demonstrates a quiet, concise, and attractive new programming language I’d enjoy using:
SALE: I’ve lowered the price of the PDF version of Functional Programming, Simplified to $20 for the 2019 holiday season. I don’t know when I’ll increase it again, but the usual selling price is as high as $35.
I like these Zen dog garden sculptures and I’d buy them for friends, but I learned a few years ago not to give gifts that might be construed as being religious. The same company also has cats, frogs, and turtles.
