What did Pierre Trudeau say after learning President Nixon called him an asshole? “I have been called worse things by better men.”
Reminds me of our current president calling people names.
(Tweet by Jacquie McNish.)
Scala, Java, Unix, MacOS tutorials (page 97)
“Mutable state is fine but needs to be contained and non-observable.” A quote from Jonas Bonér, which I saw in this tweet.
Then there was the time Cookie Monster went to Wrigley Field.
The Book Thief is a favorite story of the last few years. I listened to the audiobook (hence this image) while driving around the United States. I know some people complain that the story isn’t original, but the writing style is very creative.
“In reality, programming languages are how programmers express and communicate ideas — and the audience for those ideas is other programmers, not computers. The reason: the computer can take care of itself, but programmers are always working with other programmers, and poorly communicated ideas can cause expensive flops.”
~ Guido van Rossum, in this 2016 article
August 13, 2019 Colorado weather forecast: Thunderstorms, rain, and egg-sized hail.
Went up on the roof of the garage to look at the meteor shower, which always reminds me that we're on a rock hurtling through space. Which further reminds me of this.
~ August 13, 2018
I often forget about it, but I was just reminded that Project Gutenberg has over 60,000 free e-books. This is a list of yesterday’s favorite downloads.
“You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair.”
~ Taisen Deshimaru, Questions to a Zen Master
“Truth waits for eyes unclouded by longing.”
I keep running into various versions of this quote (from sources like the Tao, Ram Dass, and Zen books), so I thought I’d share it here. All sayings like this mean that if you become like a clear mirror and view the world exactly as it is — not how your desires (and fears) want it to be — you’ll see the truth.
I remember reading this story where Steve Jobs was apparently friends with Rupert Murdoch, and Jobs tried to tell Murdoch that Fox News had become a destructive force in American society, and this might be Murdoch’s legacy.
It reminds me that when I first became a consultant, I was supposed to help sell a product named UnixWare from a company named Novell. Over time I learned that the product was crappy, and I didn’t want to sell it to anyone. So I learned the lesson, “Beware anyone that is trying to sell you something; if their morals are compromised, who knows what they’ll sell you.”
If you’re to believe Steve Jobs, this makes me wonder why Fox News would want to a destructive force in society. And like social networks, Fox News viewers are the product and their advertisers are the customers. (To be continued...)
They are called escape rooms. They sell an experience. The experience is escape, both literal and metaphorical. For around $30, you and a handful of friends/colleagues/strangers are “trapped” in some kind of space together and must collaboratively puzzle through a series of challenges to win your freedom.
The clock is ticking: You get 45 minutes, or 60, or 90, to escape, although if you fail, they let you out anyway. Usually, the game offers some kind of story to help explain why you’re solving puzzles in a room with a countdown clock.
Escape is big. There are, by the most recent unofficial count, at least 2,300 escape rooms in the United States.
~ from this vox.com story about escape rooms
Related to some work/research I’m currently doing I thought I’d share these links about the Scala 2.13 collections classes:
- The Architecture of Scala 2.13’s Collections
- Scala 2.13’s Collections
- Migrating a Project to Scala 2.13's Collections
This older link is also good:
I haven’t read this yet, but here’s a link to an electronic version of a free book titled, The Science of Functional Programming. Who knows, it may one day have an impact on my book, Functional Programming, Simplified.
My monitor is still a little too low. I guess I need to write a few more books.
I have my own personal motivational speaker. I discovered him on a trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico. (Sadly, the bookstore in Los Alamos where I found him is no longer in business.)
With the fireweed blooming in Alaska, summer will soon be yielding to fall and winter.
When people tell me, “You’re gonna regret that in the morning” I sleep in until noon because I’m a problem-solver. :)
I don’t know the original source of this photo, it’s been passed around Facebook a lot, but it’s funny.
