alvin alexander
Nodes for the term “2018”
My colectomy (colon resection) experience (diverticula, surgery, recovery, diet)
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Gonna need a new t-shirt
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Near-death experiences: No thoughts in my mind, just peace
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A snow white tree, Louisville, Colorado
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Snowy trees, Louisville, Colorado
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“The day becomes something that happens within your meditation.”
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“Kotlin Quick Reference” book
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Painting of a church, La Fonda hotel, Santa Fe, NM
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Scala: A ScalikeJdbc example (including SQL SELECT and UPDATE statements)
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A “thank you” regarding sales of Functional Programming, Simplified
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Functional Programming, Simplified (on a dolly)
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Trying to make Functional Programming, Simplified smaller
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TV series “Becker” now on DVD
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Recovering from colectomy surgery
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Original “Functional Programming, Simplified” book cover
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“Vote for a future that works for everyone”
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Learning how to learn (Barbara Oakley)
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A map of Talkeetna, Alaska
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Shinzen Young and meditating in the freezing cold
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Jan. 3, 2018
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A brief conversation with a Starbucks barista, somewhere in Colorado
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Chalkboard-painted laptop
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The flatirons, Boulder, Colorado
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How Twitter built Scala tools to scale to millions of lines of code
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RIP, Dolores O’Riordan
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Moose on the road at Denali National Park
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In gratitude, you have watered seeds of love in me
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Popular Science’s 100 greatest innovations of 2018
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A ScalikeJdbc SQL SELECT “service” example
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Wish you were here
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North to Alaska
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Early snow at the Talkeetna airport
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Sunrise in the side view mirror (2018)
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Keep fighting
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Thanks to ongoing abdominal pain I know what a Trocar device is
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Overnight snow
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New meditation cushion (zabuton)
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The long road back
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The disappearing Pedersen Glacier in Alaska
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Made a woman cry today
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August drive from KY to CO
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Fireweed blooming in Alaska (and winter coming)
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Airplane slogan: Longer, larger, wait, what?
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Creed of a superhero?
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A little story about my brother-in-law’s funeral
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Talking to nurses about pain
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One way to meditate without distraction
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Firefly: Stop her from being cheerful, please
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We Said Hello, Goodbye (Don’t Look Back)
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Meet The Teenage Girl Who Is Allergic to Almost Everything (MCAS)
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As an investor the only thing that matters is ROI after taxes
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Don’t be afraid to hire people that are smarter than you
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The biopsy of the tissue from your surgery shows that you have cancer, but ...
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I think they made a movie about this
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Just another Talkeetna sunrise
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Surgery #8, Namaste
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A collection of startup Pitch Decks
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Introducing Kotlin Quick Reference
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Purdue University 2018 engineering gift guide
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Looking at what makes a baseball move
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Functional Programming, Simplified (large print edition)
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Starry Night over the Rocky Mountains
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Places I’m sending money to on Giving Tuesday
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Amazon Fire 10 HD: 33% off on Black Friday, 2018
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CBS working on a Northern Exposure reboot
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“Write one true sentence”
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Elementary OS: The prettiest Linux desktop yet
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How many Scala developers are there in the world?
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Frank Jordan, you are missed
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What the Republican and Democratic parties look like in the U.S.
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Baby owls in the loft
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Pulled a Steve Jobs and canceled my own project
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Happy to serve people in Alaska
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The migrations of the first Americans
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Why you can smell rain
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Voters looking into whether Colorado judges were appointed by a Democrat or Republican
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We in America do not have government by the majority
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Fury, an experimental dependency manager and build tool for Scala
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Better today than yesterday
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The view in Talkeetna this morning
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IBM to buy Red Hat; Dog pretends to be a stray to get food outside McDonald’s
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New Kindle version of Hello, Scala
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Sunrise in Missouri, finally back in Colorado
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Scala Cookbook in Library of Congress
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Continue to recruit your life partner
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An honest reviewer of apps
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Road trip sunrise
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The paperback version of “Hello, Scala” is now available
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It’s enriching to have a brotherhood of guys that you know have your back
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A cow driving an old Volkswagen van
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Boulder, Colorado Chautaqua information
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Functional Programming, Simplified (Kotlin version)
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Full moon over a rest area
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Haven’t felt like working
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Godspeed, Kenny
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Warren Buffett’s shareholder letters
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Getting back to work (again, again ..)
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The last day the Sun sets after 10pm
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Silent Lucidity (and lucid dreams)
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Domata Peko and the national anthem
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Starting to eat solid foods again
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I’m surprised when functional programmers say bad things about Scala
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Cats, Cubits, and Teleportation (and quantum computing)
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Gimp 2.10.4 is available
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12 yin yoga poses to awaken dormant energy and stuff
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First successful test of Einstein’s General Relativity Theory near supermassive black hole
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Joe from Tennessee (a college story)
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Josh McCown and ‘brain training’
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Scala Days conferences talks now online
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Best Buy Should Be Dead, But It’s Thriving in the Age of Amazon
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Talk Nerdy To Me socks
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Good hamburgers in Anchorage, Alaska
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Eight stocks with share repurchase programs
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The Moon and Venus
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Thai boys trapped in a cave were found meditating
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Older people with high blood pressure have more brain disease
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An Illustrated Proof of the CAP Theorem
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sttp, a Scala HTTP client
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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help
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Functional Typelevel Programming in Scala
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Back home following surgery (July 3, 2018)
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A note from reviewing the Scala Cookbook
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First proof copy of Hello, Scala
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12 Anchorage-area hikes (Alaska)
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Comments are disabled
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JavaFX: How to add a ContextMenu to a TableView
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Scala 2.13 Collections Feature Freeze
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Farnam Street Blog core principles
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Collect beautiful moments
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Bald eagles next door (Broomfield, Colorado)
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JetBrains Scala developer survey
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Google’s principles for using artificial intelligence (AI)
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If at first you don’t succeed ...
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Jacob’s Ladder electrical arc device
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The “No New Rationale” rule
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How to speed up Scala compilation times with scalac-profiling
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If you know your enemies and know yourself - Sun Tzu
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Still some snow in the mountains (Boulder, Colorado)
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Mast cell disease, histamine, and how stress turns into sickness
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Zalando “Tech Radar”
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Average wages after taxes (United States vs other countries)
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“Hello, Scala” - A swift introduction to a scalable programming language
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Berlin Scala Spree and sbt 1.1.6
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Oracle plans to drop support for data serialization/deserialization from Java
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Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo
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Going to have another body part removed
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The Scala compiler, getting faster
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First Annual Great Alaska Music Festival
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Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park is now open
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Chris Robinson talks music and Alaska
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Bill Gates story about Leonardo da Vinci
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Created a vision board and it all came true
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Travel Boulder (Colorado)
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Hanlon’s Razor
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Scastie, an interactive playground for Scala
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Scalameta, a metaprogramming library for Scala
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Scala 3: Tasty, and the plan for macros
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Scala 2.13.0-M4 release notes (collections changes)
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Scala 3 becoming more “opinionated”
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The Dalai Lama to retire after his next life (The Onion)
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Scala 2.12.5 compiler flag to let the backend run in parallel
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Definitions of scalac compiler options
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A company claims to be able to track any cell phone in the U.S.
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Subaru of Indiana’s “Zero-Landfill” status
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New book about Tiger Woods
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An interview with Zen Master Bon Shim
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Dries Buytaert: “Mollom: The story of my first SaaS startup”
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What hurt Hillary Clinton with voters
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101 Ways to Save Apple
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CPU utilization is wrong on PCs, and it’s getting worse
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The Google Assistant Developer Community Program
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Ben, you will be missed
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Google’s AIY kits (DIY machine learning kits)
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Interviews with Jeff Bezos and James Comey
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A favorite view of Boulder, Colorado and the Rocky Mountains
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Privacy policy updates
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Complaining is not a strategy
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Disabling Drupal 8 page caching significantly increases CPU use
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Yesterday’s ‘wow’ quickly becomes today’s ‘ordinary’
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Dotty will become Scala 3.0
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Royalty checks in multiple currencies
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Drupal 8 anti-spam modules, caching, and performance
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Great presidential quotes
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Birds can see Earth’s magnetic field
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The Medium Model
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The oceans’ circulation hasn’t been this sluggish in 1,000 years
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Every young person’s worth nightmare
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Mollom is out of business
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The center of the Milky Way has thousands of black holes
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Interesting stories of late (April 3, 2018)
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uJSON - Another Scala JSON library
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Funny tweet
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Business scandals/problems and how they affect stock prices over time
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“Dark Scrum: The case against the Sprint”
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Why is FP seen as the opposite as OOP rather than an addition to it?
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WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
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Helplessly Hoping
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Volkswagen’s big push into EVs (electric vehicles)
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Buffett-style investing as a three-legged stool
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The Five Gatekeepers of Speech
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“He has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me”
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Comments disabled for a while
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Columbine students protesting gun violence
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Trying not to go unconscious at 2:15am
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What joy is there in this moment?
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Gary Kubiak quotes about Case Keenum
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How to invest in artificial intelligence and robotics
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Political issues affect clocks
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View from my PCP’s office
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Android users have a higher loyalty than iOS users
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David Lynch, transcendental meditation proponent
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7% of astronaut Scott Kelly’s DNA changed permanently
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JavaFX is going to be removed from the Java JDK
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Giving up
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Is China leading the world in electric vehicles (EVs)?
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Chase, Amazon, and Berkshire are already self-insured employers
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Now at this very moment
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New “Hello, Scala” lessons
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“Hello, Scala” will be going up to $9.99 on March 1st
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Students and teachers standing up against the NRA
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“How Google Works” is a good read for entrepreneurs
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The Verge has two stories about Google, Android, and hardware
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Steve Kerr on the shooting in Florida and our government
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Ship and iterate
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In Defense of OOFP (Alex Nedelcu)
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Google “CLoud TPUs” available in beta
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“Notes,” a Scala + JavaFX demo application
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Information on blockchain, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and more
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“I’m not here to replace anybody”
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Prayers are not enough
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Charlie Munger book recommendations
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A good article on Verizon stock
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Bull markets don’t die of old age
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A panda playing in the snow
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All of us have to learn how to invent our lives
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Next medical procedure
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Is there a ticking time bomb under the Arctic?
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Alaska earthquake affects water wells in Florida
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How is salt made?
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How to Stop “Upgrade to MacOS High Sierra” Notifications
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Google AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business
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What Digital (eBook) and Print sales look like for a computer programming book
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Next medical procedure
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“In Colorado, a glimpse of renewable energy’s insanely cheap future”
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My “Scala Flat File Database” project now handles newline characters
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GM to mass-produce self-driving cars without steering wheels or pedals
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Counting medical procedures
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“Hello, Scala” update, coming soon
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A high school student won $250K for explaining relativity
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Science and tech leaders make predictions for 2018
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