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Nodes for the term “december”
Heart procedure on December 23, 2019
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A short holiday “functional programming book” sale
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Sample SBT build.sbt file from the Kyo project
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#1 best-selling book in functional computer programming (Java/OOP to FP)
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Java/Kotlin programmer holiday gift, 2022 (book)
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Functional Programming, Simplified: Updated for Scala 3!
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Best 2022 holiday programming gift book (for Java/Kotlin/OOP developers)
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Functional error handling in Scala (Martin Odersky’s strawman proposal, 2022)
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Kickstarter: Free Scala and functional programming training courses
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An example sbt build.sbt file for a Scala 3 (3.0.0-M3) project (including scalacOptions)
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The Scala 3 'for' loop (for/yield) syntax and examples
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Functional Programming, Simplified is currently an Amazon best-seller
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Functional Programming, Simplified: #1 New Release
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Facebook deleted the “Lists (of friends)” link
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My cattle neighbors in Broomfield, Colorado
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Farewell (a Northern Exposure poem)
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Shinzen Young and meditating in the freezing cold
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Snowy Rocky Mountains, December, 2013
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The Rocky Mountains, Longmont, Colorado, December 31, 2020
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December 31, 2010: Aimed for Seward, ended up in Anchorage
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Started the morning with some hot chocolate
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Nurse at hospital: Do you feel suicidal?
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Prolong not the past, invite not the future
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A brief conversation with a Starbucks barista, somewhere in Colorado
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Christmas gift exchange (part of an ongoing dream series)
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Martin Fowler on lambdas, circa 2004
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The Law of Success affirmation (Paramhansa Yogananda)
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Outdoor ice skating arena on Wasilla Lake, Alaska
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Long drive from Kentucky to Colorado
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It’s only fear that makes you run
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GOTO and COMEFROM statements in programming
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Dick Allen passed away today
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Analemma of the Moon
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Heartrate while sleeping (via Apple Watch)
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“She seduced me with baked goods”
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Let Me Love You Like a Woman, by Lana Del Rey
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The Moon in the morning, December 3, 2020
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“Kotlin Quick Reference” book
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Ravens in the snow, Wasilla, Alaska
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Yay, I can sit down again
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Slid sideways through an icy intersection
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Keep fighting
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All the time that I’ve cried ... Outside, by Staind
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Xenna the service dog
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She didn’t want to die in the hospital
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Worst migraine headache ever
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The farther you get away from the body, the more you know you
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Alexa/Doolittle ad, supporting Toys For Tots
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Notes on using Dotty (Scala 3), SBT, and VS Code together
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A deer scores a soccer goal and then celebrates
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The PDF of Functional Programming, Simplified is currently on sale for $15
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Dinosaur “Make A Wish” birthday card
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Sunrise in Kansas
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How to use a non-default table column separator in Asciidoc
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Scala: How to search a directory tree with SimpleFileVisitor and Files.walkFileTree
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The Earth keeps getting hotter
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A tub of applesauce exploded
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Song of the Day: Never Surrender, by Corey Hart
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Dear Amazon: Kindle Paperwhite and ePub books
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If Functional Programming, Simplified seems large ...
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A holiday love story
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Perform the work that has to be done without attachment
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Talking to nurses about pain
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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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Starry Night over the Rocky Mountains
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Apple’s Terms: We may slow down your old iPhone
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ThinkGeek clearance sale
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It’s going to be a White Christmas
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When elephants see a human being their brain lights up
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There’s a lot of things that take place in this business that you can’t control
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Hello, Scala: A Scala tutorial
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Hello, Scala (Scala tutorial website)
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Toyota and Panasonic teaming up to make auto batteries?
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Seven questions you were too embarrassed to ask about Bitcoin
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A little snow in the big mountains
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Sizhao Yang tweets on “thinking”
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A hospital robot named Tug
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Progressive is much cheaper than Geico
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How AlphaGo Zero works
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New Jonathan Ive interview
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AlphaZero generalized to learn more games by itself
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“I’m trying to save my marriage”
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Jonathan Ive focused on design, again
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Third proof of Functional Programming, Simplified
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Projected growth of robot markets
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Republicans open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling
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December 8: The day of Buddha’s enlightenment (and Haven)
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Meanwhile, in Fairbanks, Alaska ...
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Strange cloud formation in Colorado
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Story about Lakers’ coach Luke Walton (and mindfulness and meditation)
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Functional Programming, Simplified: Print version, coming soon
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Just released 21 new lessons of my Scala/FP book
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Wind farm
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Driving through a snowstorm to get home
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Happy holidays, I’m preggers (jk)
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A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
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Lunar eclipse 2010, Wasilla, Alaska
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Two moose in Palmer, Alaska
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Evaluating the state and development of Scala
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-31 reasons not to live in Fairbanks, Alaska in the winter
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Clear skies with a chance of Northern Lights
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The snowiest place in Alaska
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Scala/Akka scalability
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-52 degrees in Alaska
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Hives (December 5, 2016)
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Latest ThinkGeek “geek gifts” holiday specials
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Reorganization at the company
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Get some december at the grocery store
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Cold morning
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