Twas the night ‘for Quebec, and all through the house… soaking up our last few minutes by the warm wood stove! If we pre-toast our gear, will it stay warm for 5 days?
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Ready for Quebec →
Six programming paradigms →
This is not your grandma’s “functional programming will change the world!” blog post: this list is much more esoteric. I’d wager most readers haven’t heard of the majority of the languages and paradigms below, so I hope you have as much fun learning about these new concepts as I did.
~ Yevgeniy Brikman, from Six programming paradigms that will change how you think about coding
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Put the moment on hold →
You can’t stop nothin’
~ Jack Johnson
if you got no control.
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You can’t stop wishin’
if you don’t let go.
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You keep on rollin’
put the moment on hold.
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Quebec on Thursday! →
Is there a word for: “excited to meet new people, train in a new place, and freeze to death, all at the same time.” That’s how I feel.
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Where the jobs are →
While America continues to create market-dominating companies like Apple or Google, the number of American jobs they provide doesn’t compare with market-dominating American companies of the past like General Electric or Ford.
The reason why is simple: While much of the design and management happens in America, most of the physical products are manufactured in low-wage economies like China. Those factories that remain in America are highly automated, so that our manufacturing employment plummets even as our manufacturing output continues to rise. America still makes a lot of stuff, it’s just not made by people.
~ Doug Muder, from Where the Jobs Are and Why
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Photo gallery for this series
This post presents a gallery of ALL images in this series. You can click on any to enlarge; you can even click on the first, sit back, and it’ll run them all as a slide show. The gallery is dynamic so it will automatically grow…
Oil limits and the economy →
While the press treats these issues as separate stories, they are in fact very closely connected, related to the fact that we are reaching limits in many different directions simultaneously. The economy is the coordinating system that ties together all available resources, as well as the users of these resources. It does this almost magically, by figuring out what prices are needed to keep the system in balance—how much materials of which types are needed, given what consumers can afford to pay.
~ Gail Tverberg, from Oil Limits and the Economy: One Story, Not Two
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5 things about kids →
My coaching style was akin to playing a game of “whack-a-mole” at an arcade, quickly reacting to every behavior deviation I was unswervingly causing due to my lack of experience.
~ Brett Klika from, «http://brettklika.com/5-things-about-kids/»
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Escalating bad faith →
This is part of a pattern in which all sides are acting in bad faith, and have been for decades. (And it’s not the only example, as I’ll discuss next week. Signing statements are another.) It creates a vicious cycle in which each escalation challenges the other side to either accept a defeat that seems illegitimate or to escalate further. There seems to be no obvious place for this to stop.
~ Doug Muder from, Escalating Bad Faith, Part I
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Can you name a design pattern? →
A Design Pattern? You mean from the ’90s?
~ Robert C. Martin from, A Little About Patterns.
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