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That’s five.
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that’s five!
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You ever have that funny friend, the class-clown type, who one day just stopped being funny around you? Did it make you think they were depressed? Because it’s far more likely that, in reality, that was the first time they were comfortable enough around you to drop the act.
~ David Wong from, Robin Williams and Why Funny People Kill Themselves
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Our host Julia rep’ing Pennsylvania Parkour. Two hour en Francais; Vincent chewed us up. I’m stealing all his QM warmups.
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What a neat section of Quebec! I promise, parkour photos coming soon . . . class in an hour.

first sign of parkour in Quebec
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Winter view of Niagara Falls on approach to Toronto. (Biggest swirl I’ve ever seen!) Onward to Quebec. #notFrozenYet #swirlsOnTheMove
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But democracies need to be able to talk. I have to know more than just what you want to do or want me to do. I need to understand why you want what you want, and I need to be able to explain why I want something different. We have to be able to discuss the nuances of our hopes and fears and plans — what’s absolutely essential and what isn’t — so that we can cobble together a solution that we can all live with.
~ Doug Muder, from The Republic of Babel
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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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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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