jakebasile

I'd suggest reading the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson. Humans are complex creatures and a distilled one sentence summation rarely does us justice.

Google Fiber has been "available and growing" in Austin for close to a decade now and it's still not available at my Austin address. I'm not going to hold my breath.

That TV movie is the first time I thought about becoming a software engineer. It's quite good.

I'm sorry for your loss. Know that, in time, the pain lessens and becomes unfocused, though you'll always miss him.

I lost my grandmother (who partially raised me) and my father (who is the reason I am an engineer) in the same year, 2014. I wish I had done this for my grandmother and my father. I'm glad that you got a chance to do what I didn't.

I get what you're saying, but 20 years ago a larger percentage of end users were computer-literate than today.

Having a gun allows you to protect your life and property with force. Owning valuable property like guns can make you more of a target. It is ideal not to have the ownership of that property broadcasted. The vast majority of gun owners hope never to have to use their weapon except to put holes in paper from a distance.

The "gun show loophole" doesn't exist. It is still a crime for a prohibited person to possess a firearm no matter how they get it. In many states including California, it is illegal for a private sale to occur without a background check. Somehow, many prohibited persons still acquire them, and their info wasn't just leaked by the California AG.

I miss what it was like to play EQ around the Vellious expansion. I loved that game. I've tried playing one of the "classic" servers and while it is close to how I remember it I no longer found it fun, since I have changed.

I will always cherish the memories from it. Meeting my wife in the Paw dungeon. Taking her to the Temple of the Dragons and going all the way to the top. Camping the Plane of Hate for her epic weapon. Camping the stupid giant in the ocean island for my epic weapon. That one zone without oxygen on Luclin. Making tons of money teleporting people around the world.

It's his fault and the buck stops with him, but guess who is remaining employed?

Often recursion is fine and doesn't cause any problems. I just use 'reduce' or 'loop' if it becomes an issue.

I've used Clojure for close to a decade. It's been an issue maybe once. The JVM is absolutely a plus for Clojure.

Clojure is a hosted language - it runs on the CLR and in JS/Node too.

That said, the JVM is wonderful and Clojure is the best way to access it.

Getting a taste of Common Lisp in college is probably the only useful thing I got out of that boondoggle. It left a seed in my brain that eventually encouraged me to try Clojure. Clojure ended up launching my career further than I'd ever expected while making my work life significantly more pleasant.

Lisp is a gift and I am extremely thankful for it.

I'll stop using `println` when it stops being so effective.

My mom has told more people where I work than I have. For her, she's much more concerned with the company vs the day to day.

I don't know of any consumer cameras that do this. Some manufacturers use a different filter on some models, Fuji uses an X-Trans filter on some models which in the past can cause issues with some software demosaicing.

Most modern cameras have the ability to do constant autofocus in video mode, to varying degrees of quality and success. Usually they will try to follow anything that looks like a human face, or at least the brightest object in the field of view.

That said, even the greatest autofocus isn't going to be able to keep up with a person who moves around a lot at f/1.8 - so it's reasonable to stop down a bit if that's the case for your subject.

Yeah this stood out to me too. If I publish code that I wrote for no remuneration, how does HackerRank claim to own the copyright to that code?

I've heard that "have a nice day" is prescriptive or even rude before and I just don't get it. It's not saying "I demand you have a good day", it's "I hope you have a good day".

That said, I just don't use signatures unless required to by corporate policy.

Much love to all the people that make Clojure such a wonderful language to use.

I'm particularly happy with the new keyword args semantics, which solves a long standing pain point.

The JVM is great. It's easy(-ish) to deploy and there is a library for anything you can possibly think of, probably more than one, on Maven. It handles large throughput and big memory usage very well and is extremely tunable.

Using the JVM doesn't mean you're limited to Java anymore, and hasn't for a long time. I have built software for the JVM for the past 6+ years nearly exclusively in Clojure with only a few moments where I needed to dip down into Java proper.

Before the printing press most people couldn't mass produce their written word. The printing press was a megaphone and a platform. Is taking away someone's access to a printing press censorship?

Not too many years ago no one had the ability to call anyone with a telephone. That service is provided by private companies in many countries. Is denying someone the ability to call their associates censorship?

Times change.

World War Z

Roadside picnic

Thanks for the review. Would you say it cuts down on smell? That is my biggest issue with cat ownership and I've been looking for ways to further reduce it (beyond better litter, baking soda, etc.).

Edit: Thanks for all the replies. I am still on the fence about it, and may try further options to reduce the smell (at least enough so that a cat-person like myself can live with it ;))

I've been looking at getting an automatic cleaning litter box for a while now. Would you mind recommending the type that you bought if you are so happy with it?

Well I guess I won't be seeing any Taco Bell or LSD ads there:

> Ads must not promote psychoactive substances, alcoholic beverages, tobacco products or fast food.

I installed it on my 4 year old top end gaming PC because Microsoft told me not to. Simple as that.

These have long been my favorite series of technical blog posts. I wish I could write prose like the author does.

It's probably a pun.

You can still check firearms for air travel. It's actually a great way to ensure your bag doesn't get lost.

You have to go to the ticket agent, and say I need to check a firearm. There's a little red ticket form you fill out and place on your bag. Then you take it to a special drop off. It has to be in a locked hard case that only you can open.

See also: https://www.tsa.gov/travel/transporting-firearms-and-ammunit...

Can someone who is smarter than me tell me if I should add this to the long list of ways I worry about dying?

I want to hope that this change will happen worldwide, but I doubt it.

It's a shame because I think of all the options presented as ways to increase quality of life this one would have the most drastic impact to the most number of people.