alvin alexander
Nodes for the term “january”
My free Introduction to Functional Programming video training course
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Free “Introduction to Functional Programming” video training course: January 21, 2024
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Introduction to Functional Programming: New videos (Jan. 15, 2024)
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Trump on Perry, Iowa shooting: “we have to get over it”
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Indomethacin withdrawal can lead to migraines, uncomfortable vision
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This week in Scala: January 15-21, 2023
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Combining the best of FP and OOP with Scala
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The Scala 3 if/then/else-if/else/end syntax and examples
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Scala: How to get the current month as a number or string
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Bono on OKRs
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“When it’s grim, be the Grim Reaper”
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Scala, MySQL, JDBC, database test code (for Google Cloud Run and Cloud SQL)
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Scala 3 ‘while’ loop syntax and examples
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Doctor struggling to give me a little bad news
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Sanctify Yourself
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The monk who broke things
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The Flying Squirrel Bakery Cafe, and Bernie
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Even for the wink of an eye or a flash of lightning, nothing lasts
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Shinzen Young’s mindfulness meditation technique for noting thoughts
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How (and why) Peter Garbiel left Genesis and went out on his own
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Make today the most important day of the year
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Keep Me in Your Heart for a While, by Warren Zevon
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Looking into writing a Scala 3 testing framework
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The Scala 3 scalac -source 3.1 option
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Virginia Beach tornado weather
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“Sometimes I think of Frank as the catcher in the rye”
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A story about editing Functional Programming, Simplified
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The Cult of Personality, by Living Colour
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A thick layer of ice in the parking lot, Wasilla, Alaska
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Scala 3 `@main` will have more functionality
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An awk script to extract source code blocks from Markdown files
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Rocky Mountain National Park, Jan. 3, 2018
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Big blue sky over Boulder
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Big open sky, Broomfield, Colorado
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Pilots playing tic tac toe in the sky (Boulder, Colorado)
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True emptiness is before thinking
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RIP, Dolores O’Riordan
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Wish you were here
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“Stagnation is regression” (Novak Djokovic)
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Second Edition of the Scala Cookbook
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After five weeks I can sit down again
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My “standing up” workspace
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Recent deaths in Alaska
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The benefits of mantra in meditation practice
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Meditation: From Guilty -> I could do this forever
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Yay, I can sit down again
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Mountains from my apartment in Palmer, Alaska
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What schizophrenia does to families
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Now this mountain I must climb, feels like the world upon my shoulders
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First night without pain in over two months
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Sri Argala Stotram, by Krishna Das
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A demonstration of how the Houston Astros were stealing signs
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A lot of people think that because you’re writing, you’re an expert
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Morality, the first meditation training
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Politicians: Lie on one channel, apologize on another
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This “I” does not exist
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Six ways to meditate (Vince Horn, Buddhist Geeks)
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Google AI Blog: A look back at 2019
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Bells
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Grandma’s cookies
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Awakened by the moon shine
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A momentary lapse of reason that binds a life for life
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Happy New Year, 2020
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Knowing the word ‘pericardium’ from a dream
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Make America Kind Again
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Quotes from Joe Walsh about being an alcoholic, and sobriety
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Working on pickup lines with my nieces
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Alexa, never play songs by James Taylor
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Primary school principal leads students in dance
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My niece is raising money for children
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On Twitter privacy settings and personalized ads
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You’re dreams don’t die until you give up on them
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Edible marijuana is causing a lot more health problems than inhaled marijuana
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Java 9 and 10 saw virtually no deployment to production
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Symptoms of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
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Belinda Carlisle shares the story of her 30-year cocaine addiction
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JavaFX: How to add a ContextMenu to a TableView
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If you are neutral in situations of injustice ...
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New “Hello, Scala” lessons
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“Notes,” a Scala + JavaFX demo application
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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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“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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“I am lost in your fabulousness.”
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“Silicon Valley’s ambivalence toward Trump turns to anger”
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Matching donations to the ACLU
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Next version of my Android football game
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Mast cell disease, histamine intolerance diet, and a healthy weight
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I’ll be drawing your blood today
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Scotch neat, please
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MCAS and orange jugs
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Came across a moose eating a tree
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Denali, Alaska: 10 days of breaking trail
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My Zen charity: The Zen Foundation
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New book?
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Wake up Alaska, it’s a big earthquake
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Rocky Mountains sunrise (January 28, 2014)
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What is a “value trap” in investing?
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17 inches of snow in Talkeetna, Alaska
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Ice halos in New Mexico
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