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Artificial intelligence has now passed the level of a one year old human or a mouse. Given the rapidly increasing speed of advances, I think we can count on one hand the years till it passes human level intelligence.

Having employees can bring some unique HR issues. Some of the more interesting ones I have had are:

• The guy who went and drank three alcoholic drinks at lunch and came back to work crying (this was four years ago)
• The remote employee who watched a movie while he was supposedly working (also four years ago)
• The guy who never wore the same clothes twice (I guess he just returned it after one wearing?)

… read more “Employees”

public function createBasecampTodo($bucketId, $bcTodoListId, $todoData, $userAgentEmail)
{
    $options = [];
    $options['json'] = $todoData;

    $this->uri = 'https://3.basecampapi.com/3140673/buckets/' . $bucketId . '/todolists/' . $bcTodoListId . '/todos.json';

    $this->_client = new Client([
        'base_uri' => $this->baseUri
    ]);

    $options['headers'] = [
        'User-Agent' => $userAgentEmail,
        "Authorization" => "Bearer " . $this->getAccessToken(),
    ];

    try {
        $this->response = $this->_client->post(
            $this->uri,
            $options
        );

    } catch (ClientException $e) {
        dd($e);
    }

The F-35 Program is a giant big-dig type project where billions of dollars are being spent to fight wars from decades ago. The next war will be fought with drones, not piloted aircraft. The current wars we are fighting are already primarily fought with these drones. Our next enemy will launch 100,000 drone aircraft to attack, not 300 or so piloted airplanes.… read more “Shut Down The F-35 Program”

Test Driven Development has been something I have done off an on (and generally not well) in my recent projects. This has led to me returning to projects later and making changes that introduce new bugs. It takes more time to write good tests, but it is super important to developing great software. I am getting better at doing this and have been trying to read a lot of programming masters books to improve myself.… read more “Test Driven Development”

Trader Joe’s Blue Stilton cheese is delicious. It has just the right combination of saltiness, stinky flavor, and buttery smoothness to make me very happy. I actually just eat it by the block. I am at work right now taking bites off my loaf. So good!

I have a lot of dreams where I am in scary or angry situations often somewhat based on worst case scenarios that my subconscious pulls together from actual experiences. I am currently undergoing a two year old small claims lawsuit that doesn’t have much material effect on my company, but due to the nature of the opposing party has become quite onerous.… read more “Dreams”