http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-a-10-warthog-may-be-kept-out-of-retirement-by-law-1773923092
I get why people are trying to save the A10. It is a legendary aircraft that performed well for many years.
I also agree that the new F35 is a ridiculously expensive boondoggle of an aircraft.
But this plan to make a law keeping the A10 is harmful to us. So is trying to launch the idiotic F35.… read more “A10 Warthog”
The worst way to start a work day is by checking your email. Email sucks you in and takes your most productive hours from you while only allowing you to get low priority tasks completed.
A much more efficient way to do things is to figure out what you need to achieve the night before then start working on that right away in the morning.… read more “Big Task To Start Each Day”
Managing complexity is one of the greatest challenges developers and managers face. Developers face complexity in the form of having code that can grow difficult to understand, and managers face it in businesses that become hard to comprehend. The human mind is finite and can only hold so much in it at a given time.
Developers have a number of tools and best practices to try to help make code more understandable.… read more “Complexity”
Nevin had a sports themed bachelor party this weekend in Dallas and I came along. 26 guys had a giant sports tournament playing flag football, soccer, halo tourney, basketball, 4×400 relay, badminton, home run derby, and tennis.
We had a huge 117 acre estate in Dallas we stayed at with a main house, cabana, pool house, pool, and spa.… read more “Sportslorette”
I am in purple… Kind of died in the last turn then revived at the end.
I wake up and pull my phone off its charger and go through my morning routine of reading Hacker News, Nytimes, Facebook, occasionally playing a bit of Chess.com. I head into work and stand on my treadmill desk in front of my laptop and external monitor working all day. In the evening, I go home and read on my Kindle or play on my phone or occasionally watch a movie.… read more “Screen Time”
You paid $1.4 million for the app that TSA agents use to decide whether you go to the left line or the right line. Any beginner programmer could build this in a day. https://kev.inburke.com/kevin/tsa-randomizer-app-cost-336000/?lobsters
