The 7-Minute Body > The 4-Hour Body
Source: The New York Times
The 7-Minute Body > The 4-Hour Body
Source: The New York Times
Teach yourself just enough of the grammar and the logic of computer languages to be able to see the big picture. Get acquainted with APIs. Dabble in a bit of Python. For most employers, that would be more than enough. Once you can claim familiarity with at least two programming languages, start sending out those resumes.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Front-page story in the Journal today about the Nintendo version of The Great Gatsby. A real thing! With video and a podcast interview and a dot drawing of an 8-bit Nick Carraway. (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s estate declined to comment about the game. I didn’t ask about the dot drawing.)
8-bit A-hed Nick Carraway FTW!
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Assuming you aren’t using a fancy screenshot tool, changing the default location for screenshots is easy:
Now all of your screenshots will be in a Dropbox folder called Screenshots. Feel free to replace that with whatever folder name you want.
Now you’ll have access to any screenshot you take on you Mac anywhere you use Dropbox.
¹If you don’t know what Terminal is, open up Spotlight and type in Terminal
Throwing is hard. In order to deliver a baseball to a batter, a pitcher has to release the ball at exactly the right point in the throw. A timing error of half a millisecond in either direction is enough to cause the ball to miss the strike zone.
To put that in perspective, it takes about five milliseconds for the fastest nerve impulse to travel the length of the arm. That means that when your arm is still rotating toward the correct position, the signal to release the ball is already at your wrist. In terms of timing, this is like a drummer dropping a drumstick from the 10th story and hitting a drum on the ground on the correct beat.
High Throw from Randall Munroe’s What If
At this point, if I had to choose between XKCD and What If, I’d go with What If. It’s really a terrific blog.
A couple of recent gems:
The last time Apple sold debt was in 1996, when the Internet was in its infancy and sales of Apple’s niche computers were struggling. Facing an uncertain future and struggling with a weak balance sheet, Apple had a junk credit rating and was paying 6.5 percent on its debt.
Source: The New York Times
A conversation I recently had at a “good” restaurant:
“Can I interest you in some water?”
“Sure.”
“Sparkling or still?”
“I’ll have tap water. Thanks.”
“I am not sure if we have that, but I can check.”
Source: faucetface.com
Ron Conway has in two short years become one of San Francisco’s power brokers, using his wealth and contacts to pursue his vision of the city.
If by two “two short years”, you mean 15 years investing and 40 years working in Silicon Valley, then, yeah, he’s suddenly become a power broker.
Oh my God,” you will say. “It was amazing. We ate at the most incredible local fish place. Seriously the best fish I’ve ever had in my life. Taipei was so fun.
Memo to The New York Times: What Actually Happens During “36 Hours in…” a Foreign Country by Juli Weiner
I would buy a coffee table book of these—to sit next to my other coffee table book.
