Photographs, reflections, and notes from my learning journey.
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Canadian Pacific Freight Train Driver
Whilst exploring the area around Banff on a day’s break from snowboarding up at Lake Louise my mate Stu and I followed a freight train as it slowed into Banff…
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Java: Pass by Value
Ever since I started coding in Java I’ve been regularly obliged to participate in conversations debating whether Java is a pass-by-value or pass-by-reference language. I’ve never been particularly hazy on…
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You Can’t Hide Behind the Trees…
Taken with my little Sony point-and-shoot with the polarized lens of my sunglasses as a makeshift filter for the hazy sunlight…
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Excellent study into potential benefits of regular glucosamine supplementation, with broad range of confounding covariates considered. TLDR: take glucosamine!
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Everybody I have spoken to with direct experience of Amazon’s corporate culture is impressed with the level of productivity it unlocks.
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The author has only anecdotal support for his assertion, but I have the same experience: “Configuration bugs are a disturbingly large portion of engineering decisions which cause outages”
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Disappointed to come back to SketchUp after several years to find it costs hundreds of dollars to use on my desktop?!
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Reddit is awesome – check out this response to my query about the translation of some Japanese text on a garment I have
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Having often intuitively leaned towards a “version control” mental paradigm for spreadsheets, documents, designs, photos, etc. this project is super interesting – version control for everything
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Some important reflections on the culture of geography in the tech community from Maggie Appleton here.