Scala engineer, functional programming, baseball fan, fantasy baseball manager
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Joined February 2008
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What inspires us most about Dutch planning?
They design for the future they want—with collective long-term investments that enable citizens to choose active, social, affordable, enjoyable and sustainable ways to move in and between cities.
Shouldn’t that be the case everywhere?
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The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility.
Let’s be clear — it wastes public money to NOT do it.
#CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife
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With 58% of all trips nationally made by bike, teenagers are among the biggest beneficiaries of Dutch infrastructure.
From a young age, they enjoy the freedom of a driver’s license; without the added stress, cost and danger.
The scene outside our son’s high school this morning. – at Delft, Nederland
ALT A sea of hundreds of parked bikes in a plaza outside a three-storey secondary school building in Delft, the Netherlands.
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In the Netherlands to reduce the # of kids drowning, a “swim ABC” program was rolled out from 1998. Kids learning to swim includes thrown into the water with clothes+shoes & getting out.
At the C level they are rolled into the water in coat & boots, simulating disorientation.
ALT Picture of A, B and C swim diploma requirements. A means kids wear T-shirt, shorts and light shoes. B means kids wear sweater and pants and light shoes. C means wearing coat, pants and shoes.
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We are sure that we are the most evolved living species on this planet?
(Wait for it)
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TIL it’s possible to fly a drone on Mars using dynamic typing and unsafe memory access
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On Jan. 31, 1971, NASA sent the Apollo 14 mission skyward. trib.al/Es3kAJB
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Python is getting pattern matching! Along with custom matchers, exhaustiveness checking, sealed classes, and much more!
python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622…
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Esto no es Minneapolis, esto pasó ayer en el barrio de Lavapiés (Madrid). Entre 6 policías intentan asfixiar a un migrante detenido que grita "la rodilla no".
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How do you change a light bulb in an immutable world? You're a clever functional programmer, so you have an idea — infographics from @impurepics.
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A new online seminar series in Functional Programming, open to the public, starts on Monday with Simon Peyton Jones. Welcome! chalmersfp.org
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Here's a great photo of the ISS by J. Mccarthy.
The reason why the ISS keeps its relative size against both the Sun and the Moon is due to a remarkable coincidence: the diameter of the Moon is 400x smaller than the diameter of the Sun, but it is also 400x closer to us!
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The fact that scientists were right to warn for decades about a pandemic makes me wonder if they might be right about global warming too
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Tras la sentencia del supremo anulando préstamos de tarjetas revolving por USURA, llegan los primeros movimientos de entidades para... seguir timando a la gente
cincodias.elpais.com/cincodi…
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A convenient way to mix mutability and inheritance. What could go wrong?
Did you know?
Properties declared as 'val' can be overridden as 'var', and property setters can be made less visible than their getters #KotlinTips
kotlinlang.org/docs/referenc…
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