There’s not quite an hour left in the 52nd anniversary of Hawaii becoming a state (in this timezone, anyway). Time to clear out the browser tabs.<\/p>\n
Andy Firth believes that people who code for a living aren’t learning enough about the abstractions they use and what those abstractions are hiding.<\/a> I happen to agree with that. My list of things that coders should study\/know would be somewhat different than his, but that is likely to be just because of our differing backgrounds.<\/p>\n The economy is going to hell in a handbasket. My company isn’t exempt from problems; our customers have taken to using us as a bank that provides no-interest loans – customers on net 30 terms have been taking 90 days or more to pay. Here’s a good roundup of poll results<\/a> with respect to the economy and the government’s handling of it.<\/p>\n Perhaps this chart<\/a> explains some of the problem. Pay particular attention to the last two lines.<\/p>\n Accounting rules have, of course, contributed to where we are today with respect to manufacturing<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oh, for the days when farming was fun<\/a>!<\/p>\n While we’re on the subject of dynamite, I’d like to suggest this<\/a> as a problem that can be solved with a suitable application of high explosives.<\/p>\n I don’t agree with Fred all the time, but he’s almost always worth reading. He’s got a sobering take on the London riots<\/a>.<\/p>\n The closest I can come to matching this customer service story<\/a> is to note that I used to be a regular-enough customer at a local Mexican restaurant that the staff knew my usual order. Nowhere near the same thing. I’ll have to get to a Morton’s sometime when I feel as though I can afford it; such service deserves reward.<\/p>\n I need to find out more about this<\/a>. There may be nothing there, but, if there is …<\/p>\n Free online classes in AI<\/a>. Might be fun. Here’s more information about other online education sources<\/a>.<\/p>\n I saw an interesting documentary on burlesque<\/a> a couple of weeks ago. This song<\/a> was in part of it, but never sung in its entirety. I looked it up because it sounded fun. Note: the page automatically plays a MIDI file of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s not quite an hour left in the 52nd anniversary of Hawaii becoming a state (in this timezone, anyway). Time to clear out the browser tabs. Andy Firth believes that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,14,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-politics","category-reading","category-software","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}