Believing in a comfortable future for our planet probably means some giant carbon-sucking machines.
Category: The World
Life, the Universe, and everything in it.
The Open Office Will Never Die
Ellsworth Kelly’s “Austin”
On my Austin to-do list, this “monumental work, a 2,715-square-foot stone building with luminous colored glass windows, a totemic wood sculpture, and fourteen black and white marble panels” looks amazing!
Related NY Times articles…
Don’t Panic! The Universe Expanding Faster Than Expected.
When things seem a little “off”, you might be right. Not only is the universe expanding, but it is expanding faster than we (i.e. astrophysicists) thought. But don’t worry, we’re only off by about 9%.
Look for the word “megaparsec” in this article. It means 3.26 million light years. 🚗💫🤯
An existential nightmare
Scary stuff…
If dark energy remains constant, everything outside our galaxy eventually will be moving away from us faster than the speed of light, and will no longer be visible. The universe will become lifeless and utterly dark.
As the universe expands, the push from phantom energy would grow without bounds, eventually overcoming gravity and tearing apart first Earth, then atoms.
But just a theory so far
Let’s science the sh*t out of this…
Two space missions — the European Space Agency’s Euclid and NASA’s Wfirst — have been designed to study dark energy and hopefully deliver definitive answers in the coming decade. The fate of the universe is at stake.
The Trouble with Manager Objects – Ben Sandofsky
Benjamin Sandofsky, a Software Engineer in San Francisco, California.
— Read on sandofsky.com/blog/manager-classes.html
A technical pet peeve of mine, this post does a nice job articulating why “manager” classes in software design can be a problem. To me, a “manager” class is like saying, “this class does some stuff” and the stuff has no boundary. But what does this class do? What is it’s purpose? It might be a sign of an unfocused and unsustainable design.
Or as the post says:
Managers can be a symptom of poorly-defined responsibilities. When you think about it, the word “Manager” means nothing. In object oriented programming, every class is a manager. Cocoa Touch could have
UIApplicationManager,UIViewManager, and even a humbleNSStringManager.
Mental Break Town 