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Posts by Dave MacLachlan

Boating across the lake

Boating across the lake

Post hockey game photo

Post hockey game photo

Boated across the lake the other day to watch my nephew’s hockey game… in August. Only way it would’ve been more 🇨🇦 is if I’d saved a starving baby beaver on the way home by feeding it poutine and maple syrup.

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Thanks for that. Now I’m off to update every design doc i ever wrote.

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Once upon a time Apple had “Develop: The Apple Technical Journal”, which was a phenomenal printed magazine put out by Apple Engineers and DTS specifically targeted at Apple Developers. It was in print quarterly from January 1990 to March 1997 with 29 editions, most of which were over 100 pages long and were chock full of high quality technical information about Apple’s platforms. The Winter 1992 edition introduced “Kon & Bal’s Puzzle Page” which was written by the infamous Konstantin Othmer and Bruce Leak (with occasional guest writers). It was always done in the form of a dialog between engineers as they solved a problem. It was my favorite part of Develop even though I don’t think I ever scored higher than a zero. Recently we stumbled upon something that we thought was worthy of a Puzzle Page, and hopefully KON and BAL will appreciate this homage.

Some random Apple geeking out by yours truly.

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Looks about right to me…

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My nuts and bolts seem so lame…

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Get them before the tariffs!

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Should’ve brought my spikes for long run Sunday. #what_super_bowl

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Whoa. This seems more than a little sketchy.

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New app appeared on my TV. Right audience, too bad about the icon…

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On those criteria Zaphod Beeblebrox is one of the most successful Presidents the Galaxy has ever had—he has already spent two of his ten presidential years in prison for fraud.”

• ⁠Douglas Adams, The HitchHikers Guide To The Galaxy

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For this reason the President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

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“The President in particular is very much a figurehead—he wields no real power whatsoever. He is apparently chosen by the government, but the qualities he is required to display are not those of leadership but those of finely judged outrage.

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One of my favourite parts of travelling is the mini IQ test i get to do on the first morning figuring out how the stupid shower works.

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If you haven’t watched Trudeau’s speech, it”s definitely worth a listen. IMHO it sounds like he feels a broader realignment is inevitable.

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At this point I’m just expecting the Nexus program to be abolished. It was nice while it lasted…

To be clear nothing has been announced, but I’m having troubles seeing it survive the current sabre rattling.

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