1. Sleep Sleep. Enough said. 2. Doodle or draw Great people, great minds spent time doodling and drawing im their free time. The doodles of past US presidents, inventors and artists like Da Vinci have become priceless artifacts. Your doodles might become greatly valued to historians or even just to Read more…
In this tutorial we will go through how to install and play version 1.0 of Minecraft using the official launcher. Here are the steps to download and play it with pictures. Step One: You will need to download and install Minecraft Java Edition from minecraft.net. Once you’ve installed it you Read more…
In this tutorial we will go through how to install and play the oldest available version of Minecraft when it was known as “old_alpha rd-132211”. It was also referred to at one time as “Cave Game” and RubyDung (RD), therefore this file is named “rd”. Here are the steps to Read more…
I could make a really long list of the attributes, attitudes and actions it takes to become an inventor or to continue as an inventor, but let’s start with my top ten: Tenacious or persistent Enthusiastic about innovation Calculated risk taker Good listener Not reactive/defensive Open to criticism / feedback Read more…
This is a collection of links and some details from these various articles on what a partition key is within Azure Cosmos DB and AWS DynamoDB. They are very similar as far as I can tell. How you choose the right partition key is via a similar approach in both Read more…
In 2020 as I had a few job interviews with various “FAANG” companies, I found that some of my knowledge of Column Store databases was lacking, so I wrote this draft blog post with a bunch of links, planning to polish it later. I don’t recall what the original vision Read more…
Every month or quarter or so I like to share the definition and maybe the background of a word (i.e. the etymology). This month’s word is Fortitude. The definition of the word is strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fortitude Fortitude comes Read more…