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You still can’t get Mr. Big in American grocery stores.

Libraries are also a good way to tour a city. Get a transit card from a grocery store or a convenient store (also a lotto ticket because you never know).

Start with the main branch, then on to the various neighborhood branches. It’s important to pick a section you are interested in beforehand. Fiction might be too overwhelming, so I’d go for the math or computer technology sections.

Once you’ve done this in multiple cities you can compare the sizes of those sections between different cities and how current the books are, i.e, for tech books, do they have books on the latest trend in programming languages.

Go to coffee shops and bakeries in between. I can usually squeeze in the main branch and one or two neighborhood branches in a day. Research the city to figure out which neighborhood libraries to go.

His new company is called LoveFrom. Marc Newson is joining too.

I’d say the Soviet anthem is one of the best there is. They missed it so much it was brought back as the Russian national anthem after Yeltsin. Red Army Chorus has some good tracks like it. Very catchy and “patriotic” if you are in line to fight western imperialism.

One way I found helpful is to repeat or paraphrase what the other person had said in the conversation. At first I was surprised by how difficult this was. Then I realized it’s because I was just hearing the words but not processing them. This also signifies to the other person that you are understanding and engaging in the conversation.

The Java SE support roadmap linked at the bottom has more information. It looks like if you want to continue using updated Oracle JDK commercially, it’ll soon require you to be an Oracle support customer. And if you want to use the latest java and don’t want to buy support, there’s the OpenJDK. It’d be a good idea to start the approval process to use OpenJDK in production now.

Master of Doom contains an anecdote on this aspect of John Carmack's life. On page 252, it mentioned how he had sequestered himself in a "small, anonymous hotel room somewhere in Florida" as he researched Trinity. He had a dolch portable computer with pentium II and full length PCI slots, while subsisting only on pizza and Diet Coke. That bit for some reason made a big impression on me when I read it on the bus ride to school. To be able to let yourself go and research and code what you truly believe in or curious or excited about (w/ room service and not have to clean up after yourself haha) seemed incredible. I wonder if John still sticks to Florida, or if he goes to different places each year; in a city or just a hotel off of a highway or near an airport. My favorites have been Hyatt - Place Amsterdam Airport, - Regency Charles De Gaulle, and - Lake Tahoe. Something about sterile rooms, room service, a hotel near, but not too close to beautiful and historical landmarks just center you and allow you to think.