Discrete Passions

Discrete is defined as constituting a separate entity : individually distinct.

Discrete Passions is a collection of statements and stories reflecting why I love life, starting before time and evolving with every new bit of awareness I acquire. People, Software development, Physics often top my list of discrete passions.

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Innocence is Forever

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On this Thanksgiving Day, I acknowledge it's special because of the memories of family and people I've known and loved. Oh man, th...

Saturday, August 24, 2013

Particles versus Waves -- Beautifully explained in a 7 short minutes...

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... not by me, though I try below. So the "discrete" in "discretepassions" comes from the Neils Bohr's observatio...

Saturday, August 17, 2013

Chipping away at manipulating and querying mongoDB sub-documents (with Groovy/Java)

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I'm building a little library of commonly needed MongoDB Groovy scripts using the MongoDB Java driver. Sub-documents are my favorite as...

Saturday, April 13, 2013

Magic numbers at it again: approaching critical mass of knowledge as video

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When I was running Lutris Technologies in the mid-90's, everybody knew I had a fascination in two things: serendipity (as it influences...

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Tackling programming in chunks

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Sometimes, out of nowhere, you discover you've acquired some wisdom over the years. Wisdom, in this case, was probably inherited from m...

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David H. Young: Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States; I am Chief Technology Officer for a fleet driver risk management company. My focus is on open source technologies and platforms. I've written two books: Visual Tcl Handbook and Enhydra XMLC. I've been CEO of a start-up firm (Lutris Technologies). And, as I always will be, a proud father of three brilliant, beautiful daughters... Linked-In: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kspar

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