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  1. Bebop Jazz Icons:

    • Art Blakey (Moanin' - The Jazz Messengers)
    • Kenny Clarke (Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk)
    • Max Roach (Cherokee - Clifford Brown/Max Roach)
    • Roy Haynes (Blue Monk - Thelonious Monk)
    • Philly Joe Jones (Billy Boy - Miles Davis)
    • Jimmy Cobb (Kind of Blue - Miles Davis)

    British Rock Royalty:

    • Ringo Starr (Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles)
    • Charlie Watts (Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones)
    • Keith Moon (Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who)
    • Ginger Baker (White Room - Cream)
    • John Bonham (Good Times, Bad Times - Led Zeppelin)
    • Mitch Mitchell (Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix Experience)

    Afro-Cuban Hits - Ballroom, Folkloric & Pop:

    • Para Los Rumberos - Tito Puente (Mike Collazo, drums)
    • Quimbara - Celia Cruz (Johnny Pacheco, percussion)
    • Ponte Para Las Cosas - Los Van Van (Changuito, drums)
    • The Glamorous Life - Sheila E (Sheila E, drums & percussion)
    • Xiomara - Irakere (Bernardo García, drums)
    • Oren - Gonzalo Rubalcaba (Ignacio Berroa, drums)

    "The Latin Tinge" in Jazz Music:

    • Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie Big Band (Chano Pozo, congas; Kenny Clarke, drums)
    • Caravan - Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
    • So Danco Samba - Stan Getz, Joåo Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim (Milton Banana, drums)
    • O Grande Amour - Stan Getz (Grady Tate, drums)
    • La Fiesta - Chick Corea & Return to Forever (Airto, drums)
    • The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan (Billy Higgins, drums)

    "The Latin Tinge" in Pop/Rock/R&B Music:

    • What'd I Say? - Ray Charles Orchestra (Milt Turner, drums)
    • Mas Que Nada - Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 (João Palma, drums)
    • Oye Como Va - Santana (Michael Shrieve, drums)
    • Late in the Evening - Paul Simon (Steve Gadd, drums)
    • No Woman, No Cry - Bob Marley & the Wailers (Carlton Barrett, drums)
    • Cecila - Simon & Garfunkel (Airto, percussion; João Palma, drums)

    New Orleans, Louisiana, USA:

    • Struttin' with Some Barbeque - Louis Armstrong (Warren "Baby" Dodds, drums)
    • Poinciana - Ahmad Jamal (Vernel Fournier, drums)
    • Hey Pocky Way - The Meters (Joseph "Zigaboo" Modeliste, drums)
    • Iko Iko (Brother John) - The Neville Brothers (Herman Ernest, drums)
    • Big Chief - Professor Longhair (Johnny Vidacovich, drums)
    • Second Line - Treme Brass Band (Herlin Riley, drums)

    Shuffle Rhythms:

    • Choo, Choo, Ch'Boogie - Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five (Christopher Columbus, drums)
    • Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs (Al Jackson, Jr., drums)
    • Doin' it to Death - James Brown (John "Jab'o" Starks, drums)
    • Trouble Man - Marvin Gaye (Marvin Gaye, drums)
    • Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan (Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, drums)
    • Party Time - Buddy Rich Big Band

    5 Milestone Big Band Drumming Recordings:

    • The Mooche - Duke Ellington Orchestra (Sonny Greer, drums)
    • Jumpin' at the Woodside - Count Basie Orchestra (Jo Jones, drums)
    • Sing, Sing, Sing - Benny Goodman Orchestra (Gene Krupa, drums)
    • Cute - Count Basie Orchestra (Sonny Payne, drums)
    • West Side Story Medley - Buddy Rich New Swingin' Big Band
    • Skin Deep - Duke Ellington Orchestra (Louie Bellson, drums & composer)
  2. Pair programming 2018-02-23

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  3. With so many interacting components, the number of things that can go wrong in a distributed system is enormous. You’ll never be able to prevent all possible failure modes, but you can identify many of the weaknesses in your system before they’re triggered by these events. This report introduces you to Chaos Engineering, a method of experimenting on infrastructure that lets you expose weaknesses before they become a real problem.

  4. +++: backlit keyboard, battery ++: HDPI matte screen, touchpad+trackpad -: BIOS messages in approximative English --: no ethernet port ---: cooling / fan noise

    ETH available through:

    • 10$ generic USB-C adapter
    • 25$ Lenovo USB-C adapter
    • 150$ Lenovo USB-C dock
    • 180$ Lenovo docking station

    Cooling / fan control:

    • triggered when the CPU reaches approx. 46° / 20% load
    • slowest speed: 3400 RPM (!), goes up to 4000+ RPM

    TODO:

    • try updating BIOS/UEFI
    • use a laptop cooling pad
    • killall -9 firefox # not really an option tho

    User-contributed feedback:

    1. Understand user needs
    2. Do ongoing user research
    3. Have a multidisciplinary team
    4. Use agile methods
    5. Iterate and improve frequently
    6. Evaluate tools and systems
    7. Understand security and privacy issues
    8. Make all new source code open
    9. Use open standards and common platforms
    10. Test the end-to-end service
    11. Make a plan for being offline
    12. Make sure users succeed first time
    13. Make the user experience consistent with GOV.UK
    14. Encourage everyone to use the digital service
    15. Collect performance data
    16. Identify performance indicators
    17. Report performance data on the Performance Platform
    18. Test with the minister
  5. What not to do with data!