![]() (Alan Kay, in interview with Dr Dobb's Journal, 2012) I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. ![]() It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future - it's living in the present. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. And let me say, the experience of consuming this magnum opus was just as intense as the applications that it aims to elucidate.ĭesigning Data-Intensive Applications opens with a quote from Alan Kay on the culture of programming:Ĭomputing is pop culture. Now, fast forward two years and I just finished reading Kleppman's book over the weekend. This was my first introduction to Martin Kleppmann who, at the time, was doing research for this book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, And Maintainable Systems. Soon after that, my teammate, David Bainbridge, pointed me to an article that completely invalidated the value proposition of Redlock. ![]() A couple of years ago, I wrote CFRedLock - a ColdFusion implementation of Redlock, which is a distributed-locking algorithm designed by the team behind Redis. ![]()
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Setting-heavy fiction isn’t something that particularly appeals to me, and the witchy small-town Louisiana setting is a major selling point of this one. ![]() To be totally honest, the premise of Dark and Shallow Lies by Ginny Myers Sain didn’t really catch me. ![]() ![]() ![]() He ends by providing readers with a tool-kit to handle the kinds of deceptions we encounter every day, and charts a route through the muddy waters of the post-truth age. ![]() Every day, we encounter exaggeration, euphemism, economy with the truth, carefully selected words designed to mislead without actually lying, and sometimes, pure nonsense.ĭrawing on behavioural science, economics, psychology and his knowledge of the media, Evan sets out to explore the surprising logic of the bullshit we encounter. This brilliantly insightful book steps inside the panoply of deception and spin employed not just in recent politics, but in all walks of life, to explain why mendacity and nonsense are both pervasive and persistent.įrom the verbiage in company annual reports, to excitable headlines promising a new cure for cancer, to canned laughter on TV, and not forgetting of course political spin, low level dishonesty is rife. Low-level dishonesty is rife everywhere, in the form of exaggeration, selective use of facts, economy with the truth, careful drafting - from Trump and the. So why has bullshit apparently become the communications strategy of our time? And never has there been more concern about it.įrom President Trump to the Brexit debate, we hear constant talk of falsehoods and fake news, and appeals to alternative facts. Lies and deception, flannel and waffle, distracting decoration or flamboyance, artifice and insincerity, pure nonsense and gibberish: bullshit is everywhere you look. 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Published in 1981, this 167-page collection is typical Silverstein – a mixture of the silly and the serious written (and drawn) in a language that kids understand.Ī Light in the Attic is ranked number 51 of The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. ![]() In honor of this year’s Banned Books Week, I selected A Light in the Attic - a collection of poems and drawings by Shel Silverstein. ![]() ![]() But right before the deputy pops the question, Nora makes an unsettling discovery-someone has mutilated all her store's copies of The Scarlet Letter, slicing angrily into the pages wherever Hester Prynne's name is mentioned. His bride-to-be, Hester, loves Little Women, and Nora sets to work arranging a special screening at the town's new movie theater. Even though the shop and her bibliotherapy sessions keep Nora busy during the day, her nights are a little too quiet-until Deputy Andrews pulls Nora into the sci-fi section and asks her to help him plan a wedding proposal. While January snow falls outside in Miracle Springs, North Carolina, Nora Pennington is encouraging customers to cozy up indoors with a good book. ![]() ![]() Entertainment Weekly hails the Secret, Book, and Scone Society series by the beloved New York Times bestselling author as "a love letter to reading." In this entrancing new story, bookshop owner, bibliotherapist, and occasional sleuth Nora Pennington must enlist the help of her brilliant, brassy librarian friend to unravel the connection between The Scarlet Letter, an obscure 19th century writer, and a dead hiker. ![]() |