Just started reading "Continuous Delivery" by Jez Humble, et al. Really wish I would have grabbed this years ago, great primer on what (for me) is a confusing topic. http://www.amazon.com/Continuous-Delivery-Deployment-Automat...
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#352My 11 year old son did not want me to get him a story book. Instead he wanted a programming book, so we bought "Hello Python" by Anthony Briggs from a bookstore. The Amazon reviews for it ended up not so good, so we'll see how it goes: http://www.amazon.com/Hello-Python-Anthony-S-Briggs/dp/19351...
Anyway, I've recently read (my Kindle list):
* Curious Myths of the Middles Ages by S. Baring-Gould
* American Gods by Neil Gaiman
* Instrumentalities of the Night series by Glen Cook
* The Dragon Never Sleeps by Glen Cook
* Many HP Lovecraft stories which I hadn't already read (I bought HP Lovecraft Complete Fiction)
* Grimm's Fairy Tales
* Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius
* Takeshi Kovacs series by Richard K. Morgan
* A Fire in the Sun (Budayeen series) by George Alec Effinger
* Wool Omnibus by Hugh Howey
* Hunted (Iron Druid Chronicles) by Kevin Hearne
* Catspaw by Joan D. Vinge
* Peaky Blinders
* Top Gear
* Skins
* Grimm (where everyone in Portland lives in restored craftsman style homes and uses devices from Apple)
* The Grand Budapest Hotel
* Constantine
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#353The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism Jeremy Rifkin
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#354"The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains" by Nicholas Carr. I'm halfway through it. The main thesis of the book is that the Internet has quickly modified our brain (neuro-plasticity) so that we absorb information quickly but we don't get deep into any topic any longer. The book start strong with this thesis and then goes into a very interesting detour on the history of writing, from the egyptian to Gut…
I'll second this, and also note that it probably make a good read for those who suggested reading Marshall Mcluhan (who the author references heavily).
Overall I enjoyed it, even though there were parts that I couldn't agree with.
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#355Social Physics by Alex Pentland which is fascinating both in its conclusions as well as its big data methods.
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#356CODE - Charles Petzold
Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks - Paul Butcher
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#357Pompeii, by Robert Harris.
It's historical fiction, and one of the best reads I've had in a while. I particularly liked the descriptions of the aquarius debugging the waterworks.
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#358Earlier quoted context omitted.
If I can jump in... I'm a third of the way through Hyperion, and it's very interesting. It's Science Fiction that causes one to think. Atlas Shrugged is an important intellectual work whether you agree with the philosophy or not. It's a long slog, but worth reading to understand the people who follow it. It will just take a long long time. I read it when I was doing regular coast to coast flights. The Demon Haunted W…
I have tried Hyperion a few times but I find it a little too slow and I give up. One of these days I will get to it. Thanks for the input!
It is slow - perhaps because it covers deeper content and ideas? I generally read it on the exercise bike in the morning. :-) I do think it's very Literary science fiction, which may be what pulls down the pacing.
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#359Greg Egan renewed my faith in Science Fiction. I just finished reading Diaspora, and I am now a fan. It's an incredibly well thought out extrapolation of the future of the human race, much less phantasmagorical and much more grounded in science than pretty much every other SF I know of, while still going off into mind-bending tangents. I think the most common critique of his work might be about the occasional digress…
Yeah, if you liked diaspora then permutation city will have you picking your jaw up off the floor in a similar manner. Schild's Ladder is the third in the unofficial trilogy (he denies any connection, but I definitely reckon they form a nice trio) and it's pretty hardcore: lots of quantum mechanics and graph theory actually driving the plot. A fascinating thing about diaspora: if you read reviews of it, opinion is sp…
Do you recommend reading this trilogy in any particular order? I noticed that Permutation City was written before Diaspora.
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#360Here is a list of some good business related reading materials:
http://parcusgroup.com/blog/read-your-way-to-a-successful-pr...