Posts tagged "books"
Saddest thing seen recently October 16, 2007
Why People Turn to Bombs January 28, 2008
Apress books July 15, 2008
Link o' the Day: Beej! July 24, 2010
Monads and regular expressions August 8, 2010
David Berlinski, The Devil's Delusion: Turing machine and abacus September 18, 2010
Knights, knaves, and Program Construction November 11, 2010
If I Only Changed the Software, Why Is the Phone on Fire? March 11, 2011
A few more comments about ...Why Is the Phone on Fire? March 14, 2011
Poison, forensic medicine, and facts April 1, 2011
When Domain Specific Languages Attack! June 4, 2011
The Clean Coder March 18, 2012
Logicomix May 28, 2012
Quote o' the day: proofs and algorithms June 12, 2012
JavaScript: The Good Parts June 26, 2012
Link o' the day: Any New Books? June 27, 2012
Link o' the day: Why ebooks cost as much as paperbacks August 18, 2012
RESTful web services January 25, 2013
The Box and economics July 22, 2013
Link o' the day: Codeless Code July 30, 2013
The worst notational abuse October 17, 2013
Handbook to Life in Ancient Mesopotamia July 2, 2015
Geek Physics by Rhett Allain July 6, 2015
Exploring Syuzhet August 8, 2015
Syuzhet: Prodding the Frequency Domain August 19, 2015
A New Thing September 28, 2015
Ashurbanipal, a text recommendation engine October 6, 2015
Quote o' the day: Memory Speed May 23, 2016
This is a quote from Expert C Programming, describing something that I’ve also been complaining about for roughly as long as this book has been in existence. (Remember, it was published in 1994.)
Read more…Debunking Economics - Ch. 3: The Demand Curve January 25, 2017
Reading: Why the West Rules---For Now May 26, 2018
From Why the West Rules—For Now: The patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future, by Ian Morris:
Read more…How to Live, or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer July 25, 2018
Male-pattern baldness and a big mustache.
Ok, so a biography of Michel de Montaigne, a man who invented the essay and examined his own thoughts and reactions, seems a bit like duct-taping a ten-foot pole to another ten-foot pole, but How to Live, or a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer, by Sarah Bakewell, is not bad. It has its moments, anyway.
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