2 or 3, mostly history, non fiction and technichal.
Back in the day, with no internet available and more spare time, 10 to 15 books monthly.
Also I used to read mostly fiction.
I dont miss reading more paper books, the internet provides on demand knowledge.
Well, it mostly is; But the humor that gets upvoted its VERY funny, so, im ok with that high threshold.
I keep coming here because of the signal/noise ratio wich has not changed that much in my more than 562 days here, wich in internet time its a lot of time.
So, this is a truly valuable place.
Offtopic, im an Hacker/lawyer myself, im interested to get your hindsigth on being that.
for starters, do you use your coding skills in law related matters?
It also feels like patterns, little building blocks to build bigger things. Thats whats compelling me to buy it, its not just technique or recipes, its knowledge you can use to expand on.
Also, his blog is great.
I was using regular red eye drops on a daily basis, but they seemed to increase the damage. Now i use this natural eye drops made from Hamamelis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamamelis) and they help a lot, seemingly without side effects.
Agree. It seems to me that if you dont want to give things a thougth, just adhere to someone elses and call yourself a (insert religion/belief system/school of thougth here) and get on with it.
What does that pattern says about our program? is it a bug? a feature?
I find irritating at least the signal/noise ratio of tv and radio shows, im spoiled by being able to proactively choose what im going to hear or watch (via podcasts, reading on the web,etc) instead of pasively watching tv.
So, afaik, tv and radio have been dead for a couple of years.
Theres a downloadable Stanford lecture on Hannibal, wich is great; the archeologist guy who gives the talk was involved in a student expedition across the Alps, with a real elephant!
You can google the field manuals (FM) of the US Army and Marine, they range from operation of guns and marksmanship to strategy, to leadership. All great reads.
"I mailed the slip of paper to the White House, mentioning that the Chinese restaurant was located within a mile of Nixon's original house, and I said, "I think a mistake has been made; by accident I got Mr. Nixon's fortune. Does he have mine?" The White House did not answer. "
Got to love this guy.
Great reading.
This notion of different "times" is very interesting, a friend said you can find this in JS Bachs music, as it doesnt follow the mostly human notion of time, e.g. it doesnt have a beginning, a peak and an end.
JSPs, Servlets and POJOs. Im a complete beginner so im trying to learn the basics first. Im very aware of some Java shortcomings but I like the fact that I can get responses from thousands of books, tutorials, and the web. A bunch of Python frameworks looks very nice though, and the languaje also, but Im required to use Java for now : (
Also, I do almost all of my surfing in english, I buy online a lot, lots of people here in Mexico have credit cards (at least in Mexico City) so theres definitively a big opportunity here.
The web here feels like The Web in the US circa 1994, so you pretty much know where are thing going. Thats a great advantage.
Im mexican living in Mexico City;
Theres a lot of noise in the web in spanish, you find a lot of wannabes and a lot of people discovering the internet and thinking theyre going to magically get rich. I've read blogs about dev/hacker gettogethers here in Mexico, but havent found anything cool yet.
If theres someone interested in doing something in Mexico, drop a line.
You're very rigth, I was trying to share what I do to get myself out of those outbursts. Also I was under the impression that you were talking about a general condition.
One of my best friends is a painter, so I made a good mental exercise of trying to frame my interests in something more broad so I can discuss them with him. e.g. I talk about people creating things from my programming experience and my friend from his experiences as an artist.
You're being narrow.
Of course we all want people like us to talk with, but thats not the rigth attitude. Just talk with someone, try to find whats interesting about them, place yourself in his/her shoes and try to see what makes them tickle and then talk about it, youll find that you can almost always learn something.
When I find myself thinking about things the way you do (according to what you've said here), I said to myself: "DO something and stop whinning!"
Dont be satisfied with the things that come out of some intellectuall exercise only, try to check them in the real world, I dont believe that being a genius is a something youre born with. DO things, be smart, read Druckers "Managing Oneself", and maybe we all can do something meaningful out of this.
I learn by imitation, sometimes I've felt like adding a great punchline to a discussion, then I question myself if itll add value.
Most times it doesnt, so I dont post it.
EDIT
I also like that theres not a lot of meta-discussion, it would make feel a little commite-like. This community its a great example of self-regulation without making too much fuss about it.