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A search on Amazon for Harry Huskey returned books by Harry Huskey as the first results.

I don't know what you searched for, but I suspect you need more practice doing it.

"Framing Software Reuse: Lessons From the Real World" by Paul G. Bassett
https://www.amazon.com/Framing...
explains (among many other things) how to implement most of the benefits of OO - in COBOL. Search for "Basset Frame technology COBOL" to find out more. [Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with this technology, or products that use it. I just find it admirably clean, simple and practical].

https://www.amazon.com/Creativ...

It's 40 odd years old, but still one of the most 'humane' books about business: https://www.amazon.com/Up-Orga...

Treat people well, don't lie, don't be a bureaucrat. Not a single thing about beanbags, strange hairstyles and flat whites (whatever they are?) in there either.

• Running Lean . Ash Maurya. The step by step application of Lean Startup & Customer Development.
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It . Michael Gerber. What you have to do to run a company that delivers better service consistently, works better, and is worth more with less effort. In a few words: work on your business, not in your business.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less .Greg McKeown. If you find yourself stretched too thin, overworked and loosing motivation this book will help you refocus on your professional and personal life.
• Business Model Generation . Ostewalder & Pigneur. Their Business Model Canvas has revolutionized the way we think about creating business and accelerates a lot the creation of a viable business plan. Complemented with Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.
• Information Rules . Shapiro, Varian (yes, Google’s Varian). A classic that is fully applicable now a days. The examples are old but not the business logic.
• Pimento Map . Cedric Donck. To learn how to evaluate a startup or business opportunity as an investor.
• The Management Playbook .Brandon Allen. Great reading about how to develop an effective management style.
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk .Adele Faber. Not only a parenting book, also good to teach you to talk and listen to your team.

• Running Lean . Ash Maurya. The step by step application of Lean Startup & Customer Development.
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It . Michael Gerber. What you have to do to run a company that delivers better service consistently, works better, and is worth more with less effort. In a few words: work on your business, not in your business.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less .Greg McKeown. If you find yourself stretched too thin, overworked and loosing motivation this book will help you refocus on your professional and personal life.
• Business Model Generation . Ostewalder & Pigneur. Their Business Model Canvas has revolutionized the way we think about creating business and accelerates a lot the creation of a viable business plan. Complemented with Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.
• Information Rules . Shapiro, Varian (yes, Google’s Varian). A classic that is fully applicable now a days. The examples are old but not the business logic.
• Pimento Map . Cedric Donck. To learn how to evaluate a startup or business opportunity as an investor.
• The Management Playbook .Brandon Allen. Great reading about how to develop an effective management style.
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk .Adele Faber. Not only a parenting book, also good to teach you to talk and listen to your team.

• Running Lean . Ash Maurya. The step by step application of Lean Startup & Customer Development.
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It . Michael Gerber. What you have to do to run a company that delivers better service consistently, works better, and is worth more with less effort. In a few words: work on your business, not in your business.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less .Greg McKeown. If you find yourself stretched too thin, overworked and loosing motivation this book will help you refocus on your professional and personal life.
• Business Model Generation . Ostewalder & Pigneur. Their Business Model Canvas has revolutionized the way we think about creating business and accelerates a lot the creation of a viable business plan. Complemented with Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.
• Information Rules . Shapiro, Varian (yes, Google’s Varian). A classic that is fully applicable now a days. The examples are old but not the business logic.
• Pimento Map . Cedric Donck. To learn how to evaluate a startup or business opportunity as an investor.
• The Management Playbook .Brandon Allen. Great reading about how to develop an effective management style.
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk .Adele Faber. Not only a parenting book, also good to teach you to talk and listen to your team.

• Running Lean . Ash Maurya. The step by step application of Lean Startup & Customer Development.
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It . Michael Gerber. What you have to do to run a company that delivers better service consistently, works better, and is worth more with less effort. In a few words: work on your business, not in your business.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less .Greg McKeown. If you find yourself stretched too thin, overworked and loosing motivation this book will help you refocus on your professional and personal life.
• Business Model Generation . Ostewalder & Pigneur. Their Business Model Canvas has revolutionized the way we think about creating business and accelerates a lot the creation of a viable business plan. Complemented with Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.
• Information Rules . Shapiro, Varian (yes, Google’s Varian). A classic that is fully applicable now a days. The examples are old but not the business logic.
• Pimento Map . Cedric Donck. To learn how to evaluate a startup or business opportunity as an investor.
• The Management Playbook .Brandon Allen. Great reading about how to develop an effective management style.
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk .Adele Faber. Not only a parenting book, also good to teach you to talk and listen to your team.

• Running Lean . Ash Maurya. The step by step application of Lean Startup & Customer Development.
• The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It . Michael Gerber. What you have to do to run a company that delivers better service consistently, works better, and is worth more with less effort. In a few words: work on your business, not in your business.
• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less .Greg McKeown. If you find yourself stretched too thin, overworked and loosing motivation this book will help you refocus on your professional and personal life.
• Business Model Generation . Ostewalder & Pigneur. Their Business Model Canvas has revolutionized the way we think about creating business and accelerates a lot the creation of a viable business plan. Complemented with Ash Maurya’s Lean Canvas.
• Information Rules . Shapiro, Varian (yes, Google’s Varian). A classic that is fully applicable now a days. The examples are old but not the business logic.
• Pimento Map . Cedric Donck. To learn how to evaluate a startup or business opportunity as an investor.
• The Management Playbook .Brandon Allen. Great reading about how to develop an effective management style.
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk .Adele Faber. Not only a parenting book, also good to teach you to talk and listen to your team.

Business Adventures https://www.amazon.com/Busines... The New New Thing https://www.amazon.com/New-Thi... and probably Microserfs: https://www.amazon.com/Microse...

Business Adventures https://www.amazon.com/Busines... The New New Thing https://www.amazon.com/New-Thi... and probably Microserfs: https://www.amazon.com/Microse...

Business Adventures https://www.amazon.com/Busines... The New New Thing https://www.amazon.com/New-Thi... and probably Microserfs: https://www.amazon.com/Microse...

The Incredible Secret Money Machine.

There is no other book like it.

https://www.amazon.com/Incredi...

... Amazon servers incorrectly responded to a DDoS:

Groucho Marx Glasses

Unless a work includes material licensed under terms that require payment of residuals per copy, all the work involved in production, editing, and mastering is a sunk cost that was covered by the work's crowdfunding campaign. The marginal cost of distributing a copy of a work is the cost of transmitting it over the Internet, for which AWS charges 0.09 USD per GB.

Lynchings are different then Riots, but I also linked to RIOTS that not only did property damage, they completely destroyed black towns.

Yes, you did. Your reasoning was something like "(1) white people attacked blacks, (2) white people attacking blacks must be conservatives, (3) therefore conservatives riot". Your error was in premise number (2). So, no support for your claim that the Tulsa riots were riots by "conservatives". Based on history and circumstance, it seems more plausible that they were whites angry at the economic success of some blacks, which would make them progressive rather than conservative, but we simply don't know for certain. Your example didn't support your point, but it reveals your ignorance about the history of racism in the US.

And what we were discussing your the claim that slavery in the 19th century caused blacks in the 21st century to be disadvantaged, which your example had nothing to do with.

I'm not commenting on this further. Your stating clear falsehoods and someday someone will find your comments and assume they have some basis in reality. You don't deserve any further opportunity to post your lies.

Look, I understand where you are coming from: I used to be a progressive and moderate leftist as well: it was the obvious choice as a gay, atheist immigrant, but that changed when I actually started reading history and political science (I'm an independent now).

There is tons of stuff you ought to read, but a good start might be Sowell, who grew up poor in the South and was started out as an ardent leftist:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

https://www.amazon.com/Intelle...

In case anyone was wondering exactly which books this APK is referring to for the Occult / Conspiracy readers ...

Manley Palmer Hall, Secret Teaching of All Ages, or Kindle edition

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Since it was originally published in 1871 you can find it on Project Gutenberg

Madame Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Annie Besant, The Ancient Wisdom

Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these except the Manley's P. Hall which is an excellent compendium -- especially the original over-sized print version. The full sub-title is "An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages". LOL. He actually does a decent job summarizing these.

We now return you to your pointless circle-jerk between Microshaft, Crapple, Linsucks, Bitcoin, etc. ...

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Apostle Paul the Murder, noun, murderer of Stephen, corruptor of The Way, attempted murderer of James. Why do you people listen to his garbage ego again??

In case anyone was wondering exactly which books this APK is referring to for the Occult / Conspiracy readers ...

Manley Palmer Hall, Secret Teaching of All Ages, or Kindle edition

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Since it was originally published in 1871 you can find it on Project Gutenberg

Madame Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Annie Besant, The Ancient Wisdom

Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these except the Manley's P. Hall which is an excellent compendium -- especially the original over-sized print version. The full sub-title is "An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages". LOL. He actually does a decent job summarizing these.

We now return you to your pointless circle-jerk between Microshaft, Crapple, Linsucks, Bitcoin, etc. ...

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Apostle Paul the Murder, noun, murderer of Stephen, corruptor of The Way, attempted murderer of James. Why do you people listen to his garbage ego again??

In case anyone was wondering exactly which books this APK is referring to for the Occult / Conspiracy readers ...

Manley Palmer Hall, Secret Teaching of All Ages, or Kindle edition

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Since it was originally published in 1871 you can find it on Project Gutenberg

Madame Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Annie Besant, The Ancient Wisdom

Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these except the Manley's P. Hall which is an excellent compendium -- especially the original over-sized print version. The full sub-title is "An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages". LOL. He actually does a decent job summarizing these.

We now return you to your pointless circle-jerk between Microshaft, Crapple, Linsucks, Bitcoin, etc. ...

--
Apostle Paul the Murder, noun, murderer of Stephen, corruptor of The Way, attempted murderer of James. Why do you people listen to his garbage ego again??

In case anyone was wondering exactly which books this APK is referring to for the Occult / Conspiracy readers ...

Manley Palmer Hall, Secret Teaching of All Ages, or Kindle edition

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Since it was originally published in 1871 you can find it on Project Gutenberg

Madame Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Annie Besant, The Ancient Wisdom

Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these except the Manley's P. Hall which is an excellent compendium -- especially the original over-sized print version. The full sub-title is "An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages". LOL. He actually does a decent job summarizing these.

We now return you to your pointless circle-jerk between Microshaft, Crapple, Linsucks, Bitcoin, etc. ...

--
Apostle Paul the Murder, noun, murderer of Stephen, corruptor of The Way, attempted murderer of James. Why do you people listen to his garbage ego again??

In case anyone was wondering exactly which books this APK is referring to for the Occult / Conspiracy readers ...

Manley Palmer Hall, Secret Teaching of All Ages, or Kindle edition

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
Since it was originally published in 1871 you can find it on Project Gutenberg

Madame Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

Annie Besant, The Ancient Wisdom

Personally, I wouldn't bother with any of these except the Manley's P. Hall which is an excellent compendium -- especially the original over-sized print version. The full sub-title is "An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings Concealed Within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of All Ages". LOL. He actually does a decent job summarizing these.

We now return you to your pointless circle-jerk between Microshaft, Crapple, Linsucks, Bitcoin, etc. ...

--
Apostle Paul the Murder, noun, murderer of Stephen, corruptor of The Way, attempted murderer of James. Why do you people listen to his garbage ego again??

I beg to differ. Non-organic vegetables are raised on depleted soil and only produce due to copious quantities of the chemicals N-P-K. These chemicals were derived during the war as they are ingredients used in making bombs. After the war, all this manufacturing capacity needed an outlet - "Think of the corporations! Have you no soul?!". So they discovered that adding these chemicals caused plants to grow vigorously et voila! Here we are with pesticide enhanced and chemically fertilized products. These vegetables look like real vegetables but are nothing more than a look-alike, completely poor in nutritive qualities. This book covers the topic well: https://www.amazon.com/Empty-H...

Organic produce is fed by the biota in the soil, which lives there and provides nutrients to the things that grow there. It makes nutrients available in a way that a plant can absorb them. In the pesticide laden soil, not much insect life other than spiders, same as my garage with its concrete floor.

Produce is a product that quickly loses nutritive value so speed from market matters. I really favor local rather than big-agriculture-type organic.

The easiest way to see price discrimination is to go to the rich side of town and go to the grocery store. Observe the price of milk, hamburger, cheese and gasoline. Now to to the poor side of town, repeat.

I have not done this (actual data collection and comparison), my casual observations is grocery stores in poorer parts of town have less quality fruits and vegetables (if they carry these). For rich people it is not so much the price of groceries but convenience, though some are I think many probably have better things to do than spend a lot of time haggling over getting the cheapest price.

Perhaps rather than focus on just price, look at quality. Good food leads to better living, this is a big gotcha for poor people as they have limited means to get healthy foods and end up more health problems, further aggravated by dismal health care system.

Buy online or at a brick-n-mortar store? In many ways it comes down to what is possible. Here in Silicon Valley it can be more convenient to stop at a store, find some gadget/part/device in real life to examine and compare to other items. However this has issues of many places have closed down or significantly reduced, or don't seem to stock variety like they used to. Also a big factor is the traffic is a huge time killer. Driving on El Camino, Lawrence Expy, other roads takes a lot of time (I seem to hit ***every*** red light). Man, I don't want to spend so much time in a damn car. So I will order online. But wait, not go for the cheapest item otherwise it will be crap and will then make its way to the landfill.

Speaking of cheap crap, "Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion" https://www.amazon.com/Overdre...

Verizon's cable boxes need network access - which you can provide using your network equipment if you use a MoCA bridge like this one:

https://smile.amazon.com/Actio...

The caveat is that you need to ask Verizon to provision your ONT Ethernet not MoCA.

No, that's backwards. Oreo was a Hydrox knockoff.

Note that Hydrox has been reproduced using taste tests, science, and our wonderful legal system. It's available here: https://www.amazon.com/Leaf-Hy...

Functional reactive programming came out of the functional community. Assume you had an array of all the inputs the end user entered for a game that already happened. Then the engine can create an array of all the corresponding outputs. That's your engine. Now wrap the construction of those two arrays in a stateful monad (IO).

This book ( https://www.amazon.com/Haskell... ) is out of date but it will teach the ideas well. You'll create a video game and a music player.

In general though, no video games don't generally get written in functional languages they are too messy and stateful. Video game engines though can easily be written in functional languages.

I totally agree with everything you say, you're right, of course, except for the Swiss Army Knife example. The large ones with tons of features are useless, but the Victorinox Rambler Pocket Knife is absolutely awesome. I use it multiple times daily. This kind of supports your point, though, because e.g. the Victorinox Mini Champ with way more functions is too bulky and has too many features in comparison.

You see the influence of money, and the power it commands, everywhere nowadays. Sportspeople who, 50 years ago, were forbidden to earn a penny from their talent on pain of exclusion for professionalism, can now earn millions in a few short years. Result: an explosion of drug-taking and other forms of cheating. Politicians who had no visible property and very little income when they began their careers seem to retire as multi-millionaires. Result: an explosion of dishonest practices, including treason. But the worst of all is the corrosive influence of money on science - which used to be the hallmark of reliable, objective truth. It's usually quite subtle, indirect, almost unnoticeable. But it leads to very clear and definite consequences. Scientists who challenge the established paradigms are no longer just up against intellectual inertia; they will be mocked, traduced, slandered and often find that strings are pulled to get them dismissed or ignored.

One good example (out of the thousands that could be mentioned) is the career of Dr John Yudkin, the British scientist who suggested 40 years ago that dietary fat was unlikely to cause disease, and that sugar was a much more likely cultprit. That ran directly counter to the gospel being preached (most profitably) by the American scientist Dr Ancel Keys, who told the world that fat and cholesterol cause heart disease, strokes and cancer. Keys directly libelled and slandered Yudkin, with the result that his work was disgracefully neglected. Today it is perfectly clear that, in all essentials, Yudkin was right and Keys was wrong. But guess which of them died rich and famous?

"Pure, White and Deadly" by Dr John Yudkin https://www.amazon.com/Pure-Wh...

Remember when HP mattered?

Yeah, but that was before someone "competent like Carly Fiorina" got her hands on it.

Put down the bong, and pick up a book.

OK smartypants, if you think it is an "error," what is the authority on English grammar? Is there a book or something that lists the rules?

maybe these will do the trick.. they are good enough for universities.
or these should suffice
you SEEM to think that "seen" is a perfectly fine and esoteric substitute for "seem"... it's not.
You also seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that you are right under all circumstances even when blatantly wrong.
I also find your utter pretentiousness absolutely hilarious! 100% entertainments from how hard you bite. It's just magical!...
Please tell us all how magical and fabulous you are again!...

Oops, sorry - I listed the wrong Amazon web page URL. The one that I listed was for the AWN432S. I got the AWN432SP. Its web page is here.

If you get an AWN432SP, then I suggest you -not- get it through Amazon. All of the 1-star Amazon reviewers were for "Verified Purchase" washers - i.e., they were bought via Amazon.

Yes, as the Amazon web page says, "The full tub wash & rinse feature fills the entire tub with water . . .". However, some Amazon reviewers have written that because of some law, Speed Queen would soon have to make washers that use less water. I don't know if that's true. An appliance salesperson should be able to tell you. They don't seem to sell their machines from regular department stores like Sears. Their list of where to buy their machines seems to list only appliance stores. (Or you can get one through Amazon.)

Before you wash your first load in a new Speed Queen washer, you'll probably have to clean out a thin film of oil that's in the tub. You don't see the oil, but if you wipe a paper towel on the inside of the tub, you'll see that the towel has collected a little bit of grease. The Speed Queen customer service rep recommended Simple Green for the cleaning. (You only have to clean the tub once.)

Other than that, I like the washer. One nice feature is that when it's doing a spin dry, the washer is very stable. I can barely feel it moving back and forth. Also if you want to sanitize some clothes, you can set the wash temperature to "hot", and the wash water will be very hot. (The rinse temperature is always cold, though.)

• Myths of Innovation
• The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity
• Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds

• Myths of Innovation
• The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity
• Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds

• Myths of Innovation
• The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity
• Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds

https://www.amazon.com/Mars-Pa... Excellent book about managing a project of unknowns. Well written and concise.

Take you pick https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=n.... So find a bunch of irascible geeks with a mind bent in the direction of you problem. The present them with you problem and care and nuture them, whilst offering them a reward for the solution (negative reinforcement will fail as it does not feed creative outcomes). Geeks, inventing, innovating and research and development is what they are really good at, it's the way their brains work. You will need to focus their thoughts on the desired goal (it is much easier in their mind is already bent in that direction) and then you just care for and nurture them, whilst they are lost in though (food, water and a little bit of sunshine, not too much). Make thoughtful use of natures genetic bounty :D.

https://smile.amazon.com/Diffe...

Also, you might want to go get:

https://smile.amazon.com/Young...

https://smile.amazon.com/Ogilv...

https://smile.amazon.com/Diffe...

Also, you might want to go get:

https://smile.amazon.com/Young...

https://smile.amazon.com/Ogilv...

https://smile.amazon.com/Diffe...

Also, you might want to go get:

https://smile.amazon.com/Young...

https://smile.amazon.com/Ogilv...

And you type your comment on a what? And stop lights are controlled by what? And your bank account is controlled by what? Need more examples?

We just haven't gotten to the apocalypse part ..... yet.

I didn't say we weren't heading for a computer controlled apocalypse. I just said that I was sick of being told my future was fucked when I was a kid in the 70s. If you want to know how much I agree with you, read my dystopian teen romance, Girl in a Fishbowl.

People continue to use their cell phones while driving because of a limitation of our biology. Here's a quick demonstration.

Imagine right now that you're petting a dog. Can you see (in your mind's eye) the dog's face? Can you "feel" the fur against your fingers and the dog's breath against your face? Can you "hear" the dog panting in your head? Most people can, easily. Your brain is great at simulating these sensations through imagination.

Now, try to imagine agony. Imagine the physical feeling of crashing your car at high speed, because you were on your stupid cell phone. Can you actually experience the agony of your destroyed body in your mind? The answer (for almost everybody) is no. Your brain is very bad at imagining/simulating internal feeling. Our brains are wired that way. So we continue driving with cell phones, even though we know the risks.

These ideas were inspired by the book, "How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain," by Lisa Feldman Barrett, chapter 4, "The Origin of Feeling." https://www.amazon.com/How-Emo...

you just have to use them correctly. Here are the steps I have taken:
1) Installed Waze
2) Bought a proper smart phone mount. I have had success with the rear view mirror mounted type.
3) Enter my destination into Waze every time I am about to go somewhere.

I have noticed the following with this approach:
- I have no motivation to do stupid things like text while driving if I am using my phone for navigation and the cars around me can easily see my phone screen.
- Even if I were to do something stupid on my smartphone, at least I would be looking up, instead of down, and would have a significantly better chance to avoid an accident (plus, other cars would more easily be able to see that I was doing something stupid on my rear view mirror mounted smartphone and could do a better job avoiding me)
- Waze is excellent for getting a heads up that traffic is about to slow down or there is an object on the road that I need to avoid. Unfortunately, they do not seem to have an option for reporting stupid drivers that are using their smartphones wrong while driving.

Anyway, cars are starting to notice me typing this post while driving, so I better end my post here. . . (I kid).

Strugatsky Brothers remain my favorite SciFi authors, and the Inhabited Island is a very good movie based on one of their books. Amazon comments complain about the English subtitles though...

Other than that, the "Independence Day" remains perfectly awesome, even if certain folks should have complained about abuse of a POW by an American Marine sympathetically portrayed in the movie as well as the Earth's celebrations of the genocide just completed by the US. In real life there would've been loud calls for impeachment and war-crimes trial of the President, who authorized it, and the two "heroes", who perpetrated it...

"Alien" series was good, but I don't like horror-movies as a genre...

Too bad, we are yet to see a good adaptation of a Heinlein's or Azimov's book...

Existed, yes. In widespread use, no.

Sure, there were other OSes before it, but the Mac hardly used any of that existing stuff. There was no kernel, no scheduler, no file permissions. There was no command line, no virtual memory, no network stack.

People like to say Apple "stole" the GUI from Xerox, but they didn't get any code from Xerox. They had to write the Toolbox from scratch, and Apple invented a lot of things along the way.

Read Steven Levy's Insanely Great if you want a portrait of just how revolutionary the Mac was. I didn't see it at the time, but in retrospect it's very obvious that, while there were prior existing graphical interfaces, the Mac really paved the way for every GUI sold since.

Good book on US Sub operations Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage https://www.amazon.com/dp/1891...

Actually, Clarke wrote the book and the screenplay simultaneously.

See The Lost Worlds of 2001.

> Avatar came out in 2009, 8 years ago. You could argue there are some derivative ideas in it (as you could argue for any other work of fiction these days), but it was not a remake, not a sequel/prequel, and not a spin-off.

Avatar was a 100% remake of "Dances with Wolves" -- and I'm saying that as someone who bought the BluRay the instant it was available AND The Ultimate Fan's Guide to Avatar

You might enjoy these reads:

* Avatar: A Multi-Dimensional Pop Parable for Ascension
* The Theology of Avatar

What makes Avatar so good is that it is layered -- you have dumb action at the lowest level and interesting perspective/philosophy at the top. It brings the Out-Body-Experience to the forefront of mass consciousness. It hinted that plants were conscious. Lots of interesting questions for the layman to think about.

When people are worried about changes in "many layers of the stack", it's usually a good time to re-architect the system and build microservices. Basically, you get the entire stack in every microservice and you stop worrying about ripple effects; you upgrade or troubleshoot things at a much smaller scale.

I highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Buildin...

It explains how to achieve this, including how to deal with the tough parts like the database layer.

Just watch the Spotify Engineering Culture videos. What you refer to as "ripple effects" they refer to as "blast radius" which I like much better. The benefit of micro services is that if one micro service blows up, the rest continue to run at least enabling partial functionality as opposed to taking the whole system down or putting the entire system into a funky state.

I begged my parents to buy me a KIM-1, so I could build this robot - but they would not be persuaded.

I'm thinking of trying it again (not via my late parents) only this time building a KIM-1 or emulating one with an Arduino