Q. What goes "Pieces of seven, pieces of seven"? A. A parity error
Re:I assume it touches on copying
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Altered Carbon
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· Score: 1
I very much enjoyed Altered Carbon - highly recommended.
If you want a good novel around copying, you can't do better than Thomas M. Disch's "Echo Round His Bones". It's old, so you might have to investigate moldering second-hand bookshops for this (or Amazon at 99p - what a travesty).
This is no great advance from the Carry On Doctor films from the 1960's...
Sir Lancelot Spratt (in front of patient and team of quaking junior doctors): "You, what's the bleeding time?"
Junior Doctor: "Ummm, ten past three?"
Sir Lancelot Spratt: "Blithering idiot - it's 3 minutes!"
A mere 33% reduction in 40 years. They call this progress?
Saw presentation earlier this year
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Software Architecture
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I saw David Kane present these concepts at a Software Architecture Conference. In essence, he was reinforcing the importance of architecture, and the need to deal adequately with all the non-technical aspects of implementing an architecture within an organisation. The book is worth a read, mostly for solutions to people-type problems (e.g. how to persuade a development team to adhere to an architecture, using informal relationships to aid communication and shared goals).
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Let's face it, C is just an overblown BCPL - let's get back to basics...
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Professor Challenger was there first.
See "When the World Screamed" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Q. What goes "Pieces of seven, pieces of seven"?
A. A parity error
I very much enjoyed Altered Carbon - highly recommended.
If you want a good novel around copying, you can't do better than Thomas M. Disch's "Echo Round His Bones". It's old, so you might have to investigate moldering second-hand bookshops for this (or Amazon at 99p - what a travesty).
This is no great advance from the Carry On Doctor
films from the 1960's...
Sir Lancelot Spratt (in front of patient and team of quaking junior doctors): "You, what's the bleeding time?"
Junior Doctor: "Ummm, ten past three?"
Sir Lancelot Spratt: "Blithering idiot - it's 3 minutes!"
A mere 33% reduction in 40 years. They call this progress?
I saw David Kane present these concepts at a Software Architecture Conference. In essence, he was reinforcing the importance of architecture, and the need to deal adequately with all the non-technical aspects of implementing an architecture within an organisation. The book is worth a read, mostly for solutions to people-type problems (e.g. how to persuade a development team to adhere to an architecture, using informal relationships to aid communication and shared goals).