> Actually, I know why. It's because they have too much money and when you have too much cash, you start splurging without thinking and then one day the chickens come home to roost. This is an incredibly uncharitable…
At first, I thought this was satire, but then the joke never landed. The author cites "Modern Physics, 8th ed." but then ignores everything in the book. This posting is fantasy in the same vein as "we can have personal…
But is it the matter or the teacher--their own approach or lack of ability--that discourages kids from reading? It's not clear which is the case here.
It's almost as if there are beautiful, deep lessons being passed down by people who lived before us. I find the authors argument unpersuasive. I was one of those rebellious teenagers growing up and it was exactly in…
These are some of my favorite books about software because of how they reveal a specific human mind at work. And they're the only ones that I felt effectively taught me about design. Having books list design patterns…
> Actually, I know why. It's because they have too much money and when you have too much cash, you start splurging without thinking and then one day the chickens come home to roost. This is an incredibly uncharitable…
At first, I thought this was satire, but then the joke never landed. The author cites "Modern Physics, 8th ed." but then ignores everything in the book. This posting is fantasy in the same vein as "we can have personal…
But is it the matter or the teacher--their own approach or lack of ability--that discourages kids from reading? It's not clear which is the case here.
It's almost as if there are beautiful, deep lessons being passed down by people who lived before us. I find the authors argument unpersuasive. I was one of those rebellious teenagers growing up and it was exactly in…
These are some of my favorite books about software because of how they reveal a specific human mind at work. And they're the only ones that I felt effectively taught me about design. Having books list design patterns…