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I read at work, but I do try to keep it related to technologies and topics that would help me to do my job.

I subscribe to Safari Books Online, so I normally do most of the reading through there.

Depending upon the amount of downtime I have I may read something not directly related, or more about general CS than the work tech stack. But I generally try not to read about tech I may just be using for a hobby project.

A really interesting biography which shows this is far from a new problem is Boyd: The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War.

I read it a few months ago. Highly recommended.

yeah, I would agree with this. You may not have the servers locally, but there is still a lot of admin stuff to do, and Azure doesn't configure itself.

Wow. I read a biography on Hemingway a while ago and don't remember it talking about any of this.

From the text referenced in Facebook's response as cited by the article:

To begin using the Facebook website, a consumer first creates a Facebook account. The consumer can then add other Facebook consumers as "friends" and by accumulating Facebook friends, the consumer builds a social network on the Facebook website.

The following statement in the article:

So Facebook is denying it's a destination that allows consumers to sign-up, add their friends, and build a social network.

Anything is possible I guess.

It's amazing what medicine can and cannot do. While it's great to think that medicine and diet and exercise arranged in some unique fashion will place Schizophrenia/Bipolar into remission, there are an incredible number of variables in play in mental health and physical health overall, and they seem to vary in everyone.

So I take most of these articles with a huge grain of salt. Perhaps this is a nudge in the right direction, and maybe it will encourage further research into diet and mental illness. Personally I would support this as I'm far from enthusiastic concerning psych meds in general, but unfortunately they're the best we have it seems.

And yes, if you have had manic episodes, taking an anti-depressant should be done with care. Actually I would suggest doing everything possible and would recommend using any psych medication as a last resort for any health related situation.

I'm inclined to agree. That being said, having been prescribed zyprexa for type 1 bipolar, anything that leads treatment away from the standard trope of what in my opinion is nothing other than a strong off-label tranquilizer for these symptoms is a positive thing in some regard.

I agree that this entire thing has been disturbing. Leaving behind a web server after you perform an uninstall by Zoom is unbelievable in my opinion. It's not even the fact that there was a vulnerability that makes me angry, it's the idea that you say uninstall, and it knowingly leaves a web server running on your machine.

Then, Apple, can push a silent update to simply kill software on your machine which as I understand it wasn't installed through the app store.

In this case I may be happy that it's no longer running, but the whole thing is disturbing. Looking at the Security & Privacy settings on my MacBook, I see nothing about running any anti-virus or anti-malware. The closest setting I can see that might be this is under software update, where I have the option to install automatically the system data files and security updates.

It's kind of a stretch for me to consider the ability to kill some software Apple might construe as malware at anytime the same thing as a "security update". To me, a security update would patch Apple code which had a vulnerability.

Where do I tell Apple to whitelist software in the future they might not like which I've chosen to install not going through the App Store?

It's actually news to me that I'm running Anti-X on my Mac, I didn't think I was.

Considering the fact that I have to learn new places for all the buttons every time Microsoft gets bored and changes things for the "better" I'm really disappointed.

System76 is looking better and better.

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War

I'm about 2/3's of the way through and its a great read about the guy who revolutionized fighter pilot tactics and made a number of other big contributions.

There is a good book I read about this years ago (pre-9/11) called The Culture of Fear by Barry Glassner. It went in depth into the different things that people are afraid of and how they are covered in the media vs what you are actually likely to die from. Definitely made me think a little differently about what I saw on the news for good or bad.

I would also buy it.

I remember sitting in a meeting with the team discussing how we regularly failed to meet the our estimates and how this was bad.

I made exactly this suggestion and was laughed out of the room.

Granted this was for large and small estimates, but I still don't think it's the worst idea.

Software Transactional Memory like Clojure has

I think that this is great for the most part. I think that in process caching in C# can be tricky, especially dealing with concurrency because even through the access to the backing dictionary for creating and retrieving is safe (assuming the function delegate for creating the object doesn't do something interesting), you are returned a reference to an object in memory.

At this point if you have multiple threads doing stuff with that object you can obviously run into issues.

Anyway concurrency is hard. I keep thinking of writing a cache that uses something like https://github.com/ReubenBond/DeepCopy to return a copy of the object.

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QBASIC for Dummies

Ha, good point. I'd love to buys some ... I think I have a dollar or two...

I'm guessing its probably prohibited, but maybe you can sell the credits.

Yeah, I'm learning Python now and was working through the book Learning Python which covers Python 2 and 3 there are plenty of differences to trip you up.

I think there is evidence that in some cases targeted advertising works fairly well. In the book, "The Power of Habit," for instance, it goes into the Target story about their marketing to expecting mothers. This for instance is an opportunity for marketers and businesses to acquire new customers at a point in their life when they're likely to shop somewhere else and become regular customers.

They were able to do this by analyzing purchasing patterns and according to the book were fairly successful.

I'd imagine that online tracking when combined with other sources of data provide a lot of insight into what customers are looking for and in some cases can provide a big payoff.