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Russ’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Russ’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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I read this book because McAllister is a character in the TV series The Gilded Age, and the book itself plays a part in the plot. This book is certainly a mixed blessing. On the positive side, the writing is remarkably clear for a book that was publis ...more |
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| This is one of the better introductions to Relativity that I've come across. Goes beyond the typical "Imagine you standing on a railroad platform and a train traveling at 0.99c comes by" explanation to talk about the deeper implications of relativity ...more | |
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This books covers the usual territory of what the dinosaurs are, how we know about them, what we know about them and the prospects for creating a modern day (and I'm not making this up) chickenosaursus. Fun book. ...more |
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Seeing and Believing is about how the telescope changed astronomy not once, but many times: Each new technical development in telescopes led to a new vision of how the Universe is put together. I liked the way Panek packages his tale, each new discove ...more |
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I wish there were more writers like Mary Roach out there (in fact I wish I was one of them). A typical Roach book is a light-hearted romp through some scientific or technical subject, with just enough fun to keep the science interesting. In typical Ro ...more |
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| Newton's Gift is a pretty standard biography of everyone's favorite physicist. Weaving in and out of Newton's scientific life with what passed for his personal life, Berlinski tries -- and mostly succeeds -- in pulling together a picture of the great ...more | |
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| A fascinating look at a era where having an entire megabyte of RAM was something to brag about. | |
“Because Ruby enables you to say more interesting things in each line of code, you end up with less code.”
― [Design Patterns in Ruby] [By: Olsen, Russ] [December, 2007]
― [Design Patterns in Ruby] [By: Olsen, Russ] [December, 2007]
“Let’s face it: Despite shelves full of books on software architecture, enough UML diagrams to fill an art museum, and design meetings that seem to last longer than the pyramids, building software mostly comes down to writing one method after another.”
― Eloquent Ruby
― Eloquent Ruby
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