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March 2014 Reading
A late 90s reading of Wired, examining the sexist and racist agenda of the magazine and the larger digital elite for whom Wired became a bible. Despite the book's age, its critique of Wire …
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February 2013 Reading
Less jargony and more in-depth than Lean UX, Lowdermilk covers usability, using design principles and working closely with your users to make things that work for them. 2014-02-21 by Charlie Harvey_H_Lean UX, by Jeff …
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January 2014 Reading
Baffling guide to a paralell but familiar world, told through surrealistic short passages that are sort of semi-coherent. It is like the world that you experience in a half dream. There’s no obvious narrative; it reads …
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2013: My favourite books and reading stats
Last year I did a rundown of the books I read in 2012, mostly as I wanted to play with infogr.am. But also, let’s face it, because my propensity to navel-gaze craves occasional indulgence. This year I repeat the experiment in a yearly roundup of my reading habits… _H_Reading stats …
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2014 Reading
Here’s all the books that I read in 2014, by month. On the each month’s page there’s quick review or synopsis of each book that I read in that month. …
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December 2013 reading
When I was first learning Java there was a big trend towards using design patterns. The extreme edge of that trend was critiqued wonderfully by Mark Jason Dominus in Why Design Patterns Aren …
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November 2013 Reading
I grabbed the ebook of astounding stories on a bit of a whim. But I have enjoyed it. Its proper boys own stuff, and reminded me of the sort of books that one used to find in my grandparents house. Hugely entertaining but …
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October 2013 Reading
The second of a couple of books I am reading about stats and the R language to support the Coursera I’m doing at the moment. In contrast to Navarros book which was a free PDF, I paid for this one. I felt that it read very much lik …
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September 2013 Reading
Old fashioned but passionate rant against the idiocy of (especially Christian) religion and the enormous harm it has done. The rhetoric is quite grating and some of the arguments put forward are strawmannish, but still an enjoyable re …
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August 2013 Reading
Read it on my reading day and spoke more about it in the tech briefing I wrote up about that. It’s fine, but the material in my copy is rather out of date. It was right in its prediction that a lot would change after IE8. It d …
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