Wildly inventive, brilliantly conceived, The System of the World is the final volume in Neal Stephenson's hugely ambitious and compelling saga.
... Slashdot is like watching an unfolding drama. “You just don't want to miss an episode. And if you do, you're afraid you can't follow something after all. So [on Slashdot] you want to see how news stories develop and what happened—what ...
... Slashdot, as happened Saturday. The effect of Slashdot items that link to wiki pages is fairly familiar on Wikipedia. A flurry of new edits is a certainty, quite a bit of which will be vandalism, and the article must be reverted ...
From musician, singer-songwriter, and internet superstar JONATHAN COULTON comes the graphic novel accompaniment (in square-bound, 10" x 10" format) to his new concept album, SOLID STATE.
... happened in rural Michigan rather than in a flourishing center of technology like Silicon Valley. Katz felt that it was a com- munity born of necessity. In Silicon Valley, technical ... happen . No. The Slashdot Effect 377 The Slashdot ...
... What happens is that if they know you're in the conversation , people get respect- ful . They may still criticise ... Slashdot.org , a popular news site for technology , had picked up the story and posted it with the title ' Google De - ...
In this book, Michael Feathers offers start-to-finish strategies for working more effectively with large, untested legacy code bases.
... Slashdot in which this has indeed happened and people had to stop their participation in the open-source project and have their code removed from it. This is bad for the project, is very bad for the individual, and gives the company a ...
“Space opera the way it ought to be [...] Bujold and Weber, bend the knee; interstellar adventure has a new king, and his name is Walter Jon Williams.” -- George R.R. Martin The first book in the completed Dread Empire's Fall trilogy, ...
Accidental Empires is the trenchant, vastly readable history of that industry, focusing as much on the astoundingly odd personalities at its core--Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mitch Kapor, etc. and the hacker culture they spawned as it does on ...