![]() (Alan Kay, in interview with Dr Dobb's Journal, 2012) I think the same is true of most people who write code for money. It has nothing to do with cooperation, the past or the future - it's living in the present. Pop culture is all about identity and feeling like you're participating. ![]() And let me say, the experience of consuming this magnum opus was just as intense as the applications that it aims to elucidate.ĭesigning Data-Intensive Applications opens with a quote from Alan Kay on the culture of programming:Ĭomputing is pop culture. Now, fast forward two years and I just finished reading Kleppman's book over the weekend. ![]() This was my first introduction to Martin Kleppmann who, at the time, was doing research for this book, Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, And Maintainable Systems. Soon after that, my teammate, David Bainbridge, pointed me to an article that completely invalidated the value proposition of Redlock. A couple of years ago, I wrote CFRedLock - a ColdFusion implementation of Redlock, which is a distributed-locking algorithm designed by the team behind Redis. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Its image can be seen in Christmas and greeting cards, children's stories, science fiction and fantasy illustrations, and in mushroom models. In recent time, it is the mushroom that has been adopted as the "prototype" mushroom in western cultures. Yet, the picture on the left, of this mushroom, will probably be familiar to the reader. Muraresku's book features a brilliant Foreword by Graham Hancock, the New York Times bestselling author of America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization.Īmanita muscaria or the Fly Agaric is not a well-known mushroom based on its scientific name or common name. Muraresku in his best selling book, The Immortality Key: The Secret History Of The Religion With No Name, used Robert Gordon Wassons work: Soma The Divine Mushroom Of Immortality as one of his research tools. A section on the post-Vedic history of Soma is contributed by the Sanskrit scholar Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty.īrian C. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his presentation he throws fascinating light on the role of mushrooms in religious ritual. Wasson has aroused considerable attention in learned circles and beyond by advancing and documenting the thesis that Soma was a hallucinogenic mushroom - none other than the Amanita muscaria, the fly-agaric that until recent times was the centre of shamanic rites among the Siberian and Uralic tribesmen. One of the key enigmas of cultural history has been the identity of a sacred plant called Soma in the ancient Rig Veda of India. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Disaster,” for example, addresses the plague: “No school. ![]() Engle’s poems are lyrical yet direct, each describing a single significant event. Through themed verses, Engle emphasizes the stories told by Cervantes’ mother that sparked his imagination the hunger his family experienced after Miguel’s father was sent to debtor’s prison Miguel’s pleasure whenever he was able to attend school and his daydreams about a brave, helpful knight that helped him to anticipate a better future. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (00/09/17)īooklist - *Starred Review* Fifteen brief poems introduce readers to the early life of Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes. Illustrator:ĭownload a Teacher's Guide Accelerated Reader Information: This fictionalized first-person biography in verse of Miguel de Cervantes follows the early years of the child who grows up to pen Don Quixote, the first modern novel. Miguel's brave knight : young Cervantes and his dream of Don Quixote ![]() |