dirdival

dirdival

I would really like to know, what IT is and where is it going? Not so young Polish developer writes about his reflections and fears.

Summary of reading - January 2018

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It’s hard to find time to write something interesting and valuable about IT, but there is no excuses to practice writing in English. Since a few weeks I’m focused on gathering data about new technologies – I decided to buy and mount from scratch new desktop. The current one has almost 10 years and surprisedly I can say that for ordinary use like codding, browsing internet it’s enough. I suppose that I will write more about new things which I learnt about hardware and set up in near future.

To leave some mark that I’m still alive I share with you my summary of reading – January 2018:

  • The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day by David J. Hand (ISBN 978-83-280-1733-7) – If you are interested improbability, you are curious why impossible things happens, that book is for you. First part of the book is full of interesting stories, describes paradoxes like Birthday problem. Seconds part try to prove that The law of truly large numbers works.

  • The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye by David Lagercrantz (ISBN 978-83-8015-385-1) – I’ve read all previous books from Millennium series and I couldn’t miss this one. I looked forward to reading again about Lisbeth Salander. It’s not the best book from whole series but I was enjoyed. BTW, the first book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson definitely is the best one.

  • Retoryka - Sztuka przekonywania by Cornelia Dietrich (ISBN 978-83-61059-13-4) – My first meet with book about rhetoric. Without no doubt it’s not the book which I looked for. Too short, small examples, it looks like a bachelor paper.

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