I received a complimentary copy of a The Object Caml Programming Language in the mail while my journal was suspended. I received it as a gift because I was one of the reviewers.

I think it's a fairly well done book. And a nicer introduction than many out there, and it goes well beyond being an introduction in later chapters.

OCaml is a language ( Read more... )

I've been reading Accelerando, though I bought my copy from Amazon instead of reading the online version. :-) Partly this is because this book is an important part of corporate culture at the small startup I'm now working at.

It is a very strange book. I've read bits and pieces of it before as short stories. It's very disconnected and random in ( Read more... )

I finished the book I talked about before, "The Success of Open Source", and I'm slightly less enthused with the book than I was before, though I still think it is an excellent book.

It's partly that the book is out-of-date. The author talks about companies that are now largely commercial failures. The author also talks about companies that are ( Read more... )

I've been reading this excellent book called "The Success of Open Source". It's an attempt to dissect why Open Source development seems to work, despite that fact that it seems like an economic anomaly.

The author had an really interesting insight. He's been examining why each individual finds it beneficial to contribute. He's gone through a ( Read more... )

I got two computer books today:

1. C++ Template Metaprogramming
2. Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment (second edition)

The first is everything I expected, and it's a really excellent book. It's one of those books that either leave people shaking their heads, wondering why on earth anybody in their right mind would even think of using C++, or ( Read more... )

I've been reading "The Emperor's New Mind" and have some more thoughts on it.
Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem implies that there are truth's that are out of the reach of an algorithmic intelligence

I consider this argument to be weak. Basically, he's stating that there are things that we know are true who's truth we cannot have arrived at by ( Read more... )

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