![]() ![]() To be fair to Will, though, anyone would feel small standing next to Tiny Cooper. Tiny is huge, confident, loud, clever, and talented, all things that Will isn't. So while Tiny and Will have been friends since fifth grade, it isn't as great as you might imagine. Yes, Tiny is physically large, but he also has a huge personality-he's large in every way. Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world's gayest person who is really, really large. ![]() Will pretty much sums up his best friend with this quote: Tiny Cooper is the man between our Will Graysons-best friend to Will and first boyfriend to will, Tiny's kind of at the center of everything. ![]()
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Edward Snowden, the man who risked everything to expose the US government’s system of mass surveillance, reveals for the first time the story of his life, including how he helped to build that system and what motivated him to try to bring it down. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But it has a sense of universality which becomes clearer as the mystery unfolds. At the outset, it might seem to be an exotic Turkish novel, when there are instances of the presence of jinns - a white baby that the protagonist sees whenever she is in trouble. It becomes a point due to which even the protagonist decides to shed her own hesitations about life. The shape of life was a circle, and every point on that circle was at an equal distance from the centre-whether one called that God or something else altogether.” “Roles shifted, words never stayed still. By the end of the book she etches the idea of religion beautifully: Rather, it talks of power which is an implicit attribute of religion. 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These chapters are fascinating from a historical perspective as well, with the creation of programming tools like assemblers, interactive debuggers, and even the first videogame (Steve Russell's ![]() The hacker ethic is a central theme in the book and the author relates and compares subsequent events to those values. From a cultural perspective, this is probably the most important chapter as it explains the origin ofĪnd the unique social context that lead to it. The hacker culture has its roots at MIT, a natural start for Levy's story. The result is a classic book that is of significant importance even today. Through the whole journey Steven Levy lets us step into the great minds of the early hackers, understand their motivations and why programming is so fascinating. ![]() ![]() From a time when hacking was truly underground and a single computer took up an entire room, over the microprocessor revolution, to the booming videogame industry of the eighties. Hackers is the story of the early days of computers. ![]() Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy ![]() ![]() ![]() Another popular version has it written in 1883, immediately upon Święcicki's return from exile in Siberia. To distinguish between the two, it is often called "Warszawianka 1905 roku" ("Warszawianka of 1905"), after the song became the anthem of worker protests during the Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland (1905–1907), when 30 workers were shot during the May Day demonstrations in Warsaw in 1905.Īccording to one version, Wacław Święcicki wrote the song in 1879 while serving a sentence in the Tenth Pavilion of the Warsaw Citadel for socialist activity. The Polish title, a deliberate reference to the earlier song by the same title, could be translated as either The Varsovian, The Song of Warsaw (as in the Leon Lishner version ) or "the lady of Warsaw". Whirlwinds of Danger (original Polish title: Warszawianka) is a Polish socialist revolutionary song written some time between 18. ![]() ![]() ![]() Gladwell bifurcates split-second decisions, and the series of scientific and anecdotal evidence he presents, into positive and negative outcomes. Gladwell explicates this process through a series of narratives ranging from the historical to the psychological and sociological, from medicine to law enforcement, and academia to salesmanship. This is precisely Gladwell's prerogative: to unlock the door that he refers to as the adaptive unconscious, and prime people to think about how exactly they arrive at split-second decisions. However this ability takes time to develop, and one of the most peculiar and frustrating things about it works is that people are often unable to explain how they came to make such decisions. He argues that every person has the ability to fine-tune their ability to “thin-slice”, or take a little bit of information in a small amount of time, and make critical decisions. Gladwell considers how and why some people are able to make such decisions with success, and others are unable to do so. Malcolm Gladwell's 2005 non-fiction book Blink is about how people use their adaptive unconscious – the part of the brain that operates rapidly based upon little information – to make important decisions. ![]() |