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Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its โฆ
DynamoDB is a highly available, infinitely scalable NoSQL database offering from AWS. It provides predictable โฆ
As Amazon scaled up their operations, they couldnโt use costly operations like joins because they were too slow and resource-intensive.
Werner shared that 70% of their database operations operated on a single record, and another 20% would return multiple rows but would use only a single table. Thus, over 90% of all queries did not use joins!
— The DynamoDB Book by Alex DeBrie (Page 24)
This is the thing about SQL; you contort your data into this awkward shape all so you can join it in lots of ways, but you don't end up needing to do that in reality.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ started reading The DynamoDB Book by Alex DeBrie
The DynamoDB Book by Alex DeBrie
DynamoDB is a highly available, infinitely scalable NoSQL database offering from AWS. It provides predictable single-digit millisecond latency no matter โฆ
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage โฆ
The Secret Sharer
4 stars
Content warning A hard read but ...
I was so relieved it had a happy ending.
The Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer by Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad, about a voyage up the Congo River into โฆ
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
Nice Island, Shitty Kids
4 stars
I went into this book with a pretty correct idea about what it would be about. It reminded me of every job I've ever had; a bunch of childish boys trying to decide who's in charge.
What surprised me is that it was actually a nice little tropical vacation of sorts. I should have read it in wintertime.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ finished reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
That got better toward the end, once I got used to the prose and all the beachy island visual descriptions. I kinda hated all the characters, so it wasn't so bad watching them learn their lessons. I sort of wish there had been more natural danger; some predator, some illness, one or two of them dying from natural causes maybe. I knew what I was getting into though--social strife--and there was a lot of that.
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
As someone who suffers from social anxiety, this book is a horror story
"I have made a decision," Major Fritch say. "For the first time in my life, I have found a man that truly understands me, an I am not going to let him go. For nearly four years, Grurck an I have lived happily in this land, an I have decided to stay here with him. We will go off in the jungle an make a new life for ourselfs, an raise a family an live happily ever after."
"But this man is a cannibal," one of the fellers say.
"Eat your heart out, buster," says Major Fritch, an she an Grurck get out of the canoe an start back into the jungle again, han in han.
— Forrest Gump by Winston Groom (Page 152)
Yeah, that's a cunnilingus joke in Forrest Gump. A racist one at that!
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ started reading Man's Search for Himself by Rollo May
I asked AI for a good book to read while having a midlife crisis
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ started reading Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prizeโwinning British author William Golding. โฆ
Growing up in Arkansas they never made us read this, so I guess I have some catching up to do.
Movie's better
3 stars
I enjoyed this book; it's funny like the movie is. There was a lot of stories that didn't make it into the screenplay, but none of it was any good. This is one case where the movie really is better than the book.
๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฅ๐๐๐ด๐ป๐บ๐ธ finished reading Forrest Gump by Winston Groom
Well, I finished it, but I was really skimming towards the end. Still, it held my attention a lot better than most books, probably because of how random and fast paced it was.
This is getting tedious; no sooner has Forrest lost his wrestling career (which he was very good at) than he is discovered by a chess champion, who takes him to LA where he is discovered by a film director.
The moral of the film seemed to be "follow your heart" but the moral of the book seems to be "hope that some kind stranger sees your potential and takes care of you"