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+title = "Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture -  Stephen H. Segal, N.K. Jemisin, Eric San Juan, Genevieve Valentine, Zaki Hasan"
+date = 2020-03-10
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["books", "reviews", "fun", "stephen h segal", "n k jemisin", "eric san juan", "genevieve valentine", "zaki hasan"]
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10418415-geek-wisdom):
+Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our
+Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the town. Clearly, geeks know
+something about life in the 21st century that other folks don’t—something we
+all can learn from. Geek Wisdom takes as gospel some 200 of the most powerful
+and oft-cited quotes from movies (“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”),
+television (“Now we know—and knowing is half the battle”), literature (“All
+that is gold does not glitter”), games, science, the Internet, and more. Now
+these beloved pearls of modern-day culture have been painstakingly interpreted
+by a diverse team of hardcore nerds with their imaginations turned up to 11.
+Yes, this collection of mini-essays is by, for, and about geeks—but it’s just
+so surprisingly profound, the rest of us would have to be dorks not to read
+it. So say we all.
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+{{ stars(stars=1) }}
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+Although it is getting common in my reviews, I have to say this again: I have
+no idea what's the target of this book.
+
+Everything starts with a quote: A scientist, a meme, a movie quote, a game
+character, take your "geek" pick". Then, it is followed by a commentary about
+the quote. And, finally, some piece of trivia/explanation about the quote
+itself.
+
+The content of the book, then, is the commentary about the quotes.
+
+And that's where my confusion comes.
+
+Some explanations seem targeted to other geeks: "You see, So-And-So says this,
+so we geek should be careful about that". Some others seem targeted to
+non-geeks: "Geeks love So-And-So, because they said that and geeks related to
+it". So, it's a book to geeks or to non-geeks?
+
+No only that, but some explanations are really dense, like the author (one of
+them) is trying to push a point in a short form and throwing jumping stones
+really fast, to the point that when you reach the end of the paragraph, you
+have no idea how it started.
+
+And some are borderline insane: "Transformers! Transform and roll out!" is
+related to Martin Luther King "Change does not roll in on the wheels of
+inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle." And with that all I can
+think is "Really? Like, really really?!?"
+
+In the end, it is just a book about geeky quotes and a lot of filler.

content/reviews/books/how-to-survive-a-horror-movie.md

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+title = "How To Survive A Horror Movie - Seth Grahame-Smith"
+date = 2020-03-06
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+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["books", "reviews", "movies", "horror", "seth grahame-smith"]
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+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/293217.How_to_Survive_a_Horror_Movie):
+From ghosts, vampires, and zombies to serial killers, cannibalistic
+hillbillies, and haunted Japanese videocassettes, How to Survive a Horror
+Movie shows how to defeat every obstacle found in scary films.
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+{{ stars(stars=2) }}
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+Honestly, I'm not sure who this book is targeted at.
+
+At first, I thought it would examine all the clichés on horror movies that
+made the hero survive everything till the end. But the narration style
+sometimes puts you as just someone living in the same world, sometimes it puts
+you as the protagonist, sometimes you can engineer your way around every
+problem, sometimes you have to force the screenwriter to do something (so you
+don't actually _do_ whatever you need to do, you force someone else to make
+you do something), sometimes you force the "movie" to move faster without the
+screenwriter support... It is a huge hodgepodge of ways, and no consistency
+between them.
+
+To be fair, I'm not a fan of horror movies (the book came from a Humble Bundle
+pack) so I may appear a bit hard on the author, but still...

content/reviews/books/microservices-antipatterns-and-pitfalls.md

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+title = " Microservices AntiPatterns and Pitfalls - Mark Richards"
+date = 2020-03-08
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+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["books", "reviews", "microservices", "antipatterns", "pitfalls", "mark richards"]
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+
+[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31291348-microservices-antipatterns-and-pitfalls):
+Remember when service-oriented architecture (SOA) was all the rage? Companies
+jumped in before fully understanding SOA’s advantages and disadvantages, and
+struggled to make this complex architecture work. Today, we’re poised to
+repeat this same experience with microservices—only this time we’re prepared.
+With this concise ebook, author Mark Richards walks you through the ten most
+common microservice anti-patterns and pitfalls, and provides solutions for
+avoiding them.
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+{{ stars(stars=4) }}
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+Not a book per se, but a paper about the tendencies that lead to microservices
+to fail. If this was a book, I think I'd give it less stars, but since it is
+just a short paper, it feels alright -- for a book, longer content and how to
+implement the corrects would be nicer.
+
+In the end, for people starting with microservices, it is a good pointer for
+"do not do that"; for people working with microservices for awhile, it's quite
+a "I did that already" checklist.