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‘¿Por qué ‘‘God Delusion’’ de Richard Dawkins es un éxito en Arabia Saudita? [ing] » patheos.com | patheos.com

Descargar libros de Internet es un tema aparentemente peliagudo, pues la palabra ‘piratería’ siempre aparece asomando por el horizonte. De modo que la mejor… » marcos merino | genbeta.com

A collection of awesome Algorithms books which should find a place in every programmer’s book self. Includes language specific books in Java, Python, and JavaScript for easy learning. Algorithms are language agnostic and any programmer worth their salt should be able to convert them to code in their programming language of choice. » Hacker Noon | hackernoon.com

Tal y como hiciéramos en las navidades pasadas, vamos a recomendar unos cuantos libros para que el estío se nos haga más soportable. Abundan las calores y nada mejor que un librazo y algo fresco que echarse al coleto para aguantar las terribles temperaturas que nos quedan por soportar. En HISPASEC nos gustan los libros, mucho, y cuando salimos de vacaciones asaltamos la biblioteca de empresa y sacamos varios volúmenes (algunos incunables) prestados, para devolverlos sanos y salvos (aunque con algo de salitre y tufillo a carbón de chiringuito) de vuelta a la estantería cuando comienza el nuevo curso escolar. ...

Llegan las navidades, aunque comercialmente ya empezaron hace casi un mes, y que mejor que dar ideas para regalar o ser regalado. ¿No sabes que encargarle a los reyes magos? No te preocupes, vamos a comentar los 10 libros de seguridad informática que más leemos en Hispasec. Esos que yacen desgastados en los escritorios de auditoría, malware o el equipo 24x7 de Antifraude, nuestros incansables vigilantes. Leer y hacer son dos palabras claves en la construcción de un buen profesional, sea de la rama que sea. La formación es importante y una de las cosas que siempre ha estado presente en Hispasec es que el personal no le falte lectura, alimento para el cerebro. ...

It’s an accomplishment all the more remarkable given that the story driving the Foundation Trilogy — an epic tale of the fall and rise of future galactic empires —contains virtually none of the usual tropes that are associated with science fiction. The novels span the entire galaxy, but no extraterrestrials make an appearance. It depicts the future history of human society, but it’s neither explicitly a utopian nor dystopian parable. There’s plenty of futuristic technology—from faster-than-light spacecraft to personal force fields—but all of this serves as the background, not the driver, of the plot. In fact, Foundation appears to contradict Asimov’s own definition of science fiction, as a ”branch of literature which deals with the reaction of human beings to changes in science and technology.” In this case, though, Asimov would later explain that he set out to create a genre he called ”social science fiction.” He used the future as a template to explore a pivotal idea that we’ve been asking for centuries: Are there laws of human history as immutable as the laws of physics? ...

For those less familiar with the story and the theories, I thought it might be interesting and useful to have a single thread that lists all of the theories that have arisen given the various questions and unknowns surrounding the Song. There are a lot of brilliant people on these boards and some of them have come up with truly excellent theories, right or wrong, to answer those thoughts we have. ...

In the mid-1980s, O’Reilly (aka O’Reilly & Associates) was selling short books on Unix topics via mail order. These books, known as ”Nutshell Handbooks,” were held together by staples, and had plain brown covers. Over time, Tim O’Reilly decided that he wanted to sell the books through brick-and-mortar bookstores, and hired a graphic designer to create new book covers. Those covers were used for the first two titles that were sold into bookstores, but Tim wasn’t satisfied with the design. ...

Cuenta la anécdota que un día de la primavera de 1855 el físico inglés Michael Faraday daba una conferencia pública en la que mostraba sus pioneros experimentos sobre la electricidad y el magnetismo. Entre la audiencia se encontraba William Gladstone, entonces Ministro de Hacienda y futuro Primer Ministro. Gladstone se levantó y le espetó al investigador: ”todo esto es muy bonito, ¿pero alguna vez le encontraremos una aplicación práctica?”, a lo que Faraday respondió: ”no se preocupe, algún día el gobierno cobrará impuestos sobre esto”. ...

Since the dawn of recorded history, we’ve been using visual depictions to map the Earth, order the heavens, make sense of time, dissect the human body, organize the natural world, perform music, and even concretize abstract concepts like consciousness and love. 100 Diagrams That Changed the World (UK; public library) by investigative journalist and documentarian Scott Christianson chronicles the history of our evolving understanding of the world through humanity’s most groundbreaking sketches, illustrations, and drawings, ranging from cave paintings to The Rosetta Stone to Moses Harris’s color wheel to Tim Berners-Lee’s flowchart for a ”mesh” information management system, the original blueprint for the world wide web. ...