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Will Sargent

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Paolo Bacigalupi: The Windup Girl (2009, Nightshade Books) 4 stars

What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said …

Review of 'The Windup Girl' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

This is a book that says "what if everything changes because nothing changes?" There's no oil. There's very little ecosystem left. There's been a couple of plagues. And clean food -- calories -- is so hard to come by that when a new fruit shows up in the Thai marketplaces, it's immediate cause for interest by the corporate research who suspects that the Thai have a hidden seedbank and a top ranked geneticist to bring species back from the dead. And they want to own those species.



reviewed Clean Code by Robert C. Martin (Robert C. Martin)

Robert C. Martin: Clean Code (2008, Prentice Hall) 4 stars

4ème de couverture

Si un code sale peut fonctionner, il peut également compromettre la pérennité …

Review of 'Clean Code' on 'Storygraph'

4 stars

It's a good book, but if you've read Code Complete or Code Craft, there's little in this book that is absolutely new. I did find the digs at the ActiveRecord "mixing business logic with DTOs" interesting... apparently Uncle Bob differs from Marten Fowler on this, as Fowler's explicitly complained about people making their domain objects "anemic."