JanKoszewski

Overall

This is the first book I've listened to on audiobook that we've read, so I wonder if my perspective is colored by that, in that I can't tell if having someone else's voice in my head for reading it contributed to my overall negative opinion. Either way; I found the writing to be incredibly juvenile and simple and there was nothing about it that really sparked my interest or imagination. There's specifically a point towards the end at which I think 'big bad' John Nike comments on Hack's movement/group saying something along the lines of 'they're just kids protesting/the protests are really super amateur and bad' and at that exact line I thought 'well goddamn, so is this writing'. The initial setting was midly interesting, but as Matt has already pointed out, it felt like a super duper dumbed down version of the world of Snowcrash, without any of the creative or detailed nuance. Big corporations rule everything. Coroporation Bad. Government shitty. Government good, not want people die. Corporation

JanKoszewski

Summer has come and passed
This variant I hope you're last
Wake me up when Corona ends

Like twenty twenty come to pass
Twenty one has gone so fast
Wake me up when Corona ends

Here come holidays again
Vaccine in our arms

JanKoszewski

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JanKoszewski

Chapter 1:

Summary

• nerds are unpopular in high school, not because they don't want to be, but because they care more about being smart and pursuing higher intellectual goals than being popular.

What Stood Out

• school is equivalently a prison, or at the tamest, a holding center for young kids
• teenagers/children are cruel by nature

JanKoszewski

Chapter 1

Summary

• nerds are unpopular in high school, not because they don't want to be, but because they care more about being smart and pursuing higher intellectual goals than being popular.

What Stood Out#

• school is equivalently a prison, or at the tamest, a holding center for young kids
• teenagers/children are cruel by nature

JanKoszewski

The waterfall software development lifecycle in the context of government contracts has on the whole six distinct phases after the contract has been won by or awarded to a company.  The first phase is the development of requirements; analysts from the company work directly with the client to outline and define the functionality of the piece of software that the client would like to use.  The next phase is the design of the project.  The software company's developers, analysts, and project managers work together to define the project’s scope of work and set out a timeline for implementation.  Normal contract progression is contingent upon the client formally approving to both the scope and timeline, either set forth in separate individual documents or in one overarching “design document”, which acts as a project guideline.  The third phase is the implementation of the project, where the code for the project is written and the software is actually created.  The fourth phase is generally defined as implementatio