Here Comes Everybody - Book Review

Just finished Clay Shirky’s Here Comes Everybody, which I think it’s a very interesting book. The author shared his insights on how the Internet effectively gathers the power of people, and how it is rapidly reshaping the society today. Book starts with a story on how Internet helps a lady to regain her lost cellphone with the assistance and pressure from people online, and expands discussion to what why it could happen, and what we should do about it. The world is smaller and people are closer than ever before, for better or worse, because of technologies. In this book, the author carefully analyzed ways Internet could affect our lives, what it means to the world.

I listed several observations the authors provided in this book, which I find very interesting.

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Reading Summary 2015-11

Compilers

Directed graph traversal, orderings and applications to data-flow analysis

On the graph traversal and their efficiency.

  • Pre-order depth-first-search
  • Reverse post-order depth-first-search

This could be a very helpful reference when designing data-flow analysis on programs.

Programming

Semantic Version

How to use version numbers in a sensible way: the MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH format. And I quote:

  1. MAJOR version when you make incompatible API changes.
  2. MINOR version when you add functionality in a backwards-compatible manner.
  3. PATCH version when you make backwards-compatible bug fixes.

Internet

I’m a Privacy Advocate, but I Still Use Windows 10 and Google Now

Your personal data is the fuel to power the Internet today, and how should we face it.