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    KGIII avatar KGIII 10 months ago | link | on: CppCon 2017 Trip Report

    You mentioned missing some talks. Is there any official way to watch videos of all the presentations? It’d be nice to see them all recorded and posted as a playlist on YouTube, perhaps in their official channel. I looked around but can’t find a collection of them.

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      nanxiao avatar nanxiao 10 months ago | link

      I think this is the official youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/CppCon/playlists. It seems the videos for CppCon 2017 are still being uploaded.

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        KGIII avatar KGIII 10 months ago | link

        Thanks. I’ll check again in a week and maybe they will be complete.

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      binarymax avatar binarymax 10 months ago | link | on: What are you reading this week?

      “Guns, Germs, and Steel”. Only read the prologue and intro so far. Will get some good reading time tomorrow night!

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        cmhamill avatar cmhamill 10 months ago | link

        Just a friendly public service announcement from someone trained in anthropology: Diamond is great at suggesting stimulating solutions to grand historical questions, but he’s less great at being correct.

        I’d recommended keeping your skeptical hat firmly on, and to follow up with some of the material from here after you finish.

        Don’t want to spoil a good read, just feel obligated as a once-anthropologist.

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          binarymax avatar binarymax 10 months ago | link

          Thanks for the heads up and the recommendation! I’ve read these kinds of books before and have learned to be cautious…most notoriously from the book “1421”, which has largely been debunked. I try to not let it spoil my experience of a good read though :)

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          KGIII avatar KGIII 10 months ago | link

          I think it is a great book, and easy to read. If you’re not aware of it, there is a documentary that covers the same subjects, shares the name, and involved the author, James Diamond.

          Link, if you’re curious: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475043/

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          KGIII avatar KGIII 10 months ago | link | on: What are you reading this week?

          I am re-reading Battle Cry, by Leon Uris. It is a factionalized account of Uris’ life as a Marine. It goes from his time in boot through his time of island hopping in the Pacific, during WWII. Much of it is historically accurate, the experiences aren’t overly exaggerated, and the picture it paints one of the more realistic tellings of the experiences shared by many Marines.