I am a big fan of Head First books. My first love amongst the series was “Design Patterns”. Most of the design pattern books that I have come across outside Head First typically were not that reader friendly. Books with tons and tons of UML diagrams , abstruse use cases etc. Hence I have never ventured out of Head First series. However recently I had a chance to go over " C++ Design Patterns and Derivatives Pricing“by Mark Joshi.

Being busy is seductive .Just because you are going flat out does not mean you are on the right track -  Via: The Eight Irresistible Principles of Fun

“EMPIRICALLY , BOLDNESS WINS”  - Paul Graham

I was teaching about e to a couple of undergrad students , used these facts to make the class more lively. e : In contemporary internet culture, individuals and organizations frequently pay homage to the number e. For example, in the IPO filing for Google, in 2004, rather than a typical round-number amount of money, the company announced its intention to raise $2,718,281,828, which is e billion dollars to the nearest dollar.

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