Sign in with Facebook
Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Mark Seemann’s Followers (491)
1,241 books
|
17 friends
89 books
|
53 friends
1,082 books
|
151 friends
340 books
|
2 friends
57 books
|
3 friends
159 books
|
77 friends
2,356 books
|
3,292 friends
914 books
|
36 friends
More friends…
Mark Seemann
Goodreads Author
Born
in Copenhagen, Denmark
Website
Twitter
Member Since
October 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/ploeh
|
Dependency Injection in .NET
—
published
2011
—
14 editions
|
|
|
Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering (Robert C. Martin Series)
|
|
|
Robert C. Martin
by |
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Mark’s Recent Updates
|
Mark Seemann
is on page 90 of 288 of The Lottery and Other Dark Tales
|
|
|
Mark Seemann
is on page 236 of 350 of Exhalation
|
|
|
Mark Seemann
rated a book liked it
|
|
Jeg er nok for dum eller udannet til at forstå, hvorfor denne bog er så godt anmeldt, men den var da meget underfundig, og hurtigt læst. Jeg må indrømme, at jeg grundlæggende ikke forstår, hvad jeg skal med sætninger som"Der kom hun gående med en and...more |
|
|
Mark Seemann
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| Considering the popularity of the the Culture book series, I've had trouble understanding the hoopla. Perhaps it was a mistake starting in the middle of the series, even though the books are, as I understand it, all stand-alone works. My review of Th ...more | |
|
Mark Seemann
rated a book really liked it
|
|
| After a few so-so Agatha Christie novels, I was happy to read another one that was enjoyable and orderly. While I'd narrowed down my list of suspects to two or three persons well in advance of the final reveal, and even though one of my guesses was, ...more | |
|
Mark Seemann
rated a book really liked it
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI
by Eliezer Yudkowsky (Goodreads Author) |
|
| Once you know that the 'it' in the title is artificial superintelligence (ASI), then the title already makes the central point. The current generation of so-called artificial intelligences (really, large language models) are 'grown' rather than engin ...more | |
|
Mark Seemann
rated a book liked it
|
|
|
Nu bliver det lidt mere alvorligt. Jeg vidste ikke at mumitroldens far var hittebarn og vokset op på plejehjem. Barndommen var vist ikke helt lykkelig, forstås. Her og der skinner mørket igennem til en verden, der på overfladen synes ubekymret. Jeg er ...more |
|
|
Mark Seemann
rated a book it was ok
|
|
| When I was a boy of perhaps ten, my father brought me a Danish translation of The Martian Chronicles that he'd picked up at a garage sale somewhere. I liked the book, and read it more than once during my adolescence. Later, I borrowed a Danish transl ...more | |
“Providing technical expertise includes not confusing stakeholders with details they can’t make sense of or use.”
― Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
― Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
“The more you produce, the more you have to read. Automated code generation only makes matters worse. As Martin Fowler writes about low code quality: “Even small changes require programmers to understand large areas of code, code that’s difficult to understand.” [32] Code that’s difficult to understand slows you down. On the other hand, every minute you invest in making the code easier to understand pays itself back tenfold.”
― Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
― Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
“3.2 Why Programming Is Difficult What makes software development so hard? There’s more than one reason. One is, as discussed in section 1.1, that we’re using the wrong metaphors. That clouds our thinking, but that’s not the only reason. Another problem is that a computer is quantitatively different from a brain. Yes, that’s another problematic metaphor”
― Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
― Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering
“A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.”
― The Honourable Schoolboy
― The Honourable Schoolboy
“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”
―
―
“It is only when our appointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception.”
― The Secret Agent
― The Secret Agent
Goodreads Librarians Group
— 309905 members
— last activity 1 minute ago
Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
