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Chain-Gang All-Stars

by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (Goodreads Author)

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Dec 15, 2025 08:37AM

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C# Concurrency: Asynchronous and multithreaded programming

by Nir Dobovizki

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James’s Quotes

“years and still be surprised at what the April rains uncovered, what came blooming up from the dry and ancient earth.”
― Joe Wilkins, The Entire Sky: A Novel

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“the road to programming hell is paved with global variables,”
― Steve McConnell, Code Complete

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, voter, voting

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“Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.”
― James Surowiecki

tags: confidence, procrastination, self-confidence, success

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