Review:Jonathan lays out a clear road map for those who want to become self employed. The book is somewhat long winded and, from my point of view, could use some editing. On balance, however, it achieved its objectives. Read more

Review:This book was well writen and well explained, and I loved Stephenson's analogies, but his lust for unix based operating systems and his lack of knowledge of others (mainly BeOS) disapointed me. The book would have been more properly titled as "Unix is god, the rest, well they are there." because that was his overall outlook of operating systems from my perspective.
Finally, I would recomend this book to anyone whole is a user of multiple OSes and enjoys the topic of OSes. [Recomended] Read more

Review:Should be required reading for anyone talking or thinking about Big Data and how it's used. This will be the first of many to make more sense of it than has been to date. It's fine to say don't start into big data efforts just for the sake of mountains of data, but have an objective, but most people haven't a clue how to begin to figure out what those objectives might be. This will help, but the future holds more ideas I'm sure. Still is nods toward the power and value of big data analyses that ... Read more