> Other animal behavior also evokes TCP flow control, with its characteristic sawtooth. Squirrels and pigeons going after human food scraps will creep forward a

> Other animal behavior also evokes TCP flow control, with its characteristic sawtooth. Squirrels and pigeons going after human food scraps will creep forward a step at a time, occasionally leap back, then steadily creep forward again. > Caching gives us the language to understand what’s happening. We say “brain fart” when we should really say “cache miss”. Sorry, but how can anyone find this book insightful? Doesn't it sound dumb to anyone else? Seems as if the author made list of bunch of algorithms and filled up hundreds of pages with lazy analogies. Having read a bunch of similar books (classic self-help crap), I must say that these books are a giant waste of time. It reminds me of mental models. Reading about mental models isn't going to magically make you smarter, you'll likely develop on your own from experience. But hey, if it helps you, awesome. Just giving my two cents as a person who has largely become disillusioned with books like these.