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Programming on Purpose - Essays on Software Design, by P.J Plauger

This is probably the best (and most effortul) way to aquire the knowledge initialy. I did it a lot back in school, then few months upto a year later I would forget most of the mate…

I'm already rereading the most valuable books and it does help to retain their knowledge. I guess doing spaced repetition every x time would help even more. I feel that rereading a…

I am. About 70% are technical books related to my job (SWE) and the rest are combination of textbooks and popular science in fields that I find very interesting. If for some reason…

I sometimes wonder if reading all these books is worth it, given I seem to remember so little from them. Other than rereading what do you do to retain knowledge from books you valu…

Of course you are.

Exactly.

How can you prove something about yourself before first proving your existence? I know it sounds outlandish but it does point the gap in your proof.

I think consciousness is one of those things that is not defined well enough for us to understand it. Until there is a breakthrough in the understanding of consciousness itself the…

You can't prove even that. If you examine it closely, the argumnent only proves that "it" thinks. "It" is not necessarily an "I", for what restricts the thinking to an I (i.e a par…

I used it few times, it's as good as the others. I don't think there ever will be a silver bullet, what works for some companies won't work for others. The real issues are people i…

Release it! by Michael Nygard has lots of good info on design issues related to production systems and operations/devops of such systems.

I highly recommend "The Secrets of Consulting" by Gerald Weinberg.

On the project and management level read Rapid Development by Steve McConnell. On the detailed technical level read Code Complete by same author. Then read some blog posts on agile…

Don't you mind having 5000+ LOC model? Methods being redefined because the class is huge and the developer didn't notice the existing method?

Direct your learning by what you need for your work. You can watch videos on the frameworks and tools you're using, read blog posts on issues you might have etc. After you have som…

Ruby is great, Rails is good enough. The main issue with Rails (it's the same with other frameworks) is that it discourages from doing proper design. The only design decision you m…

Prepare a few questions for each trait you care about and then ask all candidates the same (or sample of) questions. Grade the candidate on each trait based on how well they answer…

Growing Object Oriented Software Guided by Tests. So far I didn't learn anything from it, and it's hard to read more than ~10 pages without falling a sleep. Next on my list are Sof…

What about cases where "good enough" is not enough? code that handles money comes to mind.

I'm interested to know what methods software developers and testers are using in practice. How confident are you in your tests?

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, A Guide to Rational Living by Albert Ellis, Feeling Good by David Burns - changed the way I see and cope with things and people that used to "cause"…

I read the first one, "essays on software design".

Programming on Purpose - best book I read on software design so far. Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst - explaing human behavior from many points of view, well wr…