The Stormlight Archives by Brandon z Sanderson. I'm on book 4 now eagerly awaiting the release of 5. Easily one of if not the best series of his.
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Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#222I re-read The Diamond Age, by Neal Stephenson; it represents what I love about Sci-Fi: Interesting ideas on the edge of plausibility; a speculative society based on their consequences; a clever story and setting. Leaves me with a "Could be build that?" feeling. It's inspiring one my current side-projects; a molecular and protein modeler/simulation.
This is my favorite book. I have a signed first edition.
I'm super happy to see someone else appreciates it :-)
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#223Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#224Favorite Technical: The Pragmatic Programmer . This is something that I should have read much earlier. Favorite Fiction: Pale Fire . Just pure astonishment. Left me speechless with how he made the language sing. Also great (in no particular order): - The Sewing Girl's Tale (non-fiction) - The Odyssey (poem) - Tropic of Cancer (novel) - Tenth of December (short story collection). - Endurance (non-fiction) - The Billio…
I was blown away by Lolita, but couldn’t finish Pale Fire. The poetry felt like satire to me. And reading online about it I found mixed opinions on that!
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#225Fiction I discovered and read Blake Crouch this year - Dark Matter - Recursion - Upgrade - Pines I also discovered and read - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir - Gravity by Tess Gerritsen - A Man by, At the End of the Matinee Keiichiro Hirano It's between Recursion and Project Hail Mary for me. I am leaning more towards Recursion. Non-fiction I discovered and read the following this year - Deep Work by Cal Newport - The…
I really enjoyed Recursion but am disappointed by Upgrade (finishing it atm).
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crucial Conversations was mandatory material for managers at Facebook, and I feel it's so impactful for any communication channel that I recommend to all my professional friends IRL. Also in that vein, I highly recommend Nonviolent Communication.
Interesting. What other books are mandatory reading for managers at Facebook?
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Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#227I was late by a year to it, but Kazuo Ishiguro's Klara and the Sun was both fascinating and, typical for Ishiguro, almost lethally concentrated melancholy. A literary take on AGI and religion from the cleverly written perspective of an AI assistant device, mixed with a coming-of-age story and a meditation on the disposability of modern technology.
How did you feel it compared with some of his other works? Personally I enjoyed it, but to me it wasn't quite on the same level with some of his other books like the buried giant or remains of the day.
Kazuo Ishiguro's entire career revolves around memory: remembrances, sometimes unreliable, and always moving. If you like Ishiguro can I recommend W.G. Sebald? Rings of Saturn is like nothing I've ever read before.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#228Best paper I read was "Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (2011)". https://pages.lip6.fr/Marek.Zawirski/papers/RR-7687.pdf CRDTs get a lot of hype on HN, 95% of the time it's for collaborative editing. But they're much more than some JS library to build an app around - they're a formalism of distributed systems that are strongly eventually consistent. What this means is if the mathematical properties [0] of CRDTs ho…
thanks for sharing this. Was looking to read about the space.
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#229Best paper I read was "Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (2011)". https://pages.lip6.fr/Marek.Zawirski/papers/RR-7687.pdf CRDTs get a lot of hype on HN, 95% of the time it's for collaborative editing. But they're much more than some JS library to build an app around - they're a formalism of distributed systems that are strongly eventually consistent. What this means is if the mathematical properties [0] of CRDTs ho…
> In this scenario, the whole database is a single CRDT.
But why? These ideas are elegant but usually not practical. Performance usually ends up forcing us back to ole faithful (mutability).
Re: Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
#230An Elegant Puzzle- Systems Engineering Management. The content is great, and the design and typsetting are fantastic too. It helped formalize a lot of half thoughts I had floating around my head in regards to engineering management.
Systems of Engineering Management.
Leaving out the of makes it sound like a much more interesting book, IMO ;)