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Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
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#32Code Complete 2nd edition
Super hands-on book. Since reading it, I'm writing better programs faster.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
#33I enjoyed "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back when there we had multiple UNIX operating systems and probably more versions of standards than operating systems. Stevens carefully documented every detail (in a way where you could learn about what was going on; I also had the POSIX standards at the time which were not readable).
The book had some nice typesetting which I believe was done in the mystery language also used for man pages.
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#34Linux Device Drivers: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
The best and free kernel book.
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#35Absolute FreeBSD. Found it hilarious
https://www.michaelwlucas.com/nonfiction/absolute-freebsd
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#36Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
#37Am I the only one who's curious why the poster specified an "eBook" instead of just "book"?
Technical content tends to be more picky about layout etc than prose, which can be an issue for e-readers. Also some technical books suffer from the lack of ability to quickly browse and jump from one page to another.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
#38I enjoyed "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back when there we had multiple UNIX operating systems and probably more versions of standards than operating systems. Stevens carefully documented every detail (in a way where you could learn about what was going on; I also had the POSIX standards at the time which were not readable). The book had some nice typesetting which I believe was done in the mystery l…
> I enjoyed "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back when there we had multiple UNIX operating systems and probably more versions of standards than operating systems.
You were bit ahead of your time if you were reading ebooks back then.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
#39Surprised it hasn't been mentioned yet. Hands down the most eye opening technical book I've read is SICP. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ http://sicpebook.wordpress.com/ebook/
Also, you can go through the UC Berkeley SICP course for free: http://www-inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs61a/fa13/
I'm going through it now, on my own, and it's an awesome course.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical eBook you have read?
#40I enjoyed "Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment" back when there we had multiple UNIX operating systems and probably more versions of standards than operating systems. Stevens carefully documented every detail (in a way where you could learn about what was going on; I also had the POSIX standards at the time which were not readable). The book had some nice typesetting which I believe was done in the mystery l…
He used troff:
"Real Unix books are written using troff and this book follows that time-honored tradition. Camera-ready copy of the book was produced by the author using the groff package written by James Clark. Many thanks to James Clark for providing this excellent system and for his rapid response to bug fixes. Perhaps someday I will really understand troff footer traps."