I just read Smartcuts, Made to Stick, and Traction - a great trio of books to get your mind in the right spot as you pursue a market to create a product.
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Can someone enlighten me about how to read the Foundation series? Do you read them in the order of publication or the chronology of the story?
I read in order of publication! Seemed to work well.
I read Foundation, then the two prequels, then everything else by publication date. I remember this working well, but this was around 20 years ago :)
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#383I've been reading Pynchon's Against The Day for the better part of a decade now. I'm hoping to finish it within the next three or four years.
I was that way with The Brothers Karamazov. But it was worth it in the end.
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#384After Sun Tzu's "Art of War", I recommend you Bertrand Russell's "The Conquest of Happiness" (1930) :-)
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haha thank you, I was scratching my head as to the downvotes. HN is weird. I do recognize that it's difficult to maintain a healthy online community, and that if you forced people to comment when downvoting, you still don't necessarily get constructive criticism. s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ?
> s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ? Or vim. Any books on neovim yet?
Why would there be a book on neovim? It's just vim with a different plugin system allowing you to create plugins from any language via rpc and improved architecture right?
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#386Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid , and I'm loving it. Some parts are funny, some are dry, and some are truly mind-blowing. As someone who loves wordplay, self-reference, and multiple layers of meaning, this book is like crack. Every chapter surprises me with something new. Its reputation is well-deserved.
I see this book lauded on HN frequently. Would it be interesting/understandable for someone who doesn't have a CS background but has an interest in CS?
There is very little "hard CS" in the book, though there are references to programming. It's more about formal systems. If you're a CS major you may find these things easier to grasp, since you can draw analogies to finite state automata, recursion, the halting problem, etc. But a CS degree is by no means required to enjoy the book.
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> s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ? Or vim. Any books on neovim yet?
Why would there be a book on neovim? It's just vim with a different plugin system allowing you to create plugins from any language via rpc and improved architecture right?
Woosh.
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#388Audiobooks I have Read Recently: (Sanderson is Awesome) * The Reckoners #1/#2 * Stormlight Archive #1/#2 * Mistborn #1/#2/#3 * Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker Digital Books: * How to Win Friends and Influence People * Malazon Book #1 * The Forever War * The Martian Things on my List: * Think and Grow Rich * Watership Down * Rainbows End * Snow Crash * What is Zen * Wool: Silo * Fou…
Add "Deamon" by Daniel Suarez to your list.
I really enjoyed the Daemon series. In a similar vein, you might want to try William Hertling's Avogadro Corp.series.
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#389Codex Magica - Secret SIgns, Mysterious Symbols, and Hidden Codes of the Illuminati
THE OCCULT SCRIPT - A Colossal and Monstrous Conspiracy
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#390Buckminster Fuller's Synergetics. It's online, btw. Hard to read, but well worth the effort. I have been reading it since I first got it, a couple decades ago.