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2. Pragmatic Programmer - A classic, learned many practical tips for day to day programming job.
3. Founders at Work - Motivated me to work on my side projects and be constantly learning.
2. "The Bible" - I am not too religious, but I am a spiritual person. I find the new testament to be a good blueprint on how to live a righteous life.
3. "The Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master" - such a timeless classic. Just get it...
This may sound like an odd one, but years ago, I almost never took the time to read. My girlfriend, who knew that I loved Sherlock Holmes books when I was younger, convinced me to try this book as an audiobook while I did my ~40 minute commute to work. I was skeptical, but within days, I was hooked. It made my work commute much more interesting (a British person was reading me Sherlock Holmes!); then I started listening to audiobooks during all my driving (instead of wasting time, I can learn!); then I got an iPod, put audiobooks on that, and started listening to them during all sorts of odd chores (e.g. cleaning, walking, biking); after that, I was so hooked on books, that I started making time to read them too. This had a profoundly transformative effect on my career.
2. "The Lean Startup" by Eric Ries.
I got a copy of this book when I went to a talk by Eric Ries. Eric seemed like a humble, down-to-earth person and helped dispel the notion that to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to be a prescient, superhero, god-like visionary. Instead, what you need to do is to treat your startup and product ideas as hypotheses and test them, as quickly and cheaply as you can (i.e. lean development, MVPs, etc). This fit very well with what I had seen in the real world and with how I thought about problem solving as a software engineer, and gave me a lot of confidence to try out many of my ideas. Since then, I've used these ideas to start a company (http://www.gruntwork.io/) and written quite a bit on what I learned, including an article on The Macro about MVPs (http://themacro.com/articles/2016/01/minimum-viable-product-...).
3. "On Writing Well" by William Zinsser.
If Conan Doyle taught me about the fun of reading, then William Zinsser taught me about the fun of writing. If you want to learn how to write, what it's like to write, or why you should write ("Writing is not a special language owned by the English teacher. Writing is thinking on paper."), it's hard to find a better guide. This book significantly improved my writing skills and even gave me the confidence to write a book (http://www.hello-startup.net/).
1. Ego Is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday 2. sidebar from /r/theredpill 3. The Millionaire Fastlane: Crack the Code to Wealth and Live Rich for a Lifetime Book number 3 has probably the most 'click baity' and the most douchey title of all times. It sounds like one of those self help books or one of those get rich fast schemas but in fact, it's an eye opener and it encourages hard work.
Is #2 a joke? I sincerely hope it is. Such a hateful ideology has no place on Hacker News
It's not a joke, one hasn't to take all for granted in that sub and 90% of those people are pathetic but there is some truth in the sidebar.
What the redpill tries to teach people, is to take control over their lives.
Don't focus on woman but on your dreams, if one can manage to take control over those things, woman will come naturally.
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Is #2 a joke? I sincerely hope it is. Such a hateful ideology has no place on Hacker News
You know there are always 3 different perspectives, mine, yours and the truth. It's not a joke, one hasn't to take all for granted in that sub and 90% of those people are pathetic but there is some truth in the sidebar. What the redpill tries to teach people, is to take control over their lives. Don't focus on woman but on your dreams, if one can manage to take control over those things, woman will come naturally.
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You know there are always 3 different perspectives, mine, yours and the truth. It's not a joke, one hasn't to take all for granted in that sub and 90% of those people are pathetic but there is some truth in the sidebar. What the redpill tries to teach people, is to take control over their lives. Don't focus on woman but on your dreams, if one can manage to take control over those things, woman will come naturally.
There are so many things wrong with your post. Women are NOT objects to be acquired as some sort of sick goal or prize for being a productive society member. Women do not exert a control over men from which they must be freed. In fact, patriarchal society most often (and visibly) keeps women out of control and away from success and the kind of sick thinking you demonstrated above and is exalted by red pill communitie…
Well I'm sorry this isn't the right moment for that.
I never said that I treat them like objects, in fact I value woman even more since the red pill.
I just don't focus on woman but on myself.
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There are so many things wrong with your post. Women are NOT objects to be acquired as some sort of sick goal or prize for being a productive society member. Women do not exert a control over men from which they must be freed. In fact, patriarchal society most often (and visibly) keeps women out of control and away from success and the kind of sick thinking you demonstrated above and is exalted by red pill communitie…
It seems like you just had that text saved somewhere and you didn't know when and how to use that phrase. Well I'm sorry this isn't the right moment for that. I never said that I treat them like objects, in fact I value woman even more since the red pill. I just don't focus on woman but on myself.
- Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach (Hennessy/Patterson)
- Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets (van der Linden)
I woud call the Pragmatic Programmer though by far the most influential.
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It seems like you just had that text saved somewhere and you didn't know when and how to use that phrase. Well I'm sorry this isn't the right moment for that. I never said that I treat them like objects, in fact I value woman even more since the red pill. I just don't focus on woman but on myself.
How does your last paragraph not degrade women as goal based objects. This is disgusting and I can not believe you are feigning ignorance to the meaning of the words you posted.