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Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?

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Post by totony » Sat, Jul 23, 2016, 10:30 PM UTC

legodt wrote: post #25

ohgh1ieD wrote: post #13

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

I began reading the sidebar as per parent's recommendation and I see a lot of valid points in it. Also your post reinforces some points the author(s) mention in the sidebar. You should read it

Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?

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Post by re_todd » Sun, Jul 24, 2016, 4:02 AM UTC

amerkhalid wrote: post #51

1. Head First Design Patterns - Didn't learn patterns in school. This book made a lot of difference in communication with more experienced programmers. 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.

Head First Design Patterns is awesome. I read a couple other Design Pattern books, but didn't really get it. I didn't want to buy a "Head First" book because it looked kind of silly, but this book has finally opened my eyes to what Design Patterns are about.

Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?

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Post by homoSapiens » Sun, Jul 24, 2016, 5:42 AM UTC

1. Think and grow rich: Thought me about goal setting, opened my eyes to the fact that a man can rise from his humble beginnings to any height he want's to attain if he is willing to work for it.

2. PHP for dummies: My first exposure to the world of programming, since then I've never looked back.

3. Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Changed my thinking about finance, I don't know how I would have handled my finances if I hadn't come across this book as a teenager, I feel so lucky to have read this book. I would have been stuck in society's harmful way of handling finance.

Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?

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Post by hvd » Mon, Jul 25, 2016, 1:18 AM UTC

1.How to fail at almost everything and still win big- Scott adams 2.The Surrender Experiment - Michael Singer 3.Choose Yourself - Jamel Altucher

Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?

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Post by 1_listerine_pls » Mon, Jul 25, 2016, 6:40 AM UTC

przeor wrote: post #10

1) "how life imitates chess" Garry Kasparov 2) "how life imitates chess" Garry Kasparov 3) "how life imitates chess" Garry Kasparov Highly recommended, very good read and smart book. I would call it the modern version of The Art of War.

Such a coincidence that they have the same title and author name.

Re: Ask HN: What three books impacted your career the most?

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Post by EnderMB » Mon, Jul 25, 2016, 11:57 AM UTC

hirakchatterjee wrote: post #50

EnderMB wrote: post #18

1) Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell: I bought this book after it was referenced in one of Alex Ferguson's books. It's a fascinating tale of how people became to be successful by being the right person in the right environment at the right time, from how Bill Gates dominated the world of software, to how The Beatles became one of the best bands in the world. It's a great reminder that a mixture of hard work, the right env…

I can't agree more on #3. But there are few other books which take a less mathematical approach and I have found it quite useful.

I've picked up quite a few over the years, with my favourite being Algorithms by Sedgewick.

With that being said, I've tried to teach myself about the most important data structures and algorithms, but I find that I'm not "really" understanding them, and am purely just remembering the gist of what I need to know.

Perhaps it's imposter syndrome, but despite being a passable developer, there's a part of me that feels that I need to be able to read the CLRS book and actually understand what's going on, because until I can read that book I don't feel that I know the ins-and-outs of these algorithms.