- Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
- Copywriting (Teach Yourself series), by J. Jonathan Gabay
- The Paradox of Choice, by Barry Schwartz
Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
11–20 of 65 posts
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#12The Feynman Lectures on Physics
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
A Latin/English dictionary for new company names
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#13Some plants for better air quality.
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#14It really depends what sort of hacker they are. There's a sort of hacker you buy a copy of "Pro JavaScript Techniques" for, a sort you buy the Dragon Book for, and another sort who you give a copy of TAOCP.
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#15designing the obvious - a common sense approach to web application design by Robert Hoekman Jr
The New New Thing
Masters of Doom (story of id software, great story)
Smart Start-ups: How Entrepreneurs and Corporations Can Profit by Starting Online Communities
steven levy's Hackers and crypto also for the history.
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#16Programmers at Work, by Susan Lammers.
It opened up many many ideas to me, including flying, writing software for people, why simple software is harder to write than complicated software, and gave me some indication of what 'being smart' really means.
I really highly recommend this book.
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#17Recommended:
* Everyware: Dawning of the age of ubiquitous computing
* Never Eat Alone
A few biographies of people you admire too. My favourite is "Buckminster Fuller's Universe".
Has anyone got a recommendation for a good biography on Walt Disney?
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#18Harry Potter, Goosebumps, choose your own adventure stories...
Oh, wait, I have to look like I'm really smart. Um, Knuth.
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#19Upcoming:
"High Performance MySQL" (O'Reilly) (New Edition)
"Advanced PHP Programming: Developing Large-scale Web Applications With PHP 5" (Developer's Library) by George Schlossnagle
Released:
"Building Scalable Websites" (O'Reilly) by Cal Henderson
"Scalable Internet Architectures" (Developer's Library) by Theo Schlossnagle
Re: Ask YC: What would you put on a hacker's bookshelf?
#20Getting Things Done, by David Allen
anything by Edward Tufte
The Singularity Is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
Dip, by Seth Godin