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I don't have it at the moment, but seems useful to do things like check for topics or something so it'd have the ability to check for book topics and things like that too.
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I heard a story from an AI professor a few years ago, who had an interesting heuristic for picking grad student applications to trash: if it mentions GEB, off it goes into the circular file. Fun book. Hofstadter actually doesn't like computers, apparently: this is in the record, and I've heard him mention that fact multiple times. He just likes playing with ideas.
> if it mentions GEB, off it goes into the circular file Why?
Perhaps this one had bad experience with people who talked too much about GEB.
JS: The Good Parts is obsolete
Any recommendations for something more up to date?
A relatively new book that isn't mentioned (but that I really like) is "The Effective Engineer" by Edmond Lau. https://www.amazon.com/Effective-Engineer-Engineering-Dispro... Edit: Here's why I like it: https://henrikwarne.com/2017/01/15/book-review-the-effective...
Didn't see SICP (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs) on that list. Surprised considering how often I hear it quoted on SO. You would think it was the bible of computer science. A little old in the tooth i'd imagine.
It's there, just outside the top 30. Select the Computer Science category and you'll see it near the bottom.
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When you say something like "nice affiliate hack" it comes with an implication that it's wrong, because a lot of people on the Internet try to trick others into clicking their affiliate links.
Its OK to use the word "hack" on "hackernews"... negative connotation is not automatic here !
JS: The Good Parts is obsolete
Although not directly development related. The most impressive book I've had the pleasure of reading is "Gödel Escher Bach: An eternal golden braid" (also known as GEB) from Douglas Hofstadter. It's hard to explain what it is about exactly, but it contains ideas and concepts from mathematics, computer science, philosophy and conscience. All of it is explained in very clear and interesting way. I can recommend it to a…
I bought this book a few months ago, it's been sitting on my shelf because of its intimidating size (plus the fact that I have a few other books I want to work through) but this review has definitely bumped it up my reading list.