Let's Build a Compiler by Jack Crenshaw.[1] It's not really the content that I enjoy, rather the form of instruction. To exaggerate, I'm sure that someone who had never touched programming in their life could learn how to write a compiler from this work.
Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
41–50 of 105 posts
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#42Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#43[deleted]
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#44Richard Hamming: You and Your Research http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html
Same here, I read it at least once a year.
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#45I always find it stimulating to read
How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab [1] and Where's the Passion [2].
[1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487 [2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093808/
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#46(NSFW) "The Others" I keep it in a bookmark with the title "never forget". It is in French but it is mostly for the pictures of civilian victims in Syria.
https://making-of.afp.com/les-autres
Remember how privileged we are. Remember how quickly these privileges can go away. Remember how unfair the world is.
Focus on what is important. Focus on life. Yours and others.
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#47This response to someone on StackOverflow asking how to parse HTML with regex: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/145684
I used to love this answer but after I realised that it's same irrational peddling of best practices as "don't-use-goto". There can be many cases where parsing HTML with Regex is abuse, but equally others where it's the best available solution. I wasted countless hours in working with lame HTML libraries, their limited options for selectors, their frustrating failures with invalid HTML, all because of this advice. Looking back, I think Regex would have worked just fine.
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#48Brendan Gregg's [linux perf](http://www.brendangregg.com/linuxperf.html) posts.
They a great reference for linux tools and how to use them.
They are also a great guide to deductive reasoning when spelunking through a system to find issues.
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#49On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/
That website seems to be under construction but I found an alternate link: https://libcom.org/library/phenomenon-bullshit-jobs-david-gr...
Re: Ask HN: What essay/blogpost do you keep going back to reread?
#50I always find it stimulating to read How to do Research At the MIT AI Lab [1] and Where's the Passion [2]. [1]: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/41487 [2]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3093808/
David Chapman, the author of "How to do Research at the MIT AI Lab" is currently writing a book on meta-rationality over at meaningness.com. Highly recommended.
A taste from the blog outside of the book: https://meaningness.com/metablog/stem-fluidity-bridge