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It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.
I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations? It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.
So, the short explanations of why the books are interesting is your introduction to yourself, your overlap (books I already read) is the evaluation material, and the rest of the blog/notes is the thing that it's really being discussed.
I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations? It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.
On a more serious note: Because there are some books in this list that at least I've never heard about but sound interesting.
Is there a HN Goodreads collection, or similar? Lots of lists like this (inc. my own: https://www.productgems.io/library/ ) but would love to see something centralised when in search of a new book to read (that's not a generic top 10).
This website has a list of books talked about on HN: https://hackernewsbooks.com
I would be glad if there was a little information about the author of the blog. I do not know who jess fraz is, why would I bother to see his/her recommendations? It would be pretty nice for posters to put some additional information about the topic rather than just posting a link.
Because she is famous (over 100K followers on twitter) ;) On a more serious note: Because there are some books in this list that at least I've never heard about but sound interesting.
In the grand scheme of things, Twitter fame means little.
That might the the more shocking thing lol
I don’t understand why people recommend books like “a programmers introduction to mathematics”. They’re advertised as books for “programmers” or people that know little math, yet they hide solutions from the reader. The reader that doesn’t know proper proofs or deep mathematics likely isn’t the same ones that know if their solutions are correct. Programmers like to write code with test cases. We don’t like to write c…