Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology, by Ellen Ullman
An autobiography of a developer, and an author, looking back at her life. Narrated by the author. Might not be for everyone, but I really liked it.
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Re: Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
#42If you are looking for a quick way to convert an ebook into an audiobook, give us a try: https://auditus.cc
Wow! This is really natural! Great job.
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#43Creative Selection - Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
https://www.audible.com/pd/Creative-Selection-Audiobook/B07D...
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#44Yes! 1. Masters of Doom 2. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Masters of Doom is so damn good
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#45There's an audiobook version of "The Design of Everyday Things" by Don Norman.
The book per se doesn't have much to do with programming per se (at least directly), but Norman describes a couple of mechanisms how humans interact with tools and describes some simple formalisms around them. I personally believe that it's a very useful book to have read (or listened to) if you're going to write any software that humans interact with -- be it UI driven or APIs.
Re: Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
#46If you are looking for a quick way to convert an ebook into an audiobook, give us a try: https://auditus.cc
I completely understand that you need to start with epub books. But do you have longer term plans to partner with the proprietary ebook providers? There are a lot of older Kindle eBooks without audio versions that I would love to listen to during my commute.
Re: Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
#47If you are looking for a quick way to convert an ebook into an audiobook, give us a try: https://auditus.cc
I completely understand that you need to start with epub books. But do you have longer term plans to partner with the proprietary ebook providers? There are a lot of older Kindle eBooks without audio versions that I would love to listen to during my commute.
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#48War and Peace will help you better understand and deal with the constant change in your requirements and why you are right that management has no fucking clue. Also, great value for your audible credit.
But which one? There are more than one translation out there
Re: Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
#49The Unicorn Project,
The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen Covey,
Permanent Record,
Turn the ship around,
The Checklist Manifesto,
These are good ones!
Re: Ask HN: Do you know any good audio books for developers?
#50The Goal Novel by Eliyahu M. Goldratt A business fiction book that describes "The Theory of Constraints" a process initially applied in manufacturing that deals with optimizing production line systems. I found the sections on identifying a bottle neck in a system, focusing on optimizing the system around this point and re-evaluating system performance afterwards very applicable to software engineering. Everything fro…
I agree, totally worth reading, but when I read it in grad school I found it exceedingly dry. kinda had to choke it down. Certainly worth it and I'll probably listen to the Audible recording for a refresher when I need another book