“The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception” by James J. Gibson completely changed how I think about vision and moving images.
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#32The Jazz Theory book - Mark Levine High Performance Browser Networking - edit: Ilya Grigorik Effortless Mastery - Kenny werner
High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik you mean. +1 for the recommendation. I always found it hard to learn about networking from the traditional textbooks and this answered a lot of the questions that I always wondered about.
Oops yes thanks
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#33Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
Was a great source of design patterns when I first began to design business applications on top of relational databases.
https://zjnu2017.github.io/OOAD/reading/Object.Oriented.Anal...
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#34The Art of Electronics, Horowitz and Hill
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#35Ihe e-myth book by michael gerber. It hits you right in the face when you're a.. what he calls the Technician masquerading as an Entrepreneur.
It's truly an eye opening book and really helps you see the systems in everything from a bakery to the hotel chains as soon as you've read it.
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#36"Laboratory life" by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar
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#37Physics: Feynman's lectures on physics. Maths: Rudin's Real and Complex analysis. Software engineering: The Mythical Man-Month. Computer science: Knuth's TAOCP.
TAOCP, you have worked through the whole thing? At what point in life?
I did it in toilet sessions but only the first volume (do not have other volumes in paper).
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#38For power system operations: "Power System Stability and Control" by Prabha Kundur (https://www.amazon.com/System-Stability-Control-Prabha-Kundu...)
It is the bible of modern power system operations, and it will become more and more important as more renewable energy comes online. Understanding the concepts presented in this book is the difference between "why haven't we hit 100% renewables yet?!" and "we need market incentives for inertial ancillary services".
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#39The Cuckoo’s Egg by Clifford Stoll. In my humble opinion, it should be a foundational text to read for all technology students.
Cliff Stoll! I'll have whatever he's having
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#40Introduction to Heat Transfer by Frank P. Incropera and David P. Dewitt
Wind Energy Handbook by Tony Burton, Nick Jenkins, David Sharpe, Ervin Bossanyi
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill