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Re: The Hacker News Top books of 2023

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Post by bckygldstn »

tester457 wrote: post #3

A site similar to this I enjoy is Reddit Reads[1]. It displays the top books for most subreddits. A fun way to learn about a niche, hobby or internet culture is seeing what that group reads. [1] https://www.redditreads.com/

Oh hey this is my site, I’m glad you like it!

Re: The Hacker News Top books of 2023

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Post by m1keil »

gonzo41 wrote: post #6
crimbles wrote: post #2

Read/use 13 of them. The Phoenix Project is however used as toilet paper. This is a symbolic gesture after working in a very fucked up company who decided the management restructure wasn’t at fault and maybe if they bought a copy and gave it to everyone and we used it as a religious text then everything would be fine. It was a painful read at best. Surprised to see Euclid’s elements. I have a volume from 1742 on the…

The Phoenix Project is ok. It's just a simple parable to teach people about the benefits of ITSM and CAB. However, I really wished someone would write something like the phoenix project but there's no happy ending. Instead, things just get worse and worse for all the characters, both professionally and personally.

So just normal job in bigCorp?

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Post by dktalks »

jjcm wrote: post #12

I'm getting a certificate error hitting this site: https://image.non.io/a2349bf1-faba-49e4-85f4-4ef2ddbd9aa4.we... Anyone else seeing this?

This is due to the browser not trusting certificates from letsencrypt, you probably might also see this on other sites like stackoverflow, videolan etc. You need to import and trust the certificates for ISRG Root from[1] and should not see that error.

[1] https://letsencrypt.org/certificates/

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Post by drivers99 »

gonzo41 wrote: post #6
crimbles wrote: post #2

Read/use 13 of them. The Phoenix Project is however used as toilet paper. This is a symbolic gesture after working in a very fucked up company who decided the management restructure wasn’t at fault and maybe if they bought a copy and gave it to everyone and we used it as a religious text then everything would be fine. It was a painful read at best. Surprised to see Euclid’s elements. I have a volume from 1742 on the…

The Phoenix Project is ok. It's just a simple parable to teach people about the benefits of ITSM and CAB. However, I really wished someone would write something like the phoenix project but there's no happy ending. Instead, things just get worse and worse for all the characters, both professionally and personally.

The Goal was an interesting read after having read The Phoenix Project. It's what The Phoenix Project was based on. It's about the Theory of Constraints and in "The Goal" they're trying to save a manufacturing plant. (First edition is from 1984. They're up to fourth edition.)

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Post by kaycebasques »

Just finished The Three-Body Problem trilogy. What a saga. I finished the last book a month or two back and I still find myself randomly thinking about various ideas that I picked up in those books. If you're "serious" about sci-fi, I would say that you really do have to read those books as part of your "curriculum".
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