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Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ? (besides the fact you might "stumble" upon documents you're not supposed to read)

The last time I've checked, the worst thing was that it demands money once the document is old enough(!) Then, it required from you to have an account just to download the document. Finally, it didn't work without Javascript. For me, instead of adding value, it reduces it, so I decided to avoid it to save my time. I know Scribd is a Y Combinator's company.

Not just Javascript but Javascript from about a dozen different hosts last time I tried it and quite a few of them seemed to be required. I avoid it too.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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What's everyone's recommended readings? I'm halfway through thinking forth at the moment and want to keep the ball rolling!

I'm reading Programming in Scala. The free online, out of date but good enough to help you decide to go further or not first edition. I have the scala repl open alongside. Never programmed in Scala, don't know that I ever will, but it's interesting. http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

I'm also re-reading Niven's Ringworld series, as a bridgehead to the rest of his Known Space material; I've never gone beyond Ringworld before. I'm in the third book at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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post #12

A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives. I am waiting.

Keep waiting.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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I know people say this all the time, but I nearly did not click the link, because it said scribd. It turns out it's a pdf served at this address, along with another link to scribd in the brackets: https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommend... "I think the title should read [pdf] and [scribd]"

An alternative is Google Viewer: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://noggin.intel.com/...

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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post #29
post #12

A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives. I am waiting.

Well, Java Concurrency in Practice certainly isn't low quality but it is boring and outdated. An alternative would be Clojure For the Brave And True :)

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Are there any other recommended reading lists? (For example for web development/windows programming etc.)

I am certain you will find any number of lists, narrow and broad, on Reddit, GoodReads, LibraryThing, O'Reilly (blog posts), Amazon listmania, StackOverflow, HN etc.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-content-search/results/re...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reddit+web+programming

Some stackoverflow tags have a really good info tab, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info

Others, not so much: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/web/info

Hacker News: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22reading+lis...

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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I know people say this all the time, but I nearly did not click the link, because it said scribd. It turns out it's a pdf served at this address, along with another link to scribd in the brackets: https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommend... "I think the title should read [pdf] and [scribd]"

I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ? (besides the fact you might "stumble" upon documents you're not supposed to read)

JavaScript, holds PDFs hostage, adds zero value (my browser can display PDFs just fine, thank you very much), operates a business based on copyright violation.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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I know people say this all the time, but I nearly did not click the link, because it said scribd. It turns out it's a pdf served at this address, along with another link to scribd in the brackets: https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommend... "I think the title should read [pdf] and [scribd]"

I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ? (besides the fact you might "stumble" upon documents you're not supposed to read)

It used to have a really obnoxious and entirely useless UI around the actual document. But recently links to scribd point to plain PDF so I made my peace with it.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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post #12

A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

Code Complete is a great book.
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