1. Programming Clojure (Not going too well)
2. Refactoring your Wetware (This is a very good book)
3. SICP (Just started looking into this to see if I can attempt to write the code in Clojure)
What are you reading?
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#22Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll
Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges
Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
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#23Omnivore's Dilemma. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Omnivore%27s_Dilemma
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#24* Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life, by Winifred Gallagher (So-so. Pop-psychy, but interesting ideas.)
* 500 Essential Anime Movies: The Ultimate Guide, by Helen Mccarthy (Perhaps one doesn't actually read such a book, but graze.)
* Mister Blank Exhaustive Collection, by Christopher J. Hicks (Fun. Love the art.)
* Programming Cocoa with Ruby, by Brian Marick (Tonight I will likely crack this open and see how soon I can code something.)
* Where I'm Calling From: Selected Stories, by Raymond Carver (Started in, will work slowly through the stories.)
Sitting on the floor, beckoning me:
* Sunnyside, by Glen David Gold
* The Invention of Air, by Steven Johnson
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#25The Reasoned Schemer by Friedman, Byrd, and Kiselyov
Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki
Programming Language Pragmatics, 3rd ed by Scott
Fast Analytical Techniques for Electrical and Electronic Circuits by Vorperian
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#26Finishing "Atlas Shrugged". While ideas and the spirit of the book have aged only slightly, the way of writing seems way too pretentious for our times. But overall the book is interesting. From historic and ideological point of view.
For a time, I considered this my bible. But it's too idealistic, and goes a long way on some fairly iffy assumptions. It's still compelling as hell, though.
Ayn Rand was a philosopher. And like most philosophers, she started out with some good ideas and over applied them to everything in life, which leads to some scary conclusions.
My favorite Rand book was Anthem. It was short and therefore didn't have space to extrapolate Rand's ideas to their scary conclusion.
I just finished reading Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. It is just as long and pompous as Atlas Shrugged, but of the exact opposite philosophy. Those two books make for some interesting comparisons.
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#27OO i love these threads. I am currently reading "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro and its awesome so far (~150 pgs in). Just finished Zinn's "A people's history". Next up is "Atlas Shrugged" or "The Power of Babel" by John McWhorter.
Why? Just because someone is reading something doesn't mean it's a good recommendation. I'm reading "Two years before the mast," and it's okay. There are better books.
However, here's a real recommendation: If you have a netbook, it can be used very effectively as an e-book reader if you turn it on its side while in bed, or place it upon your chest. I didn't buy it for that reason, but it is the most comfortable manner of reading books, AFAICS.
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#28The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi
Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt
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#29. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M. Pirsig
. Programming Clojure
. Little Schemer (re-reading)
. Evidence-Based Technical Analysis: Applying the Scientific Method and Statistical Inference to Trading Signals by David Aronson
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
For a time, I considered this my bible. But it's too idealistic, and goes a long way on some fairly iffy assumptions. It's still compelling as hell, though.
Ayn Rand was a philosopher. And like most philosophers, she started out with some good ideas and over applied them to everything in life, which leads to some scary conclusions. My favorite Rand book was Anthem. It was short and therefore didn't have space to extrapolate Rand's ideas to their scary conclusion. I just finished reading Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo. It is just as long and pompous as Atlas Shrugged, but…
I once listened to a 80-hour overview of the world's great philosophers, given by modern professors.
What amazed me was how many of them came up with a good idea that was new and revolutionary -- and then spent the rest of their life taking the damn thing too far. I guess great people fall so much in love with their great ideas that it never occurs to them that the most important piece is finding the boundaries for where their work applies and where it does not.