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Re: What are you reading?

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Post by zackattack » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:33 AM UTC

Gang Leader for a Day Cracking the GRE Personal Development for Smart People The Ultimate Sales Machine Finding Your Zone: Ten Core Lessons for Achieving Peak Performance in Sports and Life

Must-read-soon: Infinite Jest; Tribes; Influence; Made to Stick; Foundation Rails 2

There aren't enough hours in the day. I'm going to shift to a wake-up-at-6-am sleep schedule so I can become a more productive person and have more time to read. Anyway, back to work.

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by leif » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:36 AM UTC

roryokane wrote: post #42

I'm reading Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson for the third time, and understanding it more than the second time. It has wonderful technical digressions that seem aimed precisely at geeks/hackers. In fact, on the the main characters is a programmer, and another is a code-breaker in the military who sees an opportunity for geeky analysis in everything he sees. (There are also many accounts of military battles from a so…

I'm about halfway through this. Not sure I liked it at first, because his style seemed a bit too heavy-handed, as if he were a 16 year old with a really big thesaurus, trying to allude to as many different things as possible. It's grown on me though, over the last far-too-many pages. Still not totally happy, but it's interesting.

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by soar » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:37 AM UTC

Learning Ruby Mass Effect: Revelation

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by crc » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:41 AM UTC

An introduction to probability - Vol I (William Feller)

Introduction to dynamic systems - David Luenberger

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by rokhayakebe » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:44 AM UTC

From Beirut to Jerussalem. Thomas Friedman.

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by chrisconley » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:46 AM UTC

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:48 AM UTC

83457 wrote: post #46

IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing Programming in Python 3

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Re: What are you reading?

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Post by etravers » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:48 AM UTC

Microsoft's Axum Programmers Guide (PDF). The language is beyond me, but I felt like going through it.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/B/D/5/BD51FFB2-C777-4...

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by tel » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:48 AM UTC

Ulysses, haha.

Re: What are you reading?

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Post by noodle » Tue, Sep 01, 2009, 2:49 AM UTC

had my temporary fill of tech books, so:

on my bedstand is "when you are engulfed in flames"

and my next major read is probably "the gathering storm" once it comes out.