Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by pmcpinto » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

iheredia wrote: post #16

I'm starting to work from home some days, so I just started reading Remote, office not required http://37signals.com/remote/

I have to read that one

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by monk_e_boy » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

prezjordan wrote: post #19

Started Flatland on the train yesterday - lots of fun so far. I'm looking for more Sci-fi if HN can recommend anything! I've been reading a lot of historical non-fiction over the years, but recently finished Snow Crash and the Diamond Age. Love the genre, but don't know much about it.

"Off to be the wizard" is pretty light and fun. "John dies at the end" was fun, not really sci-fi, more buffy the vampire slayer esque. "Existence" by David Brin made me want to puke it had so many good ideas. A tiny bit dated, but very smart. "The Martian" I expect you've read it. Good romp, easy to read. Reminded me of a Michael Crichton. "World War Z" was good.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by iterationx » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

"Icebreaker: Who Started the Second World War?" by Viktor Suvorov

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by bob_loblaw » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 2:38 PM UTC

HolyLampshade wrote: post #6

Currently reading a few, including: - The Good Spy - Kai Bird (Robert Ames bio) - Becoming Steve Jobs - Brent Schlender (after reading Isaacson's Jobs' bio I figured another perspective wouldn't be horrible) - Countdown to Zero Day - Kim Zetter (RE: Stuxnet and cyber-espionage) And finally, I'm re-reading The Accidental Guerrilla by David Kilcullen (something of a social science approach to "Why do rebels/guerrillas/…

I'm a big fan of The Accidental Guerrilla. I went through a big counter insurgency phase about seven years ago. That book and The Gamble by Ricks were my favorites.

Re: Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?

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Post by dhagz » Thu, Apr 09, 2015, 2:40 PM UTC

Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby, Sandi Metz. Doing this for a bookclub I sort of helped start with some local developers.

A Game of Thrones, GRRM. The new preview chapter restarted my hype train and reminded me how much I missed reading the books. So I started another read-through, hoping I'll be done by the release of the next book.

I've also been reading lots of stuff on Git. I'm trying to learn everything I can about hooks so that I can start doing awesome things automatically, and I feel it's the one aspect of git workflows I haven't explored yet.