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- Writing High-Performance .Net
- The Joy of Cojure
- Systems Performance
- The Linux Programming Interface
- The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System
- Building Microservices
Wow, I'm glad this topic came up; the pile-up is bigger than I realised. It's apparent that I finish novels faster than technical books :| I really need to buckle down and finish these off..
The media we use influence the way we think, the way we act, the political narrative of our times, etc. by placing limits and incentives on the messages we convey through those media. As an easy example, consider Twitter: you cannot have a coherent and intellectually involved conversation on Twitter. If Twitter were our only method, or main method, of communication, that property would drastically shape public discourse.
As technologists, we are developing the communications media of the future; it is imperative that we take on this task responsibly by first reflecting on the design and effects of media from the past.
Programming F# 3.0, 2nd Edition While not reading it right now (read it 4-5 yrs ago) I recommend The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. One of the few non-technical books that I really enjoyed :)
I just read Andy Weir's The Martian in one day -- it was (obviously) fantastic. I highly recommend it.
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A good friend of mine recommended Atlas Shrugged a while back. I couldn't finish it. I just couldn't swallow the "better than you" venom Dagny spewed everywhere. Maybe I'm missing something
You're not missing anything. There's a reason John Rogers wrote “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
Do you disagree with her philosophy? If so - can you tell me about which things exactly made you dislike it and why?
Everyone repeats this quote, and everyone generally says bad things about this book, but never anything concrete, never a clear reason what exactly is so bad about it.
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.
Review in The New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/27/books/review/thinking-fast...