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

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Post by yirgacheffe »

A book I read recently that I think others on HN would appreciate is Robert Scheer's latest book, "They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy". Here's a link to the book on AMZN: http://www.amazon.com/They-Know-Everything-About-Data-Collec...

Highly recommended to anyone that cares about their privacy online!

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

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Post by steakejjs »

They are technical.

Brushing up on:

K&R - The C Programming Language

K&P - The Unix Programming Environment

K&P - The Practice of Programming

Kerrisk - The Linux Programming Interface (Not light reading)

Even though it is mostly review, reading code and seeing commands that K&R&P run has actually helped my workflow, code quality, etc.

Highly recommend re-reading if it has been a while. Even things like variable names have noticeably improved since beginning re-reading.

And, the Linux Programming Interface....is huge. There's always more to learn in there.

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

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Post by cushychicken »

loudmax wrote: post #249

Stories of Your Life and Others is a collection of short stories by Ted Chiang. The stories explore wildly different topics, but every one of them is amazing. Someone on HN had recommended The Box by Marc Levinson. It's a history of the shipping container. That sounds dreadfully prosaic, but the book is well written and the shipping container's influence on our modern global economy cannot be overstated. Not reading…

I didn't realize until the other day that DC isn't even at the point where the US enters the war yet. I've got a long way to go!

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

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Post by mathattack »

I'm currently about a third of the way through Hyperion by Dan Simmons. It's interesting Science Fiction.

In my queue: iWoz, the Google Way and the Lean Startup.

I want to pick up some Terry Pratchett books. Several years back a colleague said, "You're too serious in your reading, go look up this Pratchett fellow..."

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

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Post by sagarjauhari »

Currently reading

  * 7 languages in 7 weeks, Bruce A. Tate
  * Coders at Work, Peter Seibel
  * Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  * Neuromancer, William Gigson
Just finished

  * The Island of Doctor Moreau, H G Wells
  * Brave new world, Aldous Huxley
Recommend

  * The Martian: A Novel, Andy Weir
  * Dune, Frank Herbert
  * 2001: A space odyssey, Arthur C Clarke

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

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Post by mathattack »

iN7h33nD wrote: post #201

Audiobooks I have Read Recently: (Sanderson is Awesome) * The Reckoners #1/#2 * Stormlight Archive #1/#2 * Mistborn #1/#2/#3 * Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures As the World's Most Wanted Hacker Digital Books: * How to Win Friends and Influence People * Malazon Book #1 * The Forever War * The Martian Things on my List: * Think and Grow Rich * Watership Down * Rainbows End * Snow Crash * What is Zen * Wool: Silo * Fou…

If I can jump in... I'm a third of the way through Hyperion, and it's very interesting. It's Science Fiction that causes one to think.

Atlas Shrugged is an important intellectual work whether you agree with the philosophy or not. It's a long slog, but worth reading to understand the people who follow it. It will just take a long long time. I read it when I was doing regular coast to coast flights.

The Demon Haunted World is vintage Sagan. Very well worth readying, though as an HN member it's probably preaching to the choir.

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