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Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by okal »

anthony_romeo wrote: post #68
okal wrote: post #23

I built http://hackershelf.com just for this. It's a crowdsourced listing of legally free books on just about any topic.

I love this. I'll be signing up. Just one thing, browsing by topic doesn't seem to have any sort of rhyme or reason in its ordering aside from some vague first-letter ordering. For example, there are numerous "I" categories, with one "I" for "interactive" and another one for "Interactive". One grouping of "I"'s includes tags "ios", "iOS", and "ip", but the next "I" grouping below just contains "IP" Edit: I see the or…

Thank you. I'm not actively maintaining it anymore, TBH, but I've been getting bug reports/feature requests lately [meaning actual people still use it] so it might be time to reconsider that stance.

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by evanwolf »

brudgers wrote: post #36

The first amazing thing I found on the internet: https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page in early 1994 over gopher at 9600 baud for a penny per minute. Still amazing.

Me too! And today, I always keep a pocketful of classics on my phone.

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by Istof »

okal wrote: post #46
crshults wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for this. I was happy to see 'Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems' on your list, though the link appears broken - new link: [1]. I remember working through that book and porting everything from C to Assembly (my boss at the time was too cheap to buy me the nice Keil compiler). Once I had that library in hand, I was knocking out his projects in days instead of weeks. [1] http://www.safetty.net/download…

As with any proper crowdsourced website, you can edit broken links yourself ;-)

also, to prevent conflicts of interests, sometimes it is better if someone else does it for you

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by stephanos2k »

CQRS Journey

"This guidance is designed to help you get started with the CQRS pattern and event sourcing. It is not intended to be the definitive guide to the CQRS pattern and event sourcing. Instead, it's a journal that describes the experiences of a development team with no prior CQRS proficiency in building, deploying (to Microsoft Azure), and maintaining a sample real-world complex enterprise system as a reference implementation (RI) to showcase various CQRS and ES concepts & techniques."

available as PDF: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554200.aspx

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by walterbell »

(1) Lions on Unix (PDF and source), http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/Lions/index.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6th...

"Lions' Commentary on UNIX 6th Edition, with Source Code by John Lions (1976) contains the complete source code of the 6th Edition Unix kernel plus a commentary. It is commonly referred to as the Lions book. Despite its age, it is still considered an excellent commentary on simple but high quality code."

(2) Harper's dictionary of classical literature and antiquities (1898), 1750 pages, https://archive.org/details/harpersdictiona00peckgoog

(3) Oxford English Dictionary (1888), 15000 searchable page scans in a Windows app, https://archive.org/details/oed11_201407

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by acjohnson55 »

Javascript Allongé is one of my favorite programming books ever: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read. I think it's a great book even if you don't program Javascript, because the way Braithwaite talks about programming language techniques is so interesting. I had been programming Javascript for a long time before I read this back, and afterward, it changed my whole point of view on how it could be used.

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by giacomoharp »

Oldie but goodie. A contrarian view of business from a prototypical hacker, Don Lancaster. I re-read this every few years to regain perspective.

The Incredible Secret Money Machine http://www.tinaja.com/ebooks/ismm.pdf more of Don: http://tinaja.com/

   -G

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by sethrin »

strangetimes wrote: post #63

"A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander https://archive.org/details/APatternLanguage

I had no idea that was online. Thank you for posting it.

For my contribution, I would suggest http://bartleby.com as a source for literature.

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by wmock »

acjohnson55 wrote: post #77

Javascript Allongé is one of my favorite programming books ever: https://leanpub.com/javascript-allonge/read . I think it's a great book even if you don't program Javascript, because the way Braithwaite talks about programming language techniques is so interesting. I had been programming Javascript for a long time before I read this back, and afterward, it changed my whole point of view on how it could be used.

I agree with you - just started reading this and finding it super helpful in my understanding of JS.
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