What would you recommend to read?

14 points by pleasecalllater 8y ago ↗ HN

Hey, what would you recommend to read?

Something about IT or other technical things.

Something longer than simple blog posts.

Something with details so I could learn something new.

I will not give you any information about what interests me, I hope I will be surprised :)

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gt565k 8y ago ↗

clean code

mo4 8y ago ↗

Don't read. Do. Something. Anything. When you get stuck go looking for a book.

aespinoza 8y ago ↗

Not sure if this is technical enough, and maybe it is not at all, but it is a book that keeps inspiring me to build new things:

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter

It is a long book, but there is a lot to learn there.

jacksmith21006 8y ago ↗

This and then read the Phoenix project and then the Google devops book.

cvolzer3 8y ago ↗

Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography

enkiv2 8y ago ↗

The Earth Will Shake by Robert Anton Wilson

amhenk 8y ago ↗

I enjoyed Men, Machines, and Modern Times by Elton E. Morison. Not necessarily technical but has some interesting history and talks about some of the struggles inventions/inventors may take on.

rayascott 8y ago ↗

The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/index.html

romanhn 8y ago ↗

The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim might be right up your alley. Straddles that line between fiction and non-fiction, and might teach you a thing or two about DevOps.

soulchild37 8y ago ↗

Any article from kalzumeus.com , literally raised my salary by 50%

dilemma 8y ago ↗

How?

soulchild37 8y ago ↗

Applying stuff mentioned here during salary negotiation : http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...

wirddin 8y ago ↗

Suggestion: Mastering Bitcoins [0]

It's great and it was the first technical book which I read so was kind of interesting. You can skip to the actual part, after Introduction to get to know Bitcoins (and Blockchain) works.

Read these if you haven't already:

- Zero To One, Peter Thiel [1]

- Hooked, Nir Eyal [2]

- The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Ben Horowitz [3]

[0] http://amzn.to/2lgnHrS

[1] http://amzn.to/2yMNvR1

[2] http://amzn.to/2lftjCq

[3] http://amzn.to/2gKv3Cl

atsaloli 8y ago ↗

"Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Software-Kanat-Alexande...

0x54MUR41 8y ago ↗

Since we are on Hacker News, I would recommend to read what top mentioned by Hacker News users (by comment) [0]. This recommendation contains not only about IT but also other topics.

[0]: http://hackernewsbooks.com/top-books-on-hacker-news

hackermailman 8y ago ↗

A paper on the current state of dbms architecture, describing New/NoSQL, non volatile memory dbms, ect http://db.cs.cmu.edu/papers/2016/pavlo-newsql-sigmodrec2016....

philippz 8y ago ↗

"From impossible to inevitable" from Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin. Should help you getting started with sales and being more focused.

mabub24 8y ago ↗

The Arabs: A History, by Eugene Rogan.

Eugene Rogan is an excellent, clear writer with a gift for illuminating events through primary sources. The historical information provides vivid context for the current state of the Middle East, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and the rise of Islamism.

https://www.amazon.com/Arabs-History-Eugene-Rogan/dp/0465025...