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  1. I'd like a technical explanation. IIRC there was also a talk or manual/PDF awhile back giving more explanations, but I can't find it.

  2. The most valuable books I saw in this thread were books that were obviously academic works, that I never heard of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22092108 Conversely there are a lot of books that count as popular…

  3. I've seen obvious instances of quantification of software engineering – obvious in hindsight, anyhow. Capacity planning and network performance get strong mathematical treatments in textbooks such as "Computer…

  4. Business books are prone to hype. Supposedly we are reading them for business. What books gave you what you needed to make more money?

  5. After trying to break into computer science at my school, unsuccessfully, and after having a go at completing the math prerequisites, I don't think I have the intellectual strength for a full CS program. I'm…

  6. So unfortunately I'm not doing too well in my CS program, particularly in the mathematics. I enjoy the intellectual engagement but I have difficulty keeping pace with a full course load. At the same time, programming is…

  7. In "Concepts, Techniques, Methods of Computer Science" (CTM), Peter Van Roy takes the approach of teaching programming not as one paradigm or another, but rather a hierarchy of features for which each new feature set or…