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Open-source and crowd-sourced book listing

42 points by eduardsi 8y ago

nwhatt 8y ago
Effective Java is somehow rated higher than Clean Code.
- nindalf 8y ago
  Have you read Effective Java? I'm not fond of Java but Effective Java is a good book. Can't speak for others but I learned more from it than Clean Code.
  - akerro 8y ago
    Completely agree, I found Clean Code highly overrated, Effective Java and Java Concurrency in Practice teach more valuable lessons, even not for Java developers.
    - nindalf 8y ago
      +1 on JCIP, although it's a bit out of date. The best practices for Concurrency in Java involve CompletableFutures and it's lambda based API.
nindalf 8y ago
Strongly agree with the high rating for Designing Data Intensive Applications. It's a fantastic book that covers most of the important principles in architecture. I wish this website had more filters. I'd like to filter out books with fewer than 10 reviews. As it is right now, it's a bit noisy.
kriro 8y ago
Why is there an NLP book on the list (on page 5)? And no not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. I read a bit about NLP on the train a couple of years ago, did some research and came away with the verdict "pseudoscience". Would be interested to hear why it is considered relevant for developers/what I'm missing. Also I see a few OOP books, all of them great, but I think my favorite to this day is still "Object-Oriented Software Construction" which is not on the list :)
- eduardsi 8y ago
  Hey! NLP book is under communication – it's a great communication advice. Maybe other books are pseudoscience, I don't know. You can contribute missing book here: https://github.com/sizovs/mustread-data https://github.com/sizovs/mustread-data
anc84 8y ago
I am a bit sad that you slap your own Amazon affiliate tag on the outgoing links. Crowd-sourcing for your own monetary benefit is quite meh in my book. Please consider following a model like https://www.bookzilla.de/ https://www.bookzilla.de/ who forward 100% of their affiliate income to the Free Software Foundation. Maybe you could donate to the many FOSS projects your site builds upon?

42 points by eduardsi 8y ago

nwhatt 8y ago

Effective Java is somehow rated higher than Clean Code.

nindalf 8y ago
Have you read Effective Java? I'm not fond of Java but Effective Java is a good book. Can't speak for others but I learned more from it than Clean Code.
- akerro 8y ago
  Completely agree, I found Clean Code highly overrated, Effective Java and Java Concurrency in Practice teach more valuable lessons, even not for Java developers.
  - nindalf 8y ago
    +1 on JCIP, although it's a bit out of date. The best practices for Concurrency in Java involve CompletableFutures and it's lambda based API.

nindalf 8y ago

Strongly agree with the high rating for Designing Data Intensive Applications. It's a fantastic book that covers most of the important principles in architecture. I wish this website had more filters. I'd like to filter out books with fewer than 10 reviews. As it is right now, it's a bit noisy.

kriro 8y ago

Why is there an NLP book on the list (on page 5)? And no not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. I read a bit about NLP on the train a couple of years ago, did some research and came away with the verdict "pseudoscience". Would be interested to hear why it is considered relevant for developers/what I'm missing. Also I see a few OOP books, all of them great, but I think my favorite to this day is still "Object-Oriented Software Construction" which is not on the list :)

eduardsi 8y ago
Hey! NLP book is under communication – it's a great communication advice. Maybe other books are pseudoscience, I don't know. You can contribute missing book here: https://github.com/sizovs/mustread-data https://github.com/sizovs/mustread-data

anc84 8y ago

I am a bit sad that you slap your own Amazon affiliate tag on the outgoing links. Crowd-sourcing for your own monetary benefit is quite meh in my book. Please consider following a model like https://www.bookzilla.de/ https://www.bookzilla.de/ who forward 100% of their affiliate income to the Free Software Foundation. Maybe you could donate to the many FOSS projects your site builds upon?