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Sounds good. Blocked by my work firewall though. A few years ago I found an article that was something like '100 short books everyone should read before they'r
by Tycho 5y ago
Sounds good. Blocked by my work firewall though.
A few years ago I found an article that was something like '100 short books everyone should read before they're 40'. It was a mix of fiction and non-fiction. I've never been able to find it again! But I really liked the list because these are books you can consume in a few hours and may be life changing.
I remember a few of the titles: Games People Play, Meditations, The Prince, The Art of War. (I suppose it may have been non-fiction only, although I think The Awakening may have been on there.)
Wish I could find the link again.
- ZeroGravitas 5y agoIf it was Oliver Sacks' Awakenings then it is non-fiction, though it did get turned into a movie.
- Tycho 5y agoDifferent book - Kate Chopin
- Rd6n6 5y agoI don’t understand how software engineers get away with browsing the internet for fun at work when nobody else can
- themodelplumber 5y agoSounds more like personal development than fun?
- sillysaurusx 5y agoThat's a bit like saying watching porn is more for personal development than fun. Perhaps you'll learn something, but it's incidental. I've learned a lot from HN. But it wouldn't be good to fool myself into thinking that an employer wants to fund my personal development in this regard. Otherwise, they'd pay me to HN all day. The crux of the issue is that it's impossible to work 8 hours every day. We all invent lies to fill the downtime.
- themodelplumber 5y agoIs all that hyperbole really necessary? Each new sentence seems primed to leak edge and corner cases. Without giving more attention to such a rhetorical blind spot, I wonder how one could imagine they know the crux from the passenger side door.
- sillysaurusx 5y agoWhich sentence is mistaken?
- themodelplumber 5y agoThe one with all the generalizations
- sillysaurusx 5y agoIf it’s mistaken, it should be easy to explain why. Otherwise I’m inclined to believe it’s merely an uncomfortable truth. Would your employer pay you to HN all day? If not, precisely how much of your day are they comfortable with you HN’ing? Are you sure it’s officially approved?
- kritiko 5y agoThere’s often good intel on here that I have not been exposed to on other sources. Obviously spending 40 hours a week reading HN and getting into politics arguments on here is a waste, but there’s plenty of relevant news for most folks in tech if you stick to those topics.
- loopz 5y agoDo you collect stats, how assertions line up with facts? Otherwise, what may seem likely and catchy, might just as well be opinionated, unsubstantiated and patchy.
- chadcmulligan 5y agohttps://xkcd.com/303/ https://xkcd.com/303/ Waiting for Compiles is the usual, there's a lot of waiting in software - waiting for compiles, scripts to run, someone else to do something.
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