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Ask HN: What did you buy after reading about it here?
A lot of the books I've bought in recent years came from recommendations here. Usually they weren't even in recommendation threads, but just randomly coming up in comments.
Some are ones you see coming up a lot: The Mom Test, Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Refactoring UI, Don't Make Me Think.
But then some were just way off my radar, like the writings of sociologist Edward T. Hall or Stephen Baxter's sci-fi.
I also bought a lifetime subscription for an app I found here, but mostly it was books.
What did you buy after reading a recommendation on HN?
- themodelplumber 4y agoThe Ware Tetrology
- mindcrime 4y agoI'm sure there are a number, and I probably can't remember most of them off-hand. But a few come to mind: The Pyramid Principle The Mom Test Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming -- this one so recently that my copy hasn't even arrived yet. I think I found out about it literally like maybe 3 days ago or so. The Master and Margarita Solaris The Gervais Principle Not sure if I've ever bought anything besides books based off of an HN recommendation or not. Thinking about it, I'd guess probably at least once, but if so I can't recall what it was now.
- eimrine 4y agoI have bought SICP and Mythical Man-Month. These are not the only ones I have bought, but to tell the truth others were not worth of it.
- ss108 4y ago1491. Highlight recommend it, as well as the sequel 1493. The fact that the stuff in those books isn't common knowledge we all learn in history in school is quite disappointing. Probably a couple books related to software as well, but the above really stand out.
- pussycat 4y agoA purism laptop and an aeron chair.
- no-dr-onboard 4y agoThis is the most HN response in the thread.
- guiambros 4y agoCrafting Interpreters [1] [1] https://craftinginterpreters.com/ https://craftinginterpreters.com/
- toomuchtodo 4y agoAviron row machine. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905467 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25905467
- mellowagain 4y agoThe Field Guide to Understanding 'Human Error' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31034487 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31034487