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I have this weird habit where if I sit and read too much about the same topic, I have trouble retaining all of the information I just read. So, I find I can re

I have this weird habit where if I sit and read too much about the same topic, I have trouble retaining all of the information I just read. So, I find I can retain everything better if I read small amounts from multiple books. I sit with a stack of a few books and read chapter out of each. Weird, I know. Here's my current stack: * The C++ Programming Language, 4th Edition (Bjarne Stroustrup) * Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14 (Scott Meyers) * Interactive Computer Graphics: A Top-Down Approach with WebGL (7th Edition) (Edward Angel & Dave Schreiner) * Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (David Kushner) * Neuromancer (William Gibson) I most recently finished: * Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn't Want You to Know---and What to Do About Them (Cynthia Shapiro) * C++ for dinosaurs (Nick Economidis) I am highly anticipating the final(?) book of the Ender's Game Series by Orson Scott Card titled Shadows Alive. I just learned about and probably will buy: * The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker)

perdunov 12y ago
You're probably downvoted because of the multiple mentions of C++. If you'd mentioned Haskell, you would be upvoted.
- ndesaulniers 12y ago
  haha thank you, I was scratching my head as to the downvotes. HN is weird. I do recognize that it's difficult to maintain a healthy online community, and that if you forced people to comment when downvoting, you still don't necessarily get constructive criticism. s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ?
  - golergka 12y ago
    > s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ? Or vim. Any books on neovim yet?
    - codygman 12y ago
      Why would there be a book on neovim? It's just vim with a different plugin system allowing you to create plugins from any language via rpc and improved architecture right?
      - golergka 12y ago
        Woosh.
marpstar 12y ago
I thought for sure I was the only person who hops between 5 books at a time. I'm reading: * Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans) * F# Deep Dives (Tomas Petricek and Phillip Trelford) * PostgreSQL: Up and Running AND PostGIS in Action, 2nd Edition (both by Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu) I'm eyeballing Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki (1999) and a few others for after I finished the Postgres books.
mjhoy 12y ago
Masters of Doom I read recently and devoured it in about two days. I am apparently starved for stories like that. I don't even like video games!
- partomniscient 12y ago
  Have you read: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy? http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers Artificial Life is also great and has a kind of similar feel to it too.
- pelf 12y ago
  Exactly like me! :) I couldn't put it down to save my life.
dominic_cocch 12y ago
Loved Masters of Doom. I reread that one every once in a while as sort of reminder. It's an easy enough read that rereading it is fun.

perdunov 12y ago

You're probably downvoted because of the multiple mentions of C++. If you'd mentioned Haskell, you would be upvoted.

ndesaulniers 12y ago
haha thank you, I was scratching my head as to the downvotes. HN is weird. I do recognize that it's difficult to maintain a healthy online community, and that if you forced people to comment when downvoting, you still don't necessarily get constructive criticism. s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ?
- golergka 12y ago
  > s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ? Or vim. Any books on neovim yet?
  - codygman 12y ago
    Why would there be a book on neovim? It's just vim with a different plugin system allowing you to create plugins from any language via rpc and improved architecture right?
    - golergka 12y ago
      Woosh.

marpstar 12y ago

I thought for sure I was the only person who hops between 5 books at a time. I'm reading: * Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Eric Evans) * F# Deep Dives (Tomas Petricek and Phillip Trelford) * PostgreSQL: Up and Running AND PostGIS in Action, 2nd Edition (both by Regina O. Obe and Leo S. Hsu) I'm eyeballing Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki (1999) and a few others for after I finished the Postgres books.

mjhoy 12y ago

Masters of Doom I read recently and devoured it in about two days. I am apparently starved for stories like that. I don't even like video games!

partomniscient 12y ago
Have you read: Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy? http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers Artificial Life is also great and has a kind of similar feel to it too.
pelf 12y ago
Exactly like me! :) I couldn't put it down to save my life.

dominic_cocch 12y ago

Loved Masters of Doom. I reread that one every once in a while as sort of reminder. It's an easy enough read that rereading it is fun.