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Ask HN: Best Books to Read Develop Your Career?
12 points by ahalbert 3y ago|5 comments
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by ahalbert 3y ago
Inertia, I guess - I'd have to get it set up and all and vim works fine for me now.
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by ahalbert 3y ago
The author thinks that porn literacy is a good thing, but she notes that it's difficult to teach students to read texts you can't show them.
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The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century(ahalbert.com)
62 points by ahalbert 3y ago|83 comments
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Fast Joins in Apache Beam(ahalbert.com)
1 points by ahalbert 3y ago|0 comments
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by ahalbert 3y ago
My blog: https://ahalbert.com/ I just got back to public writing, but I like to share summaries of the books I read. My most recent post is the secret history of cold war submarine espionage: https://ahalbert.com
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by ahalbert 3y ago
Yes. I summarize books I read and share what I learned.
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by ahalbert 3y ago
It's ok. It's quite long and there's a lot of stories.
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by ahalbert 3y ago
That's what I said in the article.
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by ahalbert 3y ago
As far as my favorite poltical biographies go, I think the ones that gave me the most understanding of politics was the Robert A Caro biographies, "The Power Broker" and "The Years of Lyndon Johnson".
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage(ahalbert.com)
6 points by ahalbert 3y ago|6 comments
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It's Our Turn to Eat: Corruption in Modern Kenya(ahalbert.com)
3 points by ahalbert 3y ago|0 comments
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by ahalbert 3y ago
I don't know, but I wrote nearly 3000 words on the last book review I did. I'd say I spend less time than 90 minutes per chapter. I'm also sharing the reviews, which I find the most rewarding part.
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by ahalbert 3y ago
I do it on my college alum slack channel, but I recently wrote one up that made it to the front page of HN: https://ahalbert.com/reviews/2023/06/04/the_culture_map.html I took some inspiration from the b
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by ahalbert 3y ago
I recently started writing reviews of each book I read. I found it helps me retain the contents of the book and often people give positive feedback about what they learned from my review.
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by ahalbert 3y ago
I love using Awk, the only thing I miss is that it can't handle complex csv files. Does anyone know how to handle quoted CSV strings like > "foo","bar,baz"
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by ahalbert 3y ago
I'm not a biologist, but I know from other biologist that is often difficult to cultivate cells in a lab. Kudos to him for mastering such a difficult art
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by ahalbert 3y ago
When will the model be available?