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by atulatul 8y ago
^ Critic reviews. Positive.
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by atulatul 8y ago
The Martian is already in wishlist. Educated seems interesting. It has critical reviews by Obama and Stephen Fry.
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by atulatul 8y ago
Thanks. Had a look at collection. Many books/courses are not rated yet it seems. But Neil deGrasse Tyson courses, some on music, religion, courses on books like Joyce's Ulysses seem interesting.
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by atulatul 8y ago
Yes... having watched his Cosmos could not agree more about the voice. Plus he has a way of explaining things... If interested, check out Prof. Brian Cox material https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsRvxQzIDNU
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by atulatul 8y ago
TBH all the names here are new to me... What is a good starting point?
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by atulatul 8y ago
Someone recommended his The Story of Philosophy and it's been sitting in my kindle wish list for some time. Anyway, just now listened to the sample (narrated by Grover Gardner). Did not know about the narrator. Gardner seems to be hav
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by atulatul 8y ago
Liked those. Plus his reading of Sherlock Holmes.
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Ask HN: Which audiobooks did/do you like?
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by atulatul 8y ago
Overall liked the original post. But also liked what you said. But here are a couple of Martin Fowler quotes (from his Refactoring book) I tend to follow: “A heuristic we follow is that whenever we feel the need to comment something, we wri
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by atulatul 8y ago
I think it became more about users and less about content. What was your first crush? What was the most scary film you watched? these kind of questions are more about users and users having a forum than about knowledge. Fact based, impartia
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by atulatul 8y ago
-- switch on integers/enums Strings in switch Statements: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/technotes/guides/langu...
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India Sweeps Top Ten in List of World's Fastest-Growing Cities(bloomberg.com)
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Ask HN: Sapiens: What are some theories, opinions contrary to Sapiens?
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by atulatul 8y ago
This reminds me of the discussion(s) on BBC QI (Quite Interesting) about 'how many moons does the earth have'. A video from QI official channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=7qZWM8Aatb8 And a compi
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by atulatul 8y ago
That's from Sapiens, right?
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Please remove if it is a repost. Reminds me of this Steve Yegge post: Why I left Google to join Grab https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-gr...
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Toyota to buy $1B stake in Grab(thehindu.com)
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by atulatul 9y ago
Interesting article. Not written in the same way but an interesting earlier HN post on similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8877737 -- I think Indians(maybe Asians) get this detachment philosophy as a cultu
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by atulatul 9y ago
Wow, that's a great story.
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Dr Dobb's articles below reflect a somewhat similar feeling Just Let Me Code http://www.drdobbs.com/tools/just-let-me-code/240168735 Getting Back To Coding http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-
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Ask HN: Any Feedback about Mac OS High Sierra?
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Short stories from Nocturnes are good as well.
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Yes. It is a good one. For me India: A Wounded Civilization by Naipaul was even better. It is also from his India trilogy. I have read it a couple of times and even today I read a few pages. Highly recommended if you are open minded. A few
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by atulatul 9y ago
Thanks.
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:) I was rather hoping that reading a single page (instead of a couple of pages) and then stopping would qualify. Anyway, what I meant was that the plan was tentative. (I have read Guns, Germs and Steel and a few reviews seemed to liken Sap
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by atulatul 9y ago
Would you care to add a few lines about Sapiens? Plan to read it. But only tentatively.
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by atulatul 9y ago
Update: added a few lines about the books than just a name listing From the ones I read in 2017, I would highly recommend (non-IT): 1. The hidden life of trees- Peter Wohlleben Why forest trees are different than the ones you plant, how the
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Ask HN: Which books do you plan to read this holiday season?
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Thanks. Going to add it right away
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The tree reminded me of Octotree for git. It is nice.

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