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by marai2 10y ago
I too have been wanting to scratch this same itch -- getting book recommendations from a slightly more informed user base then the typical amazon recommendations -- so I created an HN clone for such book lists and recommendations. http:&#x
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by marai2 11y ago
I really liked the "Go Programming Language" book http://www.gopl.io/ Even though it's a book about learning the language and not about some framework or doing particular projects in it - the examples in the
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by marai2 11y ago
While not a cost estimate, one of the pages linked off of the article ("sample queries") says this: "NOTE that the complete fulltext of all Internet Archive books over these 122 years reaches nearly half a terabyte, so a sing
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by marai2 11y ago
Also Related: Thanks for setting up that curated list. I'll definitely be going through it to get recommendations. I got tired of seeing such recommendations being asked repeatedly and then disappear on HN so I created this: http:&#x
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by marai2 11y ago
You can email me if you're still having issues, otherwise it requires one of the following classes A-Z, a-z, 0-9.
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by marai2 11y ago
A Hacker News for Books! http://www.vivalabooks.com/
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I don't mean to hijack this thread, but I too wasn't interested in history at all until I read this book: The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power ( http://www.amazon.com/Prize-Epic-Quest-Money-Power&
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by marai2 11y ago
Not new - but I had the most fun and most progress with learning French with https://www.duolingo.com/ My kids got into it as well and at one point we would all sit together and do one lesson a day.
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That looks very neat! I will definitely take it out for a spin to get some ideas! Thanks!
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Thanks for the feedback! I've adjusted the colors so hopefully the contrast is a little better. I was trying to differentiate book categories that have not yet had any discussions in them. The idea being that if people are interested i
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Clickable link: http://www.vivalabooks.com
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Show HN: Hacker News clone for books
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My dad died last year at the age of 74. The first time I heard stories of Dracula and my earliest memory of him mentioning anything related to cinema - was him telling me (when I was 7 or 8) that the great actor Christopher Lee played Dracu
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by marai2 12y ago
Going back to the "breadth" recommendations, if someone wants a real appetizing sushi sampler of the breadth of Mathematics, I would highly recommend "The Joy of X" http://www.amazon.com/Joy-Guided-Tour-M
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Can someone with no electronics background at all pick up this book? If not what would be a good prerequisite book?
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The SICP picture language is based on the same paper by Peter Henderson. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-15.html...
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by marai2 12y ago
Wow, what an awesome synopsis of recent activity in the Haskell ecosystem. Other ecosystems should feal jealous. Fabulous effort on your behalf. Thank you!
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Erlang and OTP life described as Tumblr memes and gifs(thisotplife.tumblr.com)
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That's a nice example of some elegant and readable code.
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Original Superman Comic, Action Comics #1 on sale at eBay(marketwatch.com)
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John Oliver: Net Neutrality [video](youtube.com)
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Yes. Atleast that's what's worked for me. Once I started writing compact notes to help me remember stuff, I found that I still forgot that stuff after a while but re-reading the notes was a great optimization trick in re-learning&
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by marai2 12y ago
Trying to learn Machine Learning stuff I realized I didn't remember much Linear Algebra from my college days. Im also a beginner in Haskell. So I decided to crack open my Linear Algebra book and start implementing what I was reading in
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The power of the US cable barons must be challenged(ft.com)
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This is a very readable online book on networking and sockets: http://beej.us/guide/bgnet/output/html/multipage/index.html Talk about understanding the sockets API ;-) here's the content sectio
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Functions as dance(media11.dropshots.com)
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Ask HN: open source projects that have inspired your design/architecture?
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I thought that article was a great read, combining historical perspective with technical detail that wasn't glossed over.
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The source is a nice example of pretty clean looking elisp.