Comment by ndesaulniers | Hacker News Reader

Comment by ndesaulniers | Hacker News Reader

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)

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!

Have you read:

Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

by Steven Levy?

http://www.stevenlevy.com/index.php/books/hackers

Artificial Life is also great and has a kind of similar feel to it too.

Exactly like me! :) I couldn't put it down to save my life.

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.

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.

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

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/ ?

> s/Haskell/today's new JS framework/ ?

Or vim. Any books on neovim yet?

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?

Woosh.

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