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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Jul 12, 2010 - Jul 19, 2010

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Gulag: A History cover

1. Gulag: A History

by Anne Applebaum

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The Black Swan cover

2. The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition cover

3. Differentiate or Die: Survival in Our Era of Killer Competition

by Jack Trout

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography cover

4. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography

by Simon Singh

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Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics) cover

5. Naive Set Theory (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

by P. R. Halmos

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Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications cover

6. Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications

by Kenneth H. Rosen

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JavaScript: The Good Parts cover

7. JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford, Ke luo ke fu de, Yan xue kun, Douglas Crockford

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Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners cover

8. Database in Depth: Relational Theory for Practitioners

by C.J. Date

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Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind cover

9. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

by Jack Trout, Al Ries

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Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software cover

10. Linux Enterprise Cluster: Build a Highly Available Cluster with Commodity Hardware and Free Software

by Karl Kopper

Java¿ Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE¿ Platform cover

11. Java¿ Message Service API Tutorial and Reference: Messaging for the J2EE¿ Platform

by Mark Hapner

Hadoop: The Definitive Guide cover

12. Hadoop: The Definitive Guide

by Tom White

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Scalable Internet Architectures cover

13. Scalable Internet Architectures

by Theo Schlossnagle

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High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI (Nutshell Handbooks) cover

14. High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI (Nutshell Handbooks)

by Joseph D Sloan

Enterprise JMS Programming (M&T Books) cover

15. Enterprise JMS Programming (M&T Books)

by Shaun Terry

Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters cover

16. Linux Clustering: Building and Maintaining Linux Clusters

by Charles Bookman

Java Message Service cover

17. Java Message Service

by Mark Richards, Richard Monson-Haefel, David Chappell

Pro Hadoop (Expert's Voice in Open Source) cover

18. Pro Hadoop (Expert's Voice in Open Source)

by Jason Venner

Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age cover

19. Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age

by Paul Graham

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work cover

20. Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

by Matthew B. Crawford

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Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach With C cover

21. Data Structures: A Pseudocode Approach With C

by Richard F. Gilberg, Behrouz A. Forouzan

C Traps and Pitfalls cover

22. C Traps and Pitfalls

by Andrew Koenig

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Programming Language Pragmatics cover

23. Programming Language Pragmatics

by Michael Scott

C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition) cover

24. C: A Reference Manual (5th Edition)

by Samuel P. Harbison, Guy L. Steele

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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

25. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

by Charles Petzold

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Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition cover

26. Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, 3rd Edition

by Michael Dawson

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto cover

27. Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

by Chuck Klosterman

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Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman cover

28. Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

by Yvon Chouinard

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Against Intellectual Monopoly cover

29. Against Intellectual Monopoly

by Michele Boldrin, David K. Levine

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Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life cover

30. Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life

by Jane Jacobs

Java Concurrency in Practice cover

31. Java Concurrency in Practice

by Brian Goetz

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How To Buy a Business cover

32. How To Buy a Business

by Richard A. Joseph, Anna M. Nekoranec, Carl H. Steffens

Effective Java (2nd Edition) cover

33. Effective Java (2nd Edition)

by Joshua Bloch

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An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems) cover

34. An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms (Complex Adaptive Systems)

by Melanie Mitchell

Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio cover

35. Guitar Aerobics: A 52-Week, One-lick-per-day Workout Program for Developing, Improving and Maintaining Guitar Technique Bk/online audio

by Troy Nelson

Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days cover

36. Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days

by Jessica Livingston

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Core Java, Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition) cover

37. Core Java, Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition)

by Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell

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Java: The Good Parts cover

38. Java: The Good Parts

by Jim Waldo

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Solaris 10 ZFS Essentials cover

39. Solaris 10 ZFS Essentials

by Scott Watanabe

Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) cover

40. Foundations of Multidimensional and Metric Data Structures (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)

by Hanan Samet

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Programming for the Java¿ Virtual Machine cover

41. Programming for the Java¿ Virtual Machine

by Joshua Engel

Data Structures Using C cover

42. Data Structures Using C

by Aaron M. Tenenbaum, Yedidyah Langsam, Moshe Augenstein

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Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World cover

43. Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World

by Joe Armstrong

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Erlang Programming cover

44. Erlang Programming

by Francesco Cesarini

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Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within cover

45. Often Wrong, Never in Doubt: Unleash the Business Rebel Within

by Donny Deutsch

Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job cover

46. Don't Send a Resume: And Other Contrarian Rules to Help Land a Great Job

by Jeffrey J. Fox

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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies cover

47. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies

by James Charles Collins, Jerry I. Porras

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The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right cover

48. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

by Atul Gawande

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Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach cover

49. Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach

by Tom DeMarco

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Winning Through Intimidation cover

50. Winning Through Intimidation

by Robert J. Ringer

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Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace cover

51. Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace

by Ricardo Semler

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The Best American Essays 2007 cover

52. The Best American Essays 2007

by David Foster Wallace, Robert Atwan

Objects First With Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ (4th Edition) cover

53. Objects First With Java: A Practical Introduction Using BlueJ (4th Edition)

by David John Barnes, Michael Kölling