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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Nov 22, 2010 - Nov 29, 2010

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Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed cover

1. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed

by Ben R. Rich, Leo Janos

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) cover

2. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)

by Frederick P. Brooks (Jr.)

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Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) cover

3. Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers)

by Andrew Hunt

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PHP: The Good Parts cover

4. PHP: The Good Parts

by Peter MacIntyre

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Java: The Good Parts cover

5. Java: The Good Parts

by Jim Waldo

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Prefactoring cover

6. Prefactoring

by Ken Pugh, Kenneth Pugh

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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The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity cover

8. The Great Reset: How New Ways of Living and Working Drive Post-Crash Prosperity

by Richard Florida

What Is Life? cover

9. What Is Life?

by Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan

Microprocessors: A Programmers View (Computing That Works) cover

10. Microprocessors: A Programmers View (Computing That Works)

by Robert B. K. Dewar, Matthew Smosna

Understanding UNIX/LINUX Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice cover

11. Understanding UNIX/LINUX Programming: A Guide to Theory and Practice

by Bruce Molay

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C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software cover

12. C Interfaces and Implementations: Techniques for Creating Reusable Software

by David R. Hanson

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Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a new preface cover

13. Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, With a new preface

by Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java cover

14. Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java

by Carlton Egremont

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Programming from the Ground Up cover

15. Programming from the Ground Up

by Jonathan Bartlett, Dominick Bruno

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The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles cover

16. The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles

by Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken

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Gödel's Proof cover

17. Gödel's Proof

by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman

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The First Computers--History and Architectures (History of Computing) cover

18. The First Computers--History and Architectures (History of Computing)

by Raul Rojas, Ulf Hashagen

Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science cover

19. Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science

by Andy Clark

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software cover

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

by Charles Petzold

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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author cover

21. The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition--with a new Introduction by the Author

by Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward Richard Dawkins

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An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology) cover

22. An Introduction to Bioinformatics Algorithms (Computational Molecular Biology)

by Neil C. Jones, Pavel A. Pevzner

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The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World cover

23. The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

by Ken Alder

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The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge cover

24. The Great Bridge: The Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge

by David McCullough

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