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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between Mar 24, 2014 - Mar 31, 2014

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Dissecting DOS: A Code-Level Look at the DOS Operating System cover

1. Dissecting DOS: A Code-Level Look at the DOS Operating System

by Michael Podanoffsky
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The Deadliest Game: Net Force 02 (Net Force YA) cover

2. The Deadliest Game: Net Force 02 (Net Force YA)

by Tom Clancy, Steve Pieczenik, Bill McCay
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation cover

3. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

by Jon Gertner
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Snow Crash cover

4. Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson
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Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World cover

5. Pioneer Programmer: Jean Jennings Bartik and the Computer that Changed the World

by Jean Bartik, Jon T. Rickman, Kim D. Todd
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us cover

6. Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

by Daniel H. Pink
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Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series) cover

7. Effective JavaScript: 68 Specific Ways to Harness the Power of JavaScript (Effective Software Development Series)

by David Herman
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Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century cover

8. Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree
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The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World cover

9. The Quickening: Today's Trends, Tomorrow's World

by Art Bell
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Sex and the Origins of Death cover

10. Sex and the Origins of Death

by William R. Clark
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Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go cover

11. Kage's Secret Chronicles of Handicap Go

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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age cover

12. Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age

by Michael A. Hiltzik
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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing cover

13. The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing

by Martin Davis
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Managing Projects with GNU Make cover

14. Managing Projects with GNU Make

by Robert Mecklenburg, Robert William Mecklenburg
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15. Computer Lib/Dream Machines, Revised Edition

by Theodor H. Nelson
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Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied cover

16. Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied

by Andrei Alexandrescu
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How Economics Shapes Science cover

17. How Economics Shapes Science

by Paula Stephan
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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition cover

18. UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 4th Edition

by Evi Nemeth
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The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future cover

19. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future

by Chris Guillebeau
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Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas cover

20. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas

by Seymour A. Papert
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The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition cover

21. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition

by Donald C. Shoup
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Reflecting Fires cover

22. Reflecting Fires

by Thomas Claburn
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The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work cover

23. The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work

by Shawn Achor
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers cover

24. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz
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Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns cover

25. Seven Seconds or Less: My Season on the Bench with the Runnin' and Gunnin' Phoenix Suns

by Jack McCallum
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The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, Seventh Edition cover

26. The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers, Seventh Edition

by Robert L. Heilbroner
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Making Things Happen cover

27. Making Things Happen

by Scott Berkun
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Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition) cover

28. Grid Systems in Graphic Design: A Visual Communication Manual for Graphic Designers, Typographers and Three Dimensional Designers (German and English Edition)

by Josef Müller-Brockmann
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