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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 6, 2019 - May 13, 2019

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Showing 1 - 36 of 36 books

Working Effectively with Legacy Code cover

1. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

by Michael C. Feathers

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Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure cover

2. Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

by Kelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns, Joe Beda

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The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire cover

3. The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by WikiLeaks

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4. I Am Football: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

by Zlatan Ibrahimovic

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The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing) cover

5. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

by Kees Doets, Jan Eijck

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The Design of Everyday Things (The MIT Press) cover

6. The Design of Everyday Things (The MIT Press)

by Donald A. Norman

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Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us cover

7. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

by Dan Lyons

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Calculus and Analytic Geometry: With Supplementary Problems, Classic Edition cover

8. Calculus and Analytic Geometry: With Supplementary Problems, Classic Edition

by George Brinton Thomas

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Programming the SIMPL Way - Second Edition cover

9. Programming the SIMPL Way - Second Edition

by John Collins, Robert Findlay

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Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work cover

10. Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

by Steven Kotler, Jamie Wheal

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Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python cover

11. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python

by Joel Grus

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12. Calculus, 4th edition

by Michael Spivak

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software cover

13. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

by Scott Rosenberg

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General Systems: A Unique System to Manage Learning; Public Schools Should Learn to Ski cover

14. General Systems: A Unique System to Manage Learning; Public Schools Should Learn to Ski

by Dr Steve Rubin

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15. Calculus Made Easy

by Silvanus P. Thompson, Martin Gardner

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The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History cover

16. The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

by Josh Dean

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17. McNamara's Folly

by Hamilton Gregory

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy cover

18. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

by Jenny Odell

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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage cover

19. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew

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20. Make Your Own Neural Network

by Tariq Rashid

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The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition cover

21. The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

by Peter Wohlleben

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Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (ACM Press) cover

22. Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (ACM Press)

by Michael James Jackson

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Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 cover

23. Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129

by Norman Polmar, Michael White

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A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir cover

24. A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir

by Arnhild Lauveng

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Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet cover

25. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet

by Ugo Bardi

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iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library) cover

26. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

by Marcel Weiher

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The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts cover

27. The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts

by Salvatore Babones

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28. Analog VLSI and Neural Systems

by Carver Mead

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29. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

by Ilan Pappé, Luis Noriega, Ilan Papeh

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30. On Palestine

by Noam Chomsky, Ilan Pappé

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The Best Books Mentioned On Hacker News between May 6, 2019 - May 13, 2019

Showing 1 - 36 of 36 books

1. Working Effectively with Legacy Code

2. Kubernetes: Up and Running: Dive into the Future of Infrastructure

3. The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

4. I Am Football: Zlatan Ibrahimovic

5. The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming. Second Edition (Texts in Computing)

6. The Design of Everyday Things (The MIT Press)

7. Lab Rats: How Silicon Valley Made Work Miserable for the Rest of Us

8. Calculus and Analytic Geometry: With Supplementary Problems, Classic Edition

9. Programming the SIMPL Way - Second Edition

10. Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

11. Data Science from Scratch: First Principles with Python

12. Calculus, 4th edition

13. Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software

14. General Systems: A Unique System to Manage Learning; Public Schools Should Learn to Ski

15. Calculus Made Easy

16. The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History

17. McNamara's Folly

18. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

19. Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage

20. Make Your Own Neural Network

21. The Hidden Life of Trees: The Illustrated Edition

22. Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (ACM Press)

23. Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129

24. A Road Back from Schizophrenia: A Memoir

25. Extracted: How the Quest for Mineral Wealth Is Plundering the Planet

26. iOS and macOS Performance Tuning: Cocoa, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C, and Swift (Developer's Library)

27. The New Authoritarianism: Trump, Populism, and the Tyranny of Experts

28. Analog VLSI and Neural Systems

29. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

30. On Palestine

31. How You Make the Sale

32. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules

33. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art (Developer Best Practices)

34. The Social Skills Guidebook: Manage Shyness, Improve Your Conversations, and Make Friends, Without Giving Up Who You Are

35. The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition

36. Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) (Voices That Matter)